MEXICO CITY, Sep. 3 (Xinhua) -- Mexico head coach Gerardo Martino will miss his team's next two World Cup qualifiers after undergoing eye surgery, the country's football federation said on Friday. The 58-year-old Argentine underwent a procedure to re...

NEW YORK, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- Oil prices declined on Friday as market sentiment was dented by a disappointing U.S. jobs report. The West Texas Intermediate for October delivery lost 70 cents to settle at 69.29 U.S. dollars a barrel on the New York Me...

California [US], September 3 (ANI): A new UC Berkeley research suggested that there is no need to agonize over the long number of hours tweens and teens spend scrolling through and posting to Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and other social media sharing...

TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said he did not intend to run in the upcoming leadership election for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), effectively giving up the premiership, NHK reported Friday. The LDP is slated to start ca...

BEIJING, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- The following are the central parity rates of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, against 24 major currencies announced on Friday by the China Foreign Exchange Trade System: Currency Unit Central parity rate in yu...

LOS ANGELES -- Two people were injured in shootings Thursday afternoon near schools in Los Angeles, California. The Los Angeles School Police Department initially tweeted around 2 p.m. local time that police officers were "responding to reports of sh...

Sixteen years to the day that Hurricane Katrina made landfall, Hurricane Ida struck at Port Fourchon, La., on Aug. 29, as a Category 4 hurricane with 240 kilometres per hour winds. Given the date and location of the area affected, Katrina and Ida com...

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Thursday said he would write to his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden next week to push for his proposal to grant temporary visas to Central American migrants, along with othe...

Washington [US] September 2 (ANI/Sputnik) - Facebook said it helped evacuate Afghan journalists to Mexico from Kabul, alongside the tech giant's employees, partners and their families, according to a statement seen by media. "In the process of assist...