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Chinese automakers are increasingly shifting from exporting vehicles to Africa to assembling them there as they target the continent's fast growing population, rising middle class and expanding demand for affordable electric vehicles.

Shares are mostly higher in Asia and U.S. futures have edged higher, while oil prices advanced. South Korea's Kospi index jumped 4% on a rebound for computer chipmakers.

Doctors worry that President Donald Trump's new executive order on vaccines will stoke fear and confusion among parents at a time when measles is raging, immunization rates are falling and children are heading back to school.

Hiroshi Okuda, the former chief executive of Toyota, who led the Japanese automaker's stellar rise in global markets, has died.

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- El juicio de un hombre acusado de orquestar el asesinato de Tupac Shakur comenzó esta semana con la selección del jurado, casi 30 años después de que el astro del rap fuera acribillado cerca del Strip de Las Vegas.

Sir Rod Stewart has canceled his upcoming tour dates after undergoing a coronary stent procedure. Stewart canceled his Tuesday night Cleveland performance following a postponed Cincinnati concert Sunday.

Late mob boss John Gotti's reality TV star grandson has reported to federal prison after trying to stave off his fraud sentence by saying he was going to donate a kidney to his ailing mother.

Civil rights groups and researchers pleaded at a public hearing Tuesday for a federal agency to continue its annual collection of workplace demographic data.

Authorities in Zimbabwe say at least 15 people have died and another 27 are missing after a ferry capsized on Lake Kariba.

A set of unique, extremely rare Super Mario cartridges was found in a gaming store in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and will be auctioned off starting Friday.