Overseas Adoptions by Americans Continue to Decline

By MIRIAM JORDAN April 13, 2017 They have spent thousands of dollars in fees, scaled a mountain of paperwork and waited nearly five years, but Caroline and Jason Lankford have yet to be matched with the Ethiopian child they long to adopt. They are among...

Overseas Adoptions by Americans Continue to Decline

By MIRIAM JORDAN April 13, 2017 They have spent thousands of dollars in fees, scaled a mountain of paperwork and waited nearly five years, but Caroline and Jason Lankford have yet to be matched with the Ethiopian child they long to adopt. They are among...

Asia opens lower, following Wall Street losses after US drops mega-bomb

Markets in Japan and South Korea opened lower on Friday, while other major markets in Asia remained closed for a public holiday. In Japan, the benchmark Nikkei 225 was down 0.38 percent in early trade, while the Topix slid 0.62 percent. Across the Korean Strait, the...