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General Motors set a July sales record in China. That country is already the most important auto market in the world. It could be where GM maintains global dominance.

The pontiff, the first Latin American head of the Church, will be making his first papal trip abroad to the world's most populous Catholic country.

The Guardian's U.S. editor in chief, Janine Gibson, discusses how the news organization came up with the idea to let visitors to its website see news about the royal baby or not. You can click on "Royalist" or "Republican." (In the U.S., the choice is "Royalist" or "Not a royalist.") We muse on what this means.

For three consecutive weeks, the Spanish-language TV network's prime-time ratings have dominated among young adult viewers.

The move to raise rates from 10.5 percent is aimed at limiting the ruble's slide and curbing inflation. Sanctions and low oil prices have made it the world's worst-performing major currency this year.

It was an honest mistake. But when President Obama said "James Flacco" when referring to James Franco — on a Friday before the holidays, no less — the slip was eagerly received online.

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said the timing "could not be worse" and the decision to hold the drill was "just dumb." The airport apologized.

Author Chrystia Freeland says economic inequality is growing by leaps and bounds. She charts the rise of billionaire plutocrats and wonders what the concentration of wealth means for the rest of us.

The Associated Press reports that U.S. Air Force officers with nuclear launch authority are caught up in an illegal-narcotics investigation.

Only about 30 demonstrators were out Wednesday night in Ferguson, NPR's Elise Hu reports, and there were only a handful of sizable protests across the country.