Reuters

Typhoon Hagupit was churning across the Pacific around 860 km (585 miles) east of the island nation on Thursday.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is tasked with checking that Iran meets its commitments under the accord.

India is worried that militant groups fighting foreign forces in Afghanistan will turn their attention to Kashmir.

The U.S. has led the push for tougher sanctions but many European governments have been more cautious.

Osborne will stress he is determined to fix the public finances in the coming years in a half-yearly update on the budget.

U.S. health officials have designated 35 hospitals nationwide as Ebola treatment centers and expects to name more in coming weeks deemed capable of treating patients while minimizing risk to staff, the CDC said.

Under the deal, the first 18 planes will be made in France and shipped to India, while the remaining 108 will be produced by state-run HAL.

Northern Ireland has lobbied London to allow it to cut its corporate tax rate to better compete for jobs with Dublin.

Analysts said the cost savings from the combination were higher than expected but would take several years to be achieved.

Plaintiffs are seeking about $350 million in damages, which would be automatically tripled under antitrust laws.

The growing reservations about Japan come at an awkward time for Abe as he has called an election on Dec. 14.

Russia accused NATO on Monday of destabilizing northern Europe and the Baltics by carrying out drills there and announced new military exercises of its own, increasing tension over the Ukraine crisis.

The downgrade comes less than two weeks before Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seeks re-election at a snap poll.

The Co-op bank is thought to have acknowledged that it has insufficient buffers to withstand a very severe recession.

A Reuters poll had expected manufacturing activity to lose some steam and predicted the index would fall to 51.2.

Many traders expect the ECB may signal further action later this week to ward off deflation.

Vazquez, 74, is a respected oncologist who helped heal rifts inside the Broad Front in the late 1990s and led it to power in 2005.

The official Purchasing Managers' Index still indicated a modest expansion in activity but below forecasts.

The referendums reflect a growing public view that Switzerland is under siege from foreign workers eroding its Alpine culture.

The committee is looking at Britain's relations with Hong Kong 30 years after it agreed terms for handing the city over to China.

Strand won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for his collection of poems published in a book called Blizzard of One.

The airliner crashed in Ukraine in pro-Russian rebel-held territory on July 17, killing 298 people.

No reason was given from Kabul police for the police chief's resignation.

The city's top police officer resigned after the third attack in 10 days on foreign guest houses in the Afghan capital.

President Alassane Ouattara has received credit for overseeing Ivory Coast's economic renaissance, but has struggled to reform the army.

Amid its restructuring, the Procter & Gamble Co. is still the world’s largest consumer-products firm.

Separatists and the organizations behind rebel elections in east Ukraine will be hit with asset freezes and travel bans.

Australia’s highest court is hearing a test case challenging the government’s right to intercept asylum seekers’ boats outside its waters.

Suffering Ebola-like symptoms after a trip to Sierra Leone, a traveler was hospitalized for tests.