Reuters

Last year, Britain was the fastest growing of any major advanced economy.

China's economy is headed for its worst year in a quarter of a century.

It was the highest growth reading for the French economy since the second quarter of 2013.

The government was compelled to send the proposed legislation to two different parliamentary panels for a review.

A Marine Corps helicopter was declared missing Tuesday with six Marines and two Nepalese soldiers aboard as it was ferrying rice and tarps to earthquake victims in rugged terrain in Nepal, near a town hard hit by aftershocks.

The man who shot President Reagan in 1981 should be released from a mental hospital, his lawyer argued in federal court Tuesday. Prosecutors said he should only be freed under tight restrictions.

The Treasury has so far raised over $15 billion by selling its stake in the company.

Other surveys have pointed to strong consumer morale, with inflation at zero and rising wages.

Gulf rulers may be displeased by what they see as U.S. indifference to Iranian meddling in the Arab world.

Israel, which has never joined the 1970 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, agreed to take part in NPT meetings Monday as an observer, ending a 20-year absence.

Facebook may pursue a lawsuit against law firms that represented a New York man who recently turned fugitive rather than face federal charges that he tried to defraud founder Mark Zuckerberg out of half of the company, a judge ruled.

The Federal Reserve drew up extensive plans for handling a U.S. debt default that included scheduling deferred payments and lending cash to investors, according to a lawmaker who cited Fed documents.

A 750 million euro debt repayment to the IMF falls due on Tuesday.

Google, Apple and Microsoft revealed earlier this year they were under review by the Australian Tax Office.

While small, the protests have been unusually provocative for Afghanistan.

Cameron dismissed the idea that Scots might get another independence referendum any time soon.

Analysts predict policy makers would relax reserve requirements and cut rates again in the coming months.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said he was concerned about environmental damage and visited the plant for a briefing on Sunday.

Macedoniam government officials said police had wiped out a group of ethnic Albanian "terrorists" in a day-long gun battle.

"What is important is to get a signal for the funding strangulation to end."

Taliban insurgents quickly claimed the attack near the Afghan attorney general's office in the west of the capital.

Saadi Gadhafi faces charges of killing a soccer player and unlawful imprisonment.

Interior Ministry spokesman Ivo Kotevski told a news conference 37 police officers were also wounded.

Accounts of Russian soldiers quitting the army because of the conflict in Ukraine call into question the Kremlin's assertions that no Russian soldiers have been sent to Ukraine.

In early May a group of "law-breakers" in Xining, the capital of Qinghai province, broke into a store and vandalized it.

Typhoon Noul is expected to trigger flash floods and landslides in parts of the Cagayan Valley.

Twenty bodies were recovered on Friday, bringing the total number of confirmed deaths in Langtang to 120.

Saudi Arabia had said on Friday that the ceasefire could begin on Tuesday if the Houthi militia agreed to the pause.

For Republicans, the struggle against Islamic State presents a challenge and a conundrum.