(GNN) - Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) is bracing for a challenging year, it said on Wednesday after reporting that sales at its core division fell for a fourth straight month in January, with demand shrinking in key Europea
UK's Cameron backs ex-HSBC chairman Green going before parliament -spokesman
Feb 11 (GNN) - British Prime Minister David Cameron would support HSBC's former executive chairman Stephen Green going before lawmakers to answer questions about what he knew about tax avoidance at the bank's Swiss arm
'American Sniper' murder trial to open in Texas
(GNN) - Lawyers for an Iraqi war veteran will argue at the start of his trial on Wednesday that he was insane when he fatally shot former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, whose best-selling autobiography was turned into the hit
More than 300 migrants die this week trying to reach Italy: U.N. agency
(GNN) - More than 300 people probably died this week after attempting to reach Italy from Libya on four separate boats in stormy weather, the U.N. refugee agency said on Wednesday after speaking to a handful of survi
Filipino nurse from Saudi Arabia tests positive for MERS virus
(GNN) - A Filipino nurse, who arrived last week from Saudi Arabia, has tested positive for the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), the first case of the deadly virus in the Philippines, the health
Al Qaeda supporters in Yemen pledge allegiance to Islamic State: group
(GNN) - A group of Islamist fighters in Yemen renounced their loyalty to al Qaeda's leader and pledged allegiance to the head of the Islamic State, according to a Twitter message retrieved by U.S.-based monitoring grou
How the Houthis drove Yemen into a political vacuum
(GNN) - When Yemen's Houthi fighters scaled the rooftops surrounding former president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's home, killed his guards and put him under house arrest, they left no doubt that negotiating a political s
