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Fifth-Generation Mitsubishi Pajero Returns With Ladder Frame and Seven Seats

Fifth-Generation Mitsubishi Pajero Returns With Ladder Frame and Seven Seats

Mitsubishi has unveiled the fifth-generation Pajero, reviving its flagship off-road SUV with body-on-frame construction, a seven-seat cabin and hardware designed for difficult terrain.

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Honda Presses Suppliers for Deep Cost Cuts in $9.4 Billion Savings Drive

Honda Presses Suppliers for Deep Cost Cuts in $9.4 Billion Savings Drive

Honda is seeking about 1.5 trillion yen, or $9.4 billion, in savings by 2030 and has assigned suppliers aggressive price-reduction targets as it responds to mounting competition from Chinese automakers.

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Philadelphia Roundup: Museum Closure, Phishing Warning and Gun Violence Data

Philadelphia Roundup: Museum Closure, Phishing Warning and Gun Violence Data

Philadelphia’s Sept. 2 morning news roundup highlighted the planned closure of the Academy of Natural Sciences museum, a Medicare-related MyChart phishing warning, local investment and public-safety developments.

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Philadelphia Festival Revisits the Signing and Legacy of the U.S. Constitution

Philadelphia Festival Revisits the Signing and Legacy of the U.S. Constitution

Philadelphia is marking its role in the creation of the U.S. Constitution with a public event at the National Constitution Center, revisiting the document signed at Independence Hall on Sept. 17, 1787.

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Philadelphia Natural History Museum Prepares to Close After Two Centuries

Philadelphia Natural History Museum Prepares to Close After Two Centuries

Philadelphia’s Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University is preparing to end public museum operations in September after more than two centuries of natural-history work and nearly 200 years as a public museum.

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Russia to close branches of Germany's Goethe Institute

Russia to close branches of Germany's Goethe Institute

Russia will close multiple branches of Germany's Goethe Institute in response to Germany ordering the closure of a Russian cultural centre in Berlin, Moscow said Thursday, amid spiralling tensions between the two countries.

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Indonesia protesters targeted by coordinated disinfo

Indonesia protesters targeted by coordinated disinfo

Disinformation about recent anti-government protests in Indonesia has inundated social media in what researchers say is a coordinated attempt to spread propaganda about the one-year-old movement.

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Oil sinks, bond yields ease and stocks boosted after Trump Iran hint

Oil sinks, bond yields ease and stocks boosted after Trump Iran hint

Oil prices sank Thursday after Donald Trump suggested the latest US attacks against Iran would likely be short-lived.

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Philippines holds drills to safeguard students from armed intruders

Philippines holds drills to safeguard students from armed intruders

As an alarm reverberated throughout a Philippine high school on Thursday, students scrambled behind locked doors and police swept corridors in a drill aimed at preparing for an attack once unthinkable in the Southeast Asian country.

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American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson dies at 70

American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson dies at 70

Grammy Award-winning American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson died on Wednesday in her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi, her manager said. She was 70.

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