Wall Street stocks finished a low-key session little changed Thursday as US Treasury bond yields retreated and a report pointed to higher holiday retail sales.

Mark Hoplamazian, CEO of Hyatt Hotels Corporation, discusses trends in business and leisure travel that affect the hotel industry.

India's former prime minister Manmohan Singh died Thursday aged 92 after he was admitted to hospital for an illness, the country's leader Narendra Modi said.

Two sailors have died in separate incidents in the treacherous Sydney to Hobart bluewater classic, organisers said Friday, while race favourite Comanche was forced to retire.

The US military said Thursday it had killed two members of the jihadist Al-Shabaab" group in Somalia in an airstrike.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average crawled higher to close Thursday's sleepy trading session in positive territory. While three major indexes started the post-Christmas session in the red, they stayed ...

Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim said he needs time on the training ground to iron out the Red Devils' flaws after a 2-0 ...

Peru has declared an "environmental emergency" after an oil spill that triggered a clean-up operation on a stretch of northern coastline popular with tourists.

Rangers' recent revival came to a crashing halt as a 2-1 defeat at St Mirren allowed Celtic to stretch their Scottish Premiership lead to 12 points on Thursday.

A US official said Thursday that early indications suggest a Russian anti-aircraft system struck an Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan, killing 38 people.

The Arab League regional bloc called on Iran on Thursday not to fuel "strife" in Syria, after the ouster of Tehran ally president Bashar al-Assad ended decades of rule by his clan.

Swiss airlines said Thursday that an engine problem might have been what caused one of its planes to make an emergency landing this week after smoke filled the cockpit and cabin.