Stocks boosted as incoming Fed head backs stimulus
By EILEEN NG People walk outside a securities firm in Tokyo, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013. Asian stock markets bounced higher Thursday after prepared testimony for the confirmation hearing of incoming…
Typhoons
Agony flows from unwatched threat: a wall of water
By TODD PITMAN A Filipino man walks among debris from damaged homes at typhoon-hit Tacloban city, Leyte province, central Philippines on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013. Typhoon Haiyan, one of the…
AP PHOTOS: Typhoon: from landfall to aftermath
FILE – In this Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013 file image provided by NASA shows Typhoon Haiyan taken by Astronaut Karen L. Nyberg aboard the International Space Station. Haiyan slammed the…
Markets unmoved by Chinese policy promises
By PAN PYLAS People walk by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. Asian stock markets mostly traded higher Tuesday after the Dow…
Tons of aid in Philippines, but not where needed
By TODD PITMAN and JIM GOMEZ Typhoon survivors hang signs from their necks as they queue up in the hopes of boarding a C-130 military transport plane Tuesday, Nov. 12,…
AP PHOTOS: TYPHOON DEVASTATES PHILIPPINES
By The Associated Press A man looks at a tourist boat sinking in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam Monday, Nov. 11, 2013. Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in northern Vietnam early Monday…
Hurricane? Cyclone? Typhoon? Here’s the difference
By SETH BORENSTEIN In this image provided by NOAA Friday Nov. 8, 2013 which was taken at 12:30 a.m. EST shows Typhoon Haiyan as it crosses the Philippines. One of…
Over 100 dead as typhoon slams central Philippines
By JIM GOMEZ Tacloban Airport is covered by debris after powerful Typhoon Haiyan hit Tacloban city, in Leyte province in central Philippines, Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013. Rescuers in the central…