BEIJING (AP) ― Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was to arrive in Beijing on Monday on an official visit to boost business and political ties between the rising powers with booming economies, despite differences over Syria and China’s ethnic Uighur region.The visit is the first to China in 27 years by a Turkish premier and follows a February trip by Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping to Ankara and Istanbul, where the countries signed deals worth billions of dollars.The official Xinhua N

Sony will cut 10,000 jobs worldwide this year as it attempts to carry out sweeping reforms aimed at reviving the iconic but loss-making Japanese electronics giant, the Nikkei business daily said Monday.About half the planned job cuts are part of a restructuring of Sony's chemical unit as well as operations tied to its small and medium-sized liquid crystal display panels, the Nikkei said in its onl

Pope Benedict XVI implored the Syrian regime Sunday to heed international demands to end the bloodshed and expressed hope that the joy of Easter will comfort Christian communities suffering because of their faith.Benedict, struggling with hoarseness and looking tired, celebrated Mass on Christianity’s most joyous holy day on the flower-adorned steps of St. Peter‘s Basilica, before a crowd of faithful that swelled to far more than 100,000 by the end of the 2-hour-long ceremony.Only hours earlier

News anchor Panagiotis Bourchas was bombarded with furious egging during an on-air newscast earlier this week. During an interview with a guest speaker on Greek TV, a crowd of enraged protestors stormed into the set and started tossing eggs and yogurt at the anchor, shouting “fascist!”The attack came after Bourchas hosted a show featuring spokesman from Golden Dawn, a neo-Nazi political organizati

TULSA, Oklahoma (AP) ― Acting on a tip and shadowed by a helicopter, police arrested two men early Sunday in the recent shootings that terrorized Tulsa’s black community and left three people dead and two others critically wounded.Police spokesman Jason Willingham said the two men were arrested at a home just north of Tulsa about 2 a.m. Sunday and were expected to be charged with three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of shooting with intent to kill in the spate of shootings early Fr

A 10-year-old Colombian girl gave birth to a healthy baby girl, doctors said.The mother, only identified as a young girl from Manaure, delivered her daughter, who weighed 5 pounds, by Caesarean section, ABC News reported Friday.“The baby's head needs to come through a bony outlet. But in a young girl, the pelvis may not be ready or big enough to deliver a baby,” said Dr. Kimberly Gecsi, an OB/GYN

As many as 50 people were killed in a suicide car bombing today near a church in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna. “It was a big explosion that shook the whole city,” and about 50 people may have died, Shehu Sani, president of the Civil Rights Congress, said by phone from Kaduna. The explosion occurred about 8:30 a.m. local time near the Assemblies of God Protestant church in the city, Sani sa

North Korea, which is scheduled within days to launch a long-range rocket, has been developing missiles for decades both for what it terms self-defense and as a lucrative export commodity.It says its upcoming launch, sometime between April 12-16, will put a peaceful satellite in orbit. The United States and its allies have condemned what they see as a disguised test of ballistic missile technology in defiance of U.N. resolutions.The North began its program in the late 1970s or early 1980s, when

Nissan Motor Co.’s vehicles will use Intel Corp. microprocessors for in-car information and entertainment systems starting next year, helping the largest chipmaker lessen its reliance on sales to computer makers. Nissan, Japan’s second-largest automaker, presented an Infiniti LE concept car at the New York International Auto Show yesterday that includes a dual-screen display powered by Intel’s Atom chip. Intel Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini has identified the auto industry as an opportuni