Reuters

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has responded to overtures from President Obama amid nuclear talks by sending him a secret letter, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor Wiesel is lending his support to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's March 3 speech to Congress on the dangers of Iran's nuclear program.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered an Alabama official to comply with her earlier ruling striking down the state's ban on same-sex matrimony and start issuing marriage licenses to gay couples.

Negative rates as a stimulus measure were rejected by many economists as not feasible until the financial crisis.

The switching business brought in about 39 percent of Cisco's total hardware revenue in 2014.

Net income attributable to Baidu jumped 16 percent to 3.23 billion yuan, or $520.4 million, for the fourth quarter.

Greece's leftist government and its international creditors failed to agree on a way forward on the country's unpopular bailout and will try again Monday.

Activist investor and major Apple Inc shareholder Carl Icahn said the iPhone maker's stock should be trading at $216, far above its record high of $124.92 hit on Wednesday.

The deal will involve Interxion shareholders receiving 2.3386 new Telecity shares for each Interxion share.

The issue is a thorny one, as no extradition treaty exists between the U.S. and China.

CEO Elon Musk is looking to fire overseas executives after weak sales cast doubt on his ambitious global expansion plans.

European policymakers have urged Athens to seek an extension to the bailout program when it expires at the end of the month.

Yi's remarks came after China posted its slowest economic growth in 24 years in 2014.

A U.S. judge on Tuesday ruled in favor of the National Security Agency in a lawsuit challenging the interception of Internet communications without a warrant, according to a court filing.

U.S. prosecutors have stepped up efforts to establish whether HSBC helped Americans evade taxes.

Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives have put the economy at the center of their campaign to remain in government.

The Swedish company said its board of directors unanimously supported the offer.

Microsoft sued Samsung last year in a federal court in New York, accusing Samsung of breaching a collaboration agreement.

The deal also requires Qualcomm to lower its royalty rates on patents used in China, likely helping local smartphone makers.

China's annual consumer inflation hit a five-year low in January while factory deflation deepened, underscoring persistent weakness in the economy.

The White House will ask Congress by Wednesday for new authority to use force against Islamic State fighters, congressional aides said on Monday.

Anwar was the ruling party's rising star in the mid-1990s.

Nisman accused the president of derailing his investigation into a 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center.

Netanyahu is due to address a joint session of Congress about Iran's nuclear program on March 3.

The deal could be announced as soon as Monday, a source said.

Prior to Modi's election in May, the economy had endured its weakest phase of growth since the mid-1980s.

In Europe, all eyes were on Greece, after its new prime minister Alexis Tsipras ruled out extending its bailout.

Mark Carney was speaking at an Institute of International Finance meeting.

Regulators are essentially guiding investors into blue chips, which most retail investors have avoided in favor of smaller firms.