SAO PAULO, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Brazil registered an unemployment rate of 6.6 percent in 2024, the lowest since 2012, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) said on Friday.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) expects that the release of three Israeli hostages planned for Saturday morning will take place at two locations in the Gaza Strip, Israel's state-owned Kan TV News ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- A small plane crashed in a neighborhood of northeast Philadelphia on Friday, sparking a large fire, U.S. media reported. Two people were aboard the plane, according to ...

Belgium's King Philippe met with Bart De Wever, the federal government's lead negotiator, at the Royal Palace in Brussels on Friday. During the meeting, De Wever presented a detailed report on the ...

Growing up amid frequent wildfires also shaped Deng's sense of urgency. He remembers the "smoke days" in California when schools closed for safety. That exposure to disaster, combined with his Silicon ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index, the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation measure, rose 2.6 percent in December compared with a year ago, ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 jolted 39 km WNW of Archidona, Ecuador at 23:02:29 GMT on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said.

Markets initially climbed but retreated after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that the final details of the tariffs would be made public over the weekend. President Donald Trump ...

UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- While calm is being restored in Goma, the key eastern city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the risk of disease outbreaks, including cholera and Mpox, ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 jolted Ecuador at 23:02:31 GMT on Friday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 ...

The Public Health Emergency Operations Center of Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health confirmed in a statement that the Israeli airstrikes targeted Janta, a village in the Bekaa region, resulting in ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- OpenAI on Friday launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) "reasoning" model o3-mini. The company said the newest in the company's o family of reasoning models is ...