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Today's biopharma industry has a richer and more exciting late stage pipeline of compelling new therapeutics than its had in years, drawing lots of enthusiasm from analysts and investors. Goldman Sachs (GS) recently publ...

The reaction to the first round of U.S. and European sanctions against the Russian ruling elite was laughter. Declared one of those singled out: Whoever put these sanctions together is a "joker." Indeed, the first set of...

After hours of chewing over how to deal with Russia's annexation of Crimea, EU heads have added a further 12 individuals to their blacklist.

Nine people were killed Thursday in an attack by the Taliban on a luxury hotel in Kabul that is used by United Nations staff and foreign visitors, news reports said, citing police and government officials.

As Ukraine prepares to withdraw all forces from Crimea, Russian troops continue to close in on Ukrainian naval and military strongholds, seizing three warships

Xu Caihou, a retired PLA general and former vice-chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission (CMC), was taken from his sick bed at 301 Military Hospital in Beijing on Saturday by dozens of armed policemen, the S...

First lady Michelle Obama is in China for an official visit to expand Sino-American relations, but she will refrain from talking about political differences.

HONOLULU (AP) -- Honolulu police officers have urged lawmakers to keep an exemption in state law that allows undercover officers to have sex with prostitutes during investigations, touching off a heated debate.     

COCHOAPA EL GRANDE, Mexico (AP) -- On a recent weekday afternoon, half a dozen children crossed the main square on their way home from school in this dusty farming town of 2,600 people high in the pine-covered mountains ...

BEIJING (AP) -- Two children died and another 30 were sickened in a mass poisoning at a kindergarten in southwestern China, authorities said Friday.     

HERMOSILLO, Mexico (AP) -- Seven men were shot to death in an apparent ambush by rival drug traffickers near the Mexico-Arizona border, authorities said Thursday.     

The US has resettled 43 prisoners in 17 countries since Obama took office and has released 38 others to their homelands.

U.S. President Barack Obama appeared on the daytime talk show "Ellen" on Thursday (March 20), where TV host Ellen DeGeneres checked in on him while his wife is traveling in Asia. The playful interview started with a list...

A gunman opened fire on a B15 bus near Marcus Garvey Boulevard and Lafayette Avenue, shooting a 39-year-old passenger in the head.     

BEIJING (AP) -- China is sending three warships and an icebreaker to join the search for possible pieces of a missing Malaysia Airlines plane in the southern Indian Ocean, the government said Friday.     

SEATTLE (AP) -- Investigators trying to learn what caused a fiery helicopter crash near the Space Needle that killed two men on board and burned a third on the ground now have surveillance video footage that shows the ai...

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to have made good on his vow to wipe out Twitter in his country, as Turkish tweeters are reporting that they are unable to access the service.     

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A federal judge in Oregon is denying defense lawyers' efforts to reveal all surveillance information about their client obtained under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.     

(Please note strong language in paragraph 5) By Joseph J. Kolb ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 20

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A Mexican woman who received widespread attention for taking refuge in a Chicago church before she was deported seven years ago is back in the United States, this time with permission.     

(SAN ANTONIO) -- A San Antonio university student killed by a university police officer was shot five times, including a fatal wound to the upper back, during the altercation last year, according to an autopsy report rel...

BRUSSELS (AP) -- European Union nations on Thursday agreed on a sweeping policy to fight tax evasion after tiny Luxembourg dropped its reservations to new rules which render its secretive banking culture more transparent...