Tokyo / Bloomberg Sony Corp. shares climbed the most in two months in Tokyo trading as concerns abated that a quake at the southern Japanese island of Kyushu will cause a major disruption in the supply of image sensors for mobile phones. The shares rose 6.5 percent to 2,914 yen on Tuesday, the biggest jump since Feb. 15. The ...

  Vienna / AFP Natural disasters have caused more than $7 trillion (6.2 trillion euros) in economic damage worldwide since 1900, with floods and storms accounting for nearly 60 percent of the total, researchers said. The death toll from such natural calamities — which also include earthquakes, volcanoes, droughts, heatwaves and wildfires — topped eight million from 1900 to 2015, ...

  Kabul / AFP At least 30 people were killed and hundreds wounded when a Taliban truck bomb tore through central Kabul on Tuesday, triggering a fierce firefight, a week after the insurgents launched their annual spring offensive. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in a densely crowded neighbourhood, which sent clouds of acrid smoke billowing into the sky ...