Reuters

Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca and his wife had ordered local police to stop the students from disrupting a political event that day.

Germany, Europe's dominant economy, is resisting calls for it to spend more to kick-start growth.

The results of the stress tests on 130 banks by the European Central Bank are due to be unveiled on Sunday.

The products under review include an infusion pump and implantable heart devices.

Cleaning up India's grubby business climate is top of the agenda for both regulators and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.

Several individuals convicted of terrorism offences in Britain had raised funds in public, purportedly for charitable purposes.

U.S. home resales raced to a one-year high in September, the latest indication the housing market recovery is gradually getting back on track.

McDonald's Chief Executive Officer Don Thompson owned up to some corporate image problems on Tuesday after it posted a nearly one-third drop in quarterly profit and warned its global restaurant sales would fall again in October.

Parliament voted to approve air strikes against IS in Iraq last month, after a request from the Iraqi government.

The policymakers could decide at the December meeting to go ahead with the purchases, but such a step is not certain.

Last month's data showed that borrowing between April and August was 6 percent higher than a year earlier.

The collision occurred minutes before midnight Moscow time as de Margerie's Dassault Falcon jet was taking off for Paris.

Alabama's Republican state house speaker was indicted on 23 criminal counts of corruption by a grand jury, court records released on Monday show.

New York Federal Reserve Bank President William Dudley said banks should pay employees in debt securities for their annual incentive pay.

Poland's parliamentary speaker, Radoslaw Sikorski, has been quoted as saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to Poland's then leader in 2008 that they divide Ukraine between themselves.

The sharp week-long drop in global stocks and bond yields abated on Friday, though investors remained on edge.

The retailer, once the darling of the sector, has suffered over the last year with its big out-of-town stores losing favor.

Britain's future in the 28-country trading bloc has been thrown into question by Prime Minister David Cameron.

Private news outlets say diminishing interaction with the government has made their jobs harder.

Joko Widodo, a former mayor of the city of Solo and governor of the capital, is untested on the national and international stages.

Dozens still missing on the snow-covered Himalayan slopes.

Without a breakthrough in the talks Tuesday, "I'm worried we will see the standoff worsen and get violent," a Hong Kong-based professor says.

North Korean troops approached the military border Sunday and did not retreat after South Korean troops fired warning shots.

The model and singer Joanne Borgella had chronicled her cancer treatment during the past year or so via Facebook.

Over 500 people have been rescued from a route popular with foreign tourists that circles Annapurna, the world's tenth-tallest peak.

Raids on Islamic State around Kobani have been stepped up, with the fate of the town seen as an important test for the anti-ISIS campaign.

Yuko Obuchi is expected to resign Sunday, over allegations that groups backing her misused political funds, in a blow to PM Shinzo Abe.

Red-clad "Chavistas" rallied in central Caracas Saturday, while across town an opposition protest failed to attract as big a crowd.

Up to 200 members of Sweden's military are scouring the waters near Stockholm for suspected 'foreign underwater activity'.