BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) _ A train packed with morning commuters slammed into a downtown station on Wednesday, killing 49 people and injuring hundreds as passenger cars crumpled and windows exploded around them. It was Argentina's worst train accident in decades.The cause wasn't immediately dete

BEIRUT (AP)--A French photojournalist and an American working for a British newspaper were killed Wednesday by Syrian government shelling of the opposition stronghold of Homs, France's government said.Activists said at least two other Western journalists were injured in barrages that claimed at leas

NEW YORK (AFP) ― U.S. bookseller Barnes & Noble unveiled a new version of its Nook tablet computer Tuesday, a device with the same $199 price tag as Amazon’s Kindle Fire.The 7-inch Nook Tablet also has eight gigabytes of memory like the tablet released by online retail giant Amazon in November.Apple’s cheapest iPad costs $499. Barnes & Noble released a $249 Nook Tablet with 16 gigabytes of memory in November.Barnes & Noble also said it was slashing the price of its Nook Color electronic book rea

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is proposing to cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 28 percent, and to seek an even lower effective rate for manufacturers, a senior administration official says.In turn, corporations would have to give up dozens of loopholes and subsidies that they now enjoy. Corporations with overseas operations would also face a minimum tax on their foreign earnings.Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Wednesday was to detail aspects of President Barack

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- A U.S. man shot dead four people at a Korean spa outside Atlanta before turning the gun on himself in a grisly murder-suicide, police said early Wednesday.The Norcross Police Department said officers were called to the Su Jung Health Sauna at 8:41 p.m. Tuesday where they found three men and two women, all fatally wounded.“Preliminary investigation revealed that an Asian male entered (the) business and shot four of the victims and then shot himself,” it said in a statement.Fou

WASHINGTON (AP) ― The Obama administration opened the door slightly Tuesday to international military assistance for Syria’s rebels, with officials saying new tactics may have to be explored if President Bashar Assad continues to defy pressure to halt a brutal crackdown on dissenters.In coordinated messages, the White House and State Department said they still hope for a political solution. But faced with the daily onslaught by the Assad regime against Syrian civilians, officials dropped the adm

A Chinese company fighting Apple Inc. over its use of the iPad trademark in China took its complaints to a Shanghai court Wednesday, though it says it is willing to talk about a settlement.Shenzhen Proview Technology claims ownership over the iPad name. Apple says it bought the rights to the name in China and other countries in 2009, but that Proview failed to transfer the rights in mainland China as agreed.Proview accuses Apple of acting dishonestly when it bought rights to the iPad name from i

TRIPOLI (AFP) ― Fierce clashes between two tribes in Libya’s remote southeastern desert have killed more than 100 people over the past 10 days, tribal sources said on Tuesday.At least 113 people from the Toubu tribe and another 23 from the Zwai tribe have been killed in the town of Kufra since fighting erupted on February 12, the sources said.“We are under siege since a week. Since the start of the clashes, 113 people (from our side) have been killed, including six children,” Toubu chief Issa Ab

China will overtake the U.S. as the world’s largest trading nation by 2016, as intra-Asian commerce and rising demand from emerging markets boost shipments, according to HSBC Holdings Plc.Trade in China and the Asia-Pacific will grow at an annualized pace almost twice as fast as the world average over the next five years, driven by shipments within the region and expanded ties with Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa, HSBC said in a global trade report issued Tuesday.Demand from trad