Reuters

General Motors has requested its main Chinese supplier find an alternative source of components after a blast at a Kunshan factory killed at least 69 people.

Wall Street firms are close to buying a stake in the instant-messaging startup Perzo Inc. as they pursue an alternative to Bloomberg LP.

China made the disclosures about one of the worst incidents of unrest in the country in years on an official news site.

Growth in China’s services sector slipped to a six-month low in July as new orders rose at their weakest rate in at least a year.

Relations between Moscow and Brussels have deteriorated since the EU imposed sanctions on Russia over its involvement in the conflict in eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian separatists are fighting government forces.

The Hamas Islamist group's armed wing in the Gaza Strip said on Saturday it had no clear indication on the whereabouts of an Israeli soldier that Israel has accused them of abducting, adding he may have been killed during an ambush.

Shares of Procter & Gamble Co (PG.N), the world's largest maker of household products, rose 3 percent to $79.65 and helped to support the Dow and S&P 500 after it said it could sell about half of its brands in the next two years and cut jobs.

The U.S. House of Representatives planned to vote on Friday on revised border security legislation that would make it easier to deport Central American child migrants from the southwestern border, satisfying a key demand from conservative Republicans.

U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa in New York criticized the decision by Latin America's No. 3 economy to default on $29 billion in debt earlier in the week rather than pay the holdouts as ordered.

July marked the sixth straight month that employment has expanded by more than 200,000 jobs.

Investors look to payrolls for insight into rate policy.

China's recovery was broad based with 10 out of the 13 sub-indices pointing to improvement from the previous month.

The unemployment rate likely held at a six year-low of 6.1 percent, but could surprise on the downside.

Kerry was in New Delhi to revitalize ties and lay the ground for Modi's visit to Washington in December.

India has imposed a record 10 percent duty on gold imports, prompting smugglers to think of innovative ways to bring the metal into the country.

A bill to fund border security blew up in House Speaker John Boehner's face on Thursday, leaving Republicans in disarray and struggling to reconcile Tea Party demands with the need to deal with a humanitarian crisis on the southwestern border with Mexico.

Several hundred claims are expected to be filed at the start of a GM-financed program being launched Friday to compensate victims of a faulty ignition switch on some of its vehicles, lawyers say.

The CIA conceded it had improperly monitored computers used by the Senate Intelligence Committee in an investigation of CIA interrogation tactics and secret prisons for terrorism suspects after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Weak U.S. data contributed to the bearish tone as jobless claims rose more than expected in the latest week.

Even a short default will raise local companies' borrowing costs.

India's ultimatum has revived doubts about the future of the WTO as a negotiating body.

Gaza officials say at least 1,361 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have now been killed while Israel has lost 56 soldiers and three civilians.

Russia announced a ban on most fruit and vegetable imports from Poland and said it could extend it to the entire European Union.

China should set an economic growth target of 6.5-7 percent for 2015, below its goal for 2014, and refrain from stimulus measures unless activity threatens to slow sharply from that level, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday.

Argentina failed to strike a deal to avert its second default in more than 12 years after talks with holdout creditors ended without a settlement on Wednesday.

The 225-201 vote, along party lines, to authorize the suit will allow House lawyers to draft legal documents over a five-week summer recess starting on Friday.

European regulators are preparing what could be a stern challenge to Google Inc's (GOOGL.O) (GOOG.O) mobile software business in the coming months after a nearly four-year investigation into the company's Web search practices left rivals and European politicians dissatisfied.

The major bank was convicted of defrauding Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before the mortgage collapse.

Liberia announced on Wednesday the closure of all schools across the country and the quarantine of a number of communities in a bid to halt the worst Ebola outbreak on record spreading across West Africa.