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German companies under pressure to adapt as China challenges them at their own game

New Delhi, Sept. 3 -- The heart of the German economy is making and exporting the big-ticket, complex goods that make global business run: everything from cars and locomotives to factory machinery, ai... Read More


The Venice Film Festival opens with a Rupert Murdoch film, George Clooney and plenty of geopolitics

New Delhi, Sept. 3 -- George Clooney and Danny Boyle are helping kick off the Venice Film Festival in style Wednesday on the Lido. Clooney, a festival mainstay, is receiving a lifetime achievement awa... Read More


Italy has started exporting a delicacy prized abroad, reviled at home

New Delhi, Sept. 3 -- Italian fishermen for two years incinerated most of the invasive Atlantic blue crabs caught in the Po River Delta south of Venice. Few Italians had an appetite for the alien pred... Read More


Here's a look at 'reach' election races where Democrats hope to pull off House upsets

New Delhi, Sept. 3 -- They aren't toss-up races. Not even close. But Democrats are dreaming of pulling off upsets in what might be called "reach" House districts, where Republicans usually win and li... Read More


As climate change warms the Himalayas, disasters like the Nepal floods are becoming more frequent

New Delhi, Sept. 3 -- When a wall of water, rocks and mud tore through her remote village in Nepal last week, Pema Tamang and her neighbors fled uphill to a Buddhist shrine that had been rebuilt the p... Read More


Mourners file into a church in Haiti where gangs killed dozens of people in latest rampage

New Delhi, Sept. 3 -- More than 100 mourners attended funerals Wednesday inside a church where gangs recently executed more than 30 people in an attack that shook the troubled country. The funerals w... Read More


Ex-Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and wife seek to end drug charges case on immunity grounds

New Delhi, Sept. 3 -- Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife asked a judge on Wednesday to dismiss the drug trafficking indictment against them on the grounds that they have immunity ... Read More


Iran fires on its Gulf neighbors, retaliating for US strikes after a wedding was hit

New Delhi, Sept. 3 -- Iran fired on U.S. allies in the Gulf early Wednesday following a night of American bombardment that Iranian state media says included a deadly strike on a wedding party. Sirens... Read More


Pattaya, once Thailand's 'Sin City,' beckons weary sailors from the USS Abraham Lincoln

New Delhi, Sept. 2 -- There's no getting around the fact that Thailand's seaside resort of Pattaya has a lingering reputation for sex tourism, even though that's only part of the story for the city th... Read More


PM Modi meets Putin in. Bishkek

New Delhi, Sept. 2 -- Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi met the President of the Russian Federation, H.E. Vladimir Putin, in Bishkek, on the margins of the 26th SCO Summit. This was their first meetin... Read More