Apple announced CarPlay, the newest version of its voice enabled in-car technology will debut on select 2014 models later this year. Walter Piecyck, BTIG wireless research analyst, discusses the car-tech market on digits. Photo: Apple. Up Next ...

WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama will meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the White House March 17, two weeks after a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, racing against an April deadline for the Palestinians and Israelis to ...

Children play with a suitcase in a camp for the Nuer ethnic group inside a U.N. compound in Bor, South Sudan, on Thursday. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images. KAMPALA Uganda—Both sides in South Sudan's three-month war are committing human ...

A Ugandan reads a copy of the 'Red Pepper' tabloid newspaper in Kampala, Uganda, Tuesday. Associated Press. KAMPALA, Uganda—Several European nations said Tuesday they were suspending assistance to Uganda, a day after the country's president ...

TOKYO--Japan will continue to rely on nuclear power as a central part of its energy policy under a draft government plan, effectively overturning a pledge by a previous administration to phase out all nuclear plants. Skepticism about nuclear power has been ...

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Monday signed an anti-gay bill into law, which could punish those convicted of homosexual acts to 14 years in prison for a first offense and a possible life sentence for additional ones. Via The Foreign Bureau. Up Next ...

BRUSSEL--Anders Fogh Rasmussen, secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Sunday urged Ukraine's armed forces to follow through on its pledge of not meddling in the country's political turmoil. "I commend the statement of the Ukrainian ...

NEW YORK--Gold prices fell Thursday after weak manufacturing sector data from China reignited worries the world's second-largest economy is heading for a slowdown. Factory activity in China--the world's top gold consumer--fell to a seven-month low in ...

Elderly Koreans from each side of the peninsula's heavily-armed border on Thursday wrapped their arms around relatives not seen since the 1950s in the first reunion of families divided by the Korean War in over three years. At the gathering at the North ...

The U.S. agency said Wednesday it plans to issue new rules governing “net neutrality”—the principle that Internet service providers should treat all data equally. The move comes after a U.S. appeals court last month struck down its previous rules in a case ...

BEIRUT—Twin bombs targeted Iran's cultural center and an army checkpoint in a Shiite neighborhood of Beirut during Wednesday morning rush hour, the latest in a series of sectarian attacks in Lebanon. Health Minister Wael Abou Faour said five people ...

Rebel fighters listen to their commander in a rebel-controlled territory in Upper Nile State. Reuters. KAMPALA Uganda---South Sudan rebels Tuesday attacked the capital of the state that is home to the country's only functioning oil fields, further fraying a ...

KAMPALA Uganda—Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni is set to sign the antigay bill into law, in an abrupt policy shift just a few weeks after the country's long serving leader appealed for more time to study the bill. If enacted, the bill could lead to a life ...

KAMPALA Uganda—Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni is set to sign the antigay bill into law, in an abrupt policy shift just a few weeks after the country's long serving leader appealed for more time to study the bill. If enacted, the bill could lead to a life ...

PARIS—France is sending 400 more troops to the Central African Republic, days after United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sounded an alarm about spiraling violence there. French President François Hollande said the decision followed an appeal ...

Indonesian soldiers evacuated ash-covered residents in Malang, East Java province, on Friday, moments after Mount Kelud erupted. Authorities have been trying to evacuate villages within 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) of the peak--about 200,000 people in all.

JAKARTA, Indonesia—At least two people were killed after a volcano on Indonesia's main island of Java staged a major eruption, forcing 100,000 into shelters and disrupting air travel, disaster officials said Friday. Ashfall from Mount Kelud, which erupted ...

BANGKOK--Thai riot police on Friday began clearing antigovernment protesters from some areas of the country's capital, where demonstrators have blockaded streets and government offices for weeks in their bid to topple Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

LONDON—Thousands of homes remained without power Thursday morning as local services and the military continued to battle severe flooding and damage caused by one of the wettest winters England has seen in more than two centuries. The national ...

The wreckage of a bus after a bombing in Karachi Thursday that killed at least 12 police and wounded more than 40. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images. KARACHI, Pakistan—A roadside bomb killed at least 12 policemen in Pakistan's volatile southern port ...