Clashes in Istanbul's Mecediyeköy district between ...

Body bags containing the victims of a Russian jet crash arrived in the Indonesian capital today as Russian investigators flew in to probe ....

Violence in Syria killed four civilians today, one of them a woman, a rights watchdog said, even as a UN mission charged with overseeing a battered truce neared half its planned strength.

Israeli and Egyptian officials are making progress in attempts to end a mass hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners, some of them close to death, Gaza's Hamas prime minister said today.

China has denied it is increasing combat readiness in response to a tense territorial row...

The US bank JPMorgan has lost $2 billion on derivatives in a trading portfolio designed to hedge against risks the bank takes with its own money.

Qatar is continuing its overseas buying spree, snapping up a stake in Royal Dutch Shell and reportedly also eyeing a chunk of Italian oil major ENI.

China’s economy is slowing further, defying hopes it may have “bottomed out,” with data for April showing sharper than expected declines in investment and industrial production.

Spain agreed to commission an independent audit of its financial system on May 11.

India’s industrial output unexpectedly shrank in March by 3.5 percent as Asia’s third-largest economy was hit by declining domestic demand and falling exports, official data showed May 11.