Huawei nearly No.2 in smartphone market

Feb 1,2019
Huawei is quickly taking a larger share of the global smartphone market, even as it faces allegations including violating US sanctions. The Chinese company's shipments last year brought it nearly even with the world's number-two handset maker, Apple.
Malaysia enthrones new king after historic abdication
Jan 31
Malaysia on Thursday installed a new king, Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah, after the last monarch abdicated in a historic first following his reported marriage to a Russian ex-beauty queen.
Five foreign journalists arrested in Venezuela
Jan 31
Venezuelan authorities have detained five foreign journalists covering the standoff with opposition forces seeking the ouster of President Nicolas Maduro.
Air pollution forces Bangkok schools shut
Jan 31
Toxic smog has forced authorities in Bangkok to close the city's public schools.
Online illegal auction of possible uranium halted
Jan 31
Police in Japan are investigating the sale of radioactive materials suspected to be depleted uranium.
Arctic air sends temperatures well below zero in midwest US
Jan 31
A brutal cold wave hit the American Midwest on Wednesday, bringing temperatures lower than those in Antarctica, grounding flights, closing schools and businesses -- and raising fears of hypothermia.
Grenade attack kills two at southern Philippines mosque
Jan 30
A grenade attack on a mosque in the troubled southern Philippines killed two people early Wednesday, authorities said, just days after a deadly Catholic cathedral bombing and a vote backing Muslim self-rule in the region.