Reuters

Asian share markets were narrowly mixed on Wednesday as investors anxiously awaited another batch of Chinese data while strength in the U.S. dollar kept the screws on global commodity prices. 

Militants killed seven members of the Hazara ethnic minority at the weekend and dumped their partially beheaded bodies.

The British prime minister is pushing for changes in the country's ties to the EU ahead of an in-out referendum that he has promised before 2017-end.

Asylum seekers are a hot political issue in Australia where successive governments have vowed to stop them reaching the mainland.

The National Security Agency plans to implement a more targeted system -- and provide updates in early 2016 about its implementation.

The two companies have held preliminary merger talks, but there is no certainty that negotiations will advance, a source said.

Markets affected may include Las Vegas; Seattle; Portland, Oregon; and Bentonville and Fort Smith, Arkansas, one source said.

At stake is the "datr" cookie, which Facebook places on people's browsers when they visit a Facebook site or click a Facebook "Like" button on other websites.

A drop in oil to around $50 a barrel this year has triggered steep cutbacks in production of U.S. shale oil, a major contributors to a gloabl oversupply.

The Department of Justice wants to stop the Swedish maker of Frigidaire, Kenmore and Tappan products from buying GE's appliance business for $3.3 billion.

Jaoan's Takata must pay a $70 million cash penalty and could be fined up to $130 million if it fails to keep to the recall schedule.

Yahoo, which is preparing to spin off its 15 percent stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, declined to comment, as did McKinsey.

Over the weekend, financial markets were served a grim reminder of soft patches in the global economy in the form of disappointing Chinese trade figures.

Edward Breen's appointment after less than a year with DuPont was announced Monday and follows the October resignation of his predecessor, Ellen Kullman.

Punitive damages are designed to punish defendants for egregious or negligent conduct, and to deter future misbehavior.

Defense Department spokesman Captain Jeff Davis declined to specify when the plan would get to Congress, other than it would be "very soon."

Egypt and Russia have yet to formally announce the cause of the crash. Both dismissed as premature U.S. and British assessments that a bomb likely was the cause.

One proposal would tax all of a U.S. company's profits, foreign and domestic, at the same time and rate. Another would discourage "earnings stripping."

The Strategic Defence and Security Review is expected to set out Britain's military capability priorities for the next five years.

The opposition candidate retains a big lead despite a historic summit between President Ma Ying-jeou and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

While the number of protesters fell at the weekend, to an estimated 1,000 in Bucharest, President Klaus Iohannis was at the rally in the capital's downtown on Sunday.

Ministers from NATO countries are due to meet in early December to decide on the future of Resolute Support.

Fires were lit and fences destroyed at the remote Christmas Island facility after the death of an Iranian Kurdish asylum seeker.

As Asian stocks slipped Monday morning, the robust U.S. jobs report bolstered expectations of a Fed interest rate hike.

The rising power of activist shareholders has added a new responsibility to the role of a board director at a publicly traded company: investor relations.

"The indications and analysis so far of the sound on the black box indicate it was a bomb," says a member of the Egyptian investigation team.

World and regional powers including Iran met in Vienna on Oct. 30 to discuss a political solution to Syria's civil war.

Barring surprises, a drop is predicted in major commercial order announcements as Gulf airlines take stock after expansion.

The burst dams held back tailings ponds, masses of finely ground waste rock and water left over from extracting more valuable minerals.