NEW YORK (AP) – The mobile payment wars are heating up. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, said it’s launching its own mobile payment system that will allow shoppers to pay with any major credit or debit card or its own store gift card through its existing smartphone app …

PARIS (AP) – The latest news related to the U.N. climate conference outside Paris. All times local: 12:05 p.m. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to return to marathon global climate negotiations after staying at the conference site into the wee hours of the morning. Celebrating his 72nd …

ZWICKAU, Germany (AP) – Christmas carols sound in the medieval square, and the scents of hot spiced wine, anise cookies and beeswax candles waft through the air at Zwickau’s traditional Christmas market. The four children of the Habashieh family, Muslim Syrian refugees, wander from stand to stand, looking with big …