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U.S. crude supplies of last week gained 4.8 million barrels to 490.7 million barrels, 110.7 million barrels more than one year ago, according to the weekly report issued by the U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) Wednesday.

The National Coal Mining Museum for England has marked the closure of Britain’s last working deep-coal mine, Kellingley Colliery in West Yorkshire, by purchasing the final tonne of coal.

The CEO and publisher of the Las Vegas Sun says he welcomes billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his family to the journalism neighbourhood after they confirmed their purchase of Nevada’s largest newspaper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Ukraine stands no chance to win lawsuit on its $3 bln debt to Russia, Deputy Finance Minister Sergey Storchak said on Friday.

The question of Trump came during Putin’s traditional year-end presser, which ran for more than three hours and was carried across Russian TV and radio.

“We are working on a civil aviation agreement and a variety of other things”, said Ambassador Jeffrey DeLaurentis, U.S. embassy in Havana.

The statues up for debate include those of Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia; Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War; P.G.T. Beauregard, the first prominent general of the Confederate States Army;...

Earnings, adjusted for one-time items, came to 54 cents per share, topping the 42 cents per share analysts expected. Darden Restaurants, Inc. has a one year low of $53.38 and a one year high of $75.60.

Finance ministers of the United Nations Security Council have unanimously adopted a resolution created to cut off financing to the self-styled Islamic State.

Xi’s visit to South Africa comes a day after meeting Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe in Harare, where the Chinese leader signed deals worth more than $4 billion, according to Zimbabwean newspapers.

He replaces relatively unknown politician, David van Rooyen, who was installed in place of his predecessor Nhlanhla Nene last week.

A large crowd broke into cheers Thursday after the New Orleans City Council voted to remove four monuments to the Confederacy from prominent places in the city. The City Council also voted to remove statues of P.G.T. Beauregard, a Confederate general, and Jefferson Davis, the...

After six days of stony silence and a brief non-denial denial by casino magnate Sheldon Adelson himself over rumors that he secretly bought the paper last Thursday, the Journal-Review reported online Wednesday night that his son-in-law had orchestrated the sale.

Cruz’s view is arguably a more authentic interpretation of the Ronald Reagan approach to foreign policy (you can think of it as a 21st-century update of Jeane Kirkpatrick’s “Democracies and Double Standards”), but Rubio’s is the current accepted canon.

A separate report from the Review Journal outed Adelson’s son-in-law Patrick Dumont as the orchestrator of the newspaper purchase.