Reuters

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday called for an immediate halt to the fighting in Yemen, the first time he has made such an appeal since Saudi-led air strikes against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels began three weeks ago.

Men claiming to be Islamic militants shot and wounded an American woman in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi on Thursday, leaving leaflets in her car naming her and saying they had targeted her because she was American, police said.

Islamic State militants clashed with security forces inside Iraq's largest refinery on Thursday and held on to recent gains in the west of the country, as Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the extremist group remained "very, very dangerous."

The New Orleans Pelicans and Brooklyn Nets surprised many by experts by earning a spot in the postseason.

The market has gradually recovered this year as much lower prices have discouraged oil exploration and production.

The yields on all German government debt out to January 2024 were negative.

Sharp's lenders, Mizuho Bank and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, will inject $1.7 billion in a debt-for-equity swap, according to a source.

BP originally said it expected to pay $7.8 billion to resolve claims under the settlement.

Quiet diplomacy among the world's biggest oil producers has heated up this week, yet observers see few signs that renewed discussion among Russia, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and others will lead to action on output.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who is making cutting Social Security and Medicare the centerpiece of a possible presidential campaign, conceded on Wednesday that he is taking a risk with the proposal.

Last year, it had reported a surprise loss when it took a charge of $6 billion for litigation expenses.

The ECB is almost certain to keep rates unchanged at record lows at its meeting later in the day.

Industry analysts had last week received UKOG's news with a note of caution.

Rouhani also said the U.S. Congress' power to review a nuclear deal with Iran was a domestic matter.

Shares in the affiliate, Alibaba Health Information Technology Limited, nearly doubled early on Wednesday after the announcement.

The IMF has cautioned that the economic recovery remains "moderate and uneven," beset by greater uncertainty and many risks.

Protesters in several U.S. cities blocked highways and swarmed police precincts, leading to at least two dozen arrests in demonstrations touched off by fresh cases of police violence against unarmed black men.

Congress on Tuesday approved a bill to repair the formula for reimbursing Medicare physicians, marking a rare bipartisan achievement just in time to head off a 21 percent cut in the doctors' pay.

Yousafzai called on Nigerian authorities and the international community "to do more" to free the more than 200 schoolgirls.

An unmanned SpaceX rocket blasted off from Florida on Tuesday to send a cargo ship to the International Space Station, then flipped around and made a hard landing on a platform in the ocean.

Cuba’s communist government had said normal relations between the two former Cold War foes would be impossible as long as it remained on the U.S. blacklist.

China's annual economic growth likely slowed to a six-year low of 7 percent in the first quarter as demand at home and abroad faltered, fanning expectations that authorities will have to roll out more policy stimulus to avert a sharper slowdown.

AT&T Inc. and three cable and wireless trade groups filed separate lawsuits on Tuesday challenging the U.S. Federal Communications Commission over its new web traffic regulations.

U.S. President Barack Obama dropped his opposition on Tuesday to a bill giving Congress a voice on a nuclear deal with Iran after members of his Democratic Party negotiated changes to the bill that had won strong support from both parties.

The New York branch of the U.S. Federal Reserve, wary that a natural disaster or other eventuality could shut down its market operations as it approaches an interest rate hike, has added staff and bulked up its satellite office in Chicago, according to an exclusive Reuters report.

Retail sales rose in March for the first time since November as consumers stepped up purchases of automobiles and other goods, suggesting a sharp slowdown in economic growth in the first quarter was temporary.

The WTO figures are based on economic growth estimates from organizations including the IMF.

Obama's move last November to ease immigration rules using his executive authority largely disappointed tech industry leaders.

Inflation has not been this weak since at least 1989, when comparable data began.