U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa declared Argentina in contempt of court in a hearing on Monday over its failure to pay hold-out investors. Griesa said he would decide on sanctions at a later date, but investors had requested daily fines of $50,000 and payment towards some of the holdouts' legal fees.
Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters extended a blockade of Hong Kong streets on Tuesday, stockpiling supplies and erecting makeshift barricades ahead of what some fear may be a push by police to clear the roads before Chinese National Day.
Earthquake strikes remote Andean village At least eight people died in a magnitude 4. 9 earthquake that struck southern Peru on Sunday morning. The earthquake caused 45 homes to collapse in the remote village of Misca in the Andes Mountains, according to a report from the BBC.
Second politician killed in Mexico in two weeks The week after a Mexican congressman was murdered, a regional politician was killed by gunmen on Sunday at a hotel restaurant in Acapulco.
The Dominican Republic looks like it's ahead of the curve when it comes to fighting hunger, and the United Nations praised the island nation Monday for its efforts.
China finally gets the Xbox One The youth (and adults) of China can finally legally play an imported video game system after Xbox One debuted in the country Monday.
Change in power could lead to security pact with U.S. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai was sworn in as president of Afghanistan on Monday in the first transfer of power in that country since the removal of the Taliban.
Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly's General Debate, Guatemala's foreign affairs minister said the influx of undocumented immigrant children to the United States should not be considered a crime.
The Ebola outbreak, which began earlier this year in Guinea and is the worst in recorded history, has reportedly claimed the lives of more than 3,000 people in West Africa.
Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan on Sunday took the campaign to unseat Nawaz Sharif to the prime minister's home base of Lahore, where tens of thousands of people roared their support for change.
The far-right National Front won its first ever seats in France's upper house of parliament on Sunday, as President Francois Hollande's Socialist party lost its Senate majority.
Afghanistan inaugurates its first new president in a decade on Monday, swearing in technocrat Ashraf Ghani to head a power-sharing government just as the withdrawal of most foreign troops presents a crucial test.
The European Commission will accuse Apple Inc of benefiting from illicit state aid inIreland, based on preliminary findings of an investigation into tax deals, the Financial Times reported citing people familiar with the matter.
British finance minister George Osborne will announce on Monday that he will scrap a tax on inherited pension savings as he lays out the Conservative Party's pitch to win the next election on the back of its economic policies.
Results of cancer drug paired with Immune-boosting drug unclear A Swiss pharmaceutical company presented a clinical study of patients with solid tumors who were given a combination treatment of the company's best-selling cancer drug with an experimental immune-booster, but experts say the results are unclear.
Indian PM receives warm welcome, after previously being barred from U.S. The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, who was once unwelcome in the U. S.
A doctor exposed to Ebola in Sierra Leone will be transferred to America and observed at the National Institutes of Health hospital in Maryland, according to the agency Saturday
