With the burden of Taiwanese fan speculation, sitting one game down in the series and as a first-timer in the Major League Baseball (MLB) postseason, rookie Wei-Yin Chen delivered an astonishing performance on Tuesday, leading the Baltimore Orioles to a 3-2 win against the New York Yankees.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday said that a "tough path" of austerity was the best way for Greece to overcome its economic crisis as thousands of protesters demonstrated a few blocks away.

The Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) yesterday announced that based on its latest estimation, the Labor Insurance Fund will see a deficit starting from 2017 and be bankrupt by 2027, earlier than previously estimated -- which means that people younger than 50 may not be able to collect their pensions when they reach 65.

A French and an American scientist won the Nobel Prize on Tuesday for finding ways to measure quantum particles without destroying them, which could make it possible to build a new kind of computer far more powerful than any seen before.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's strong performance in last week's debate helped him pull ahead of President Barack Obama, a Pew Research Center poll showed on Monday.

Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on Monday the "worst-case scenarios" were now playing out in Syria and Turkey would do everything necessary to protect itself, as its army fired back for a sixth day after a shell from Syria flew over the border.

Taiwan's exports rose 10 percent from a year earlier in September to US$27.17 billion, ending a streak of six consecutive monthly declines, the Ministry of Finance reported Monday.

Prosecutors yesterday pressed charges against Keelung City Mayor Chang Tong-Rong (張通榮) for interference with state functions.

Europe's main stock markets fell on Monday, with traders on edge as eurozone finance ministers trying to get on top of the region's debt crisis established a landmark financial firewall in Luxembourg.

British researcher John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan won this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for discovering that mature, specialized cells of the body can be reprogrammed into stem cells -- a discovery that scientists hope to turn into new treatments.