Reuters

China is headed for its slowest economic expansion in 25 years this year, and mainland markets have slumped 40 percent since mid-June.

The private Senegalair plane en route from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Dakar in Senegal disappeared from radar screens Saturday night.

The air strikes targeted troops loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, an ally of the Houthis, and a Houthi base in what was the al-Imam University, a religious school affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood in northern Sanaa.

ormer Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras played down fears on Sunday that a snap election in two weeks would produce a fractured result, saying there were enough undecided voters to produce a clear winner on the day.

 Australia will accept more refugees from camps bordering Syria and Iraq and “is open” to providing more financial assistance, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Sunday.

Guatemalans still reeling from a graft scandal that felled their president this week, head to the polls on Sunday to elect a new leader, though a tight race is seen heading to a second round run-off.

A young Tibetan who vanished two decades ago after he was chosen by the Dalai Lama as the second-highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism is "living a normal life" and does not want to be disturbed, a senior Chinese official said on Sunday.

At least eight people died and about 10 were missing after a South Korean fishing boat capsized, a coast guard official and media reports said on Sunday.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton was on the last of seven challenges to the 2010 law.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov agreed that discussions on the Syrian conflict would continue in New York this month.

"We should all take a look in the mirror and ask how we can help," Prime Minister Juha Sipila told national broadcaster YLE.

United Arab Emirates warplanes struck Houthi targets across Yemen, the state news agency WAM says Saturday.

"It is sad to say al-Shabab has taken El Saliindi. AU forces withdrew, and al-Shabab now controls it," a government official says.

All victims belonged to the largely Shi'ite Hazara ethnic minority that was persecuted by the hardline Sunni Taliban during their rule in 1996-2001.

A blast on the outskirts of the town of Sweida Friday killed Sheikh Wahid al-Balous, a leader of the minority Druze community in Syria.

The renewed fighting raged on Friday around the rebel-held town of Marea, 12 miles from the Turkish border, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Among the targets, the Defense Ministry building in Sanaa was very heavily damaged, residents said. Strikes hit the command of the special security forces and camps of Saleh as well as the presidential complex.

The home in Kempele, northern Finland, could house asylum seekers from the start of the year, Sipila told national broadcaster YLE, while calling all Finns to show solidarity with refugees heading to Europe to flee war and poverty.

Heavy clashes broke out between Islamic State and army units loyal to the country's official government near the eastern city of Derna on Friday, killing four soldiers, military officials said.

Chinese authorities in Tianjin will build a monument to commemorate the 160 people killed in two explosions in the northeastern port city last month, state media said on Saturday, citing local officials.

A move to form a division called Amazon Restaurants could mean it is preparing to enter the meal delivery market against competitors like GrubHub.

The chancellor's coalition is expected to agree on a series of measures Sunday, including cutting red tape to facilitate construction of asylum shelters.

"This is a point in history that reflects a new era in human spaceflight," Boeing Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg said.

At least 40 former Twitter employees have joined the ride-hailing services in recent years, online information revealed.

Authorities cut corners because they were in a hurry the close the case, say lawyers for the families of missing students.

The bankers enriched themselves on management fees, finder fees and commissions paid for fictitious returns that were never verified, prosecutors said.

Making an appeal to countries from the Asia-Pacific region, Putin said his government will increase efforts to develop Russia's Far East.

Germany has witnessed more than 100 arson attacks on asylum shelters in recent months.

The crackdown has been enabled by sweeping new powers the military granted itself after a May 2014 coup.