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A leak has caused the closure of a crucial pipeline that carries gasoline to the eastern United States, a disruption that threatens to drive up prices and leave service stations without fuel to sell.

Taiwan is about to be soaked by its second severe storm in just three days, with typhoon Malakas forecast to pass by the northern end of the island early on Saturday.

Russia is bleeding cash at an alarming rate.

A suicide attack at a Pakistani mosque in the country's tribal areas killed at least 25 people Friday, an official told CNN.

It's day five of the "reduction of violence" in Syria, and even if the guns haven't fallen entirely silent the death toll among civilians has shown a marked decline. But accusations of bad faith continue to fly in all directions, and the next steps to consolidate the relative quiet are an even greater challenge.

The financial crisis is still haunting Deutsche Bank.

For more than 60 years, European integration has proceeded apace, often muddling through when apparently insoluble problems assailed it.

The man who publicly accused Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte of running a hit squad and personally killing people won't be given state protection.

Simply driving into Aleppo brings home the brutality of Syria's civil war.

A clampdown on Syrian refugees entering Jordan has left 75,000 people stranded in the desert in a no man's land between the countries, cut off from aid for months, Amnesty International says.

Domingos Montagner, one of Brazil's most-loved television stars, drowned Thursday on the set of popular soap opera "Velho Chico."

The Philippines top diplomat has told a forum in Washington that his country "cannot forever be the little brown brothers of America."

Two-hundred bullets fired into an official. A corpse-eating crocodile. A billionaire killed in a lover's tiff.

As Syria's ceasefire largely holds, residents trapped in Aleppo eagerly await crucial aid supplies after months cut off from the rest of the world.

Brazilian prosecutors on Wednesday presented charges of corruption against ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his wife, Marisa Leticia da Silva, according to state-run news agency Agencia Brasil.

The tenuous calm brought to Syria by a US and Russia ceasefire seems to be holding after an agreement by both parties to extend the deal for another 48 hours.

There once was a conservative candidate who promised a new era of economic growth. He promised to get tougher on a neighboring country he viewed as hostile, and he was widely feared by Muslims. He vowed to run the country like a company: efficiently and pro-business.