LONDON (AP) -- Britain's government gave the go-ahead Tuesday to build a new runway at London’s Heathrow airport despite concerns about air pollution, noise and the destruction of homes in the capital's densely populated western neighborhoods.The Department for Transport said the decision underlined its commitment to keeping the U.K. "open for business." Theresa May’s government rejected other options to expand airport capacity, including the extension of an existing runway at Heathrow or buildi

NEW DELHI(AFP) -- A self-styled doctor and three of his patients died in a south Indian village after drinking a poisonous herbal medicine which he claimed cured diabetes and hypertension, officials said Tuesday.Another patient is in a critical condition at a government-run hospital after they drank the concoction prepared by the doctor at his makeshift clinic in Alagappuram village in Tamil Nadu on Sunday."They were unconscious and vomiting and were shifted to hospital where four of them died,"

South Korea's major department stores and duty free shops have enjoyed increased sales with the start of an annual shopping festival coinciding with China's National Day holiday season, industry officials said Monday.Korea Sale FESTA, which is South Korea's biggest shopping gala, opened last week for a month-long run. It features various special discounts and offers as well as cultural performances associated with the Korean Wave, or hallyu, for shoppers at home and foreign tourists.Sales at Lot

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) -- The Palestinian high court on Monday ordered municipal elections to be held only in the West Bank and not in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, though a new date for the suspended polls was not set.The ruling could bring to an end hopes that the municipal elections would be the first polls since 2006 in which both Islamist movement Hamas and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah, which runs the West Bank, would participate."The court orders the imple

DAR ES SALAAM (AFP) -- A 5.7-magnitude earthquake that struck Tanzania, close to Lake Victoria and the border with Uganda, has killed at least 14 people and injured 200, local authorities said Sunday.Deodatus Kinawilo, district commissioner for Bukoba, the town close to the epicentre of the quake, said 14 people had been confirmed dead following the quake that struck early afternoon on Saturday.The previous toll from local authorities was 13 dead and 203 injured.A group of 15 boys who were secon

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- Republican Donald Trump is condemning Hillary Clinton‘s remark that half of his supporters could be put in a "basket of deplorables" and dismissing her admission she was wrong, saying the Democrat had committed "the worst mistake of the political season.""For the first time in a long while, her true feelings came out, showing bigotry and hatred for millions of Americans," Trump said Saturday in a statement rejecting her effort to walk back her remarks. "How can she be

MEXICO CITY (AFP) -- Thousands of people marched throughout Mexico Saturday to protest President Enrique Pena Nieto's initiative to legalize gay marriage.The National Front for the Family -- a coalition of conservative religious groups -- called for the protests, and is also planning a mass march for September 24 in Mexico City."Long live the family, in the image of the Virgin Mary, the baby Jesus and Saint Joseph," read one sign at the protest in the city of Puebla, the capital of a central Mex

[THE INVESTOR] South Koreans worked the second most hours, but earned less than average compared to other countries last year, an Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development report showed Monday. Out of the 35 OECD member countries, a South Korean laborer worked 2,113 hours on average last year, 347 hours more than the OECD average of 1,766 hours. This amounted to 43 extra working days, considering eight working hours per day based on the law here. According to prices and purchasing po