Reuters

Calling Republican defense spending plans a "road to nowhere," Defense Secretary Ash Carter appealed on Wednesday for lawmakers to work with him toward a new bipartisan budget deal to provide stable funding for a U.S. military hurt by years of steep cuts.

The U.S. State Department has deemed it "not acceptable" for staff to conduct official business on a private email server as presidential contender Hillary Clinton did when she was secretary of state, a senior department official told senators on Wednesday.

Former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Jim Wright, a Texas Democrat known for hardball politics who quit amid accusations of financial impropriety, has died at the age of 92, the Texas Democratic Party said.

Navinder Singh Sarao has been charged by the U.S. Justice Department with wire fraud, commodities fraud and market manipulation.

Official data last week showed the euro zone ended four months of deflation in March.

The discovery was made about 2.5 miles from the site where 26 bodies were found a few days ago.

Greenpeace India says the government is trying to silence criticism and dissent in the world's largest democracy.

U.N. sanctions and a future mechanism for Iran to buy atomic technology are two core sticking points in the talks.

The Germanwings co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing a plane in the French Alps in March, killing all 150 people on board, practiced a descent on the previous flight, Bild newspaper said.

The Republican leader of the U.S. Senate cleared the way on Tuesday for a vote on a bill that would give Congress the power to review an international nuclear agreement with Iran, ending debate over efforts to use the measure to impose more conditions on Tehran.

The federal Office of Management and Budget has granted U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack the authority to transfer an additional $330 million in funds for the agency's handling of the avian influenza outbreak, USDA agency sources told Reuters, an exclusive report said.

Last year Moldova placed Banca de Economii, Banca Sociala and Unibank under central bank administration after a series of non-performing loans bankrupted the lenders.

Europe's biggest bank HSBC beat forecasts with the help of a bounceback in investment banking revenues.

To encourage private investors the NDRC has opened up a number of previously off-limits projects.

The Justice Department is investigating Medley Global Advisors over a possible leak of information from the Federal Reserve.

The damages the jury ordered on Monday were lesser than the $40 million Fujifilm sought while going into the trial.

Nepali police and local volunteers found the bodies of about 100 trekkers and villagers buried in an avalanche set off by last month's earthquake, and were digging for signs of others missing, officials said.

The Pimco Total Return Fund, launched by Bill Gross, has lost its title as the world's biggest bond mutual fund, following two years of withdrawals.

President Obama on Tuesday will nominate Marine Corps' Commandant Joseph Dunford as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. officials said on Monday.

Federal authorities charged New York state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son with engaging in a corruption scheme, in the latest of a string of criminal cases against politicians in Albany.

Pakistani Taliban militants killed 153 people, most of them children, at a high school in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Dec. 16.

Struggling amid a cash crunch, Athens faces debt repayments to the IMF totaling nearly 1 billion euros this month.

Business ties between Taiwan and China have improved to their best level in six decades.

Opinion polls show the Conservatives and Labour Party neck and neck, with neither on track to win control of the House of Commons on their own.

Both input and output prices declined for a ninth month in April, while manufacturing employment contracted for an 18th month.

"India may be the last big white sheet of paper in the automotive industry."

North Korean state media accused one of them of running an "underground church" and spreading foreign information on USB sticks and SD memory cards in the country.

The informal talks came as fighting escalated after the withdrawal of most U.S. and allied troops.