Reuters

A Volkswagen representative confirmed CEO Matthias Mueller would accompany German Chancellor Angela Merkel on her trip to China.

Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr's life now hangs on the possibility of a pardon from King Salman.

Germany expects at least 800,000 migrants to arrive this year alone, almost 1 percent of the population, many of them fleeing conflicts in Syria and elsewhere.

The automaker anticipates the costs of the scandal might exceed 30 billion euros ($33 billion), according to a German monthly magazine.

Moscow is a key foreign ally for Bashar Assad, and Russia's foreign minister said in comments aired on Russian TV Saturday that the Kremlin wanted Syria to prepare for parliamentary and presidential elections.

"Every day counts," European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says. "Otherwise, we will soon see families in cold rivers in the Balkans perish miserably."

The bilateral deals between Japan and Uzbekistan cover the communications, energy, transport and other sectors.

One German official estimates the country’s need at 350,000 apartments per year, but only 245,000 were built last year.

China's Premier Li Keqiang says the economic difficulties ahead for China should not be underestimated.

The United States and Saudi Arabia agreed to increase support to Syria's moderate opposition while seeking a political resolution of the four-year conflict.

Playing up his outsider status and promising clean government, 46-year-old Jimmy Morales has surged in polls since a probe into a multi-million dollar customs racket led to the resignation and arrest of President Otto Perez.

In the run-up to the polls, the opposition has accused the ruling CCM party of using state institutions to rig elections and intimidate its supporters, something the party and the government deny.

North Korea has rejected the so-called Northern Limit Line (NLL), which was drawn up at the end of the Korean War, as the maritime border, insisting on a line further to the south.

More than five million registered voters will choose from 54 presidential candidates who appear on the crammed ballot with facial images, party logos and an accompanying party number to help a vast illiterate population.

"We are going to win this race,” Edwards promised as he addressed supporters hours after the polls closed.

Major damage was averted at tourist centers like Puerto Vallarta, but phone lines remain down where the storm hit Cuixmala, site of an exclusive getaway.

O'Hara died peacefully at her home in Boise, Idaho, surrounded by family members and listening to "her favorite music" from the 1952 film "The Quiet Man."

If no candidate garners at least 50 percent of the vote Saturday, the top two finishers will meet in a runoff Nov. 21.

The U.S. Federal Reserve's policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee is meeting next week, but it is not expected to raise its interest rates.

"China's future economic growth will still be relatively quick. Around seven, six-point-something -- these will all be very normal," a People's Bank of China official says.

The German company also plans to re-use as many parts as possible in the next generation of its popular Golf model to save hundreds of millions of euros.

"It's a deliberate and wise and somewhat necessary move to shore up the talent you want to keep," one recruiter said.

"I'm appalled at how many Americans are going into bankruptcy because of outrageous costs," one physician said.

On Tuesday, the iPhone maker is expected to report $51.1 billion in revenue, a 21.3 percent increase compared to the same quarter last year.

The Japanese conglomerate, whose businesses range from laptops to nuclear power, is undergoing reforms after revelations that it overstated earnings.

In Evesham Township, patrons of at least 19 alcohol-serving establishments can get a free ride home from Uber in a donor-funded program started last week.

If all goes as expected next week, the Wisconsin lawmaker and 2012 Republican vice-presidential nominee will replace John Boehner.

Along with counterparts from Saudi Arabia and Turkey, the U.S. secretary of state met for two hours Friday with Sergei Lavrov, foreign minister of Russia.

The decision came a day after General Motors said it would add 1,200 jobs and a shift at its Detroit-Hamtramck plant.