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Hull and Swansea have been fined £20,000 by the Football Association for the mass confrontation between players during the 1-1 draw earlier this month. An altercation between Ashley Williams, Tom Huddlestone and Yannick Sagbo in the last 10 minutes sparked...

European shares rallied on Thursday after the Federal Reserve sugar-coated the decision to start winding down its crisis-era stimulus with a promise to keep record low interest rates in place even longer than previously signaled. After months of agonizing, investors...

Honda Motor Co will introduce a new version of its subcompact Fit and the automaker's luxury brand Acura will show its TLX midsize sedan as a prototype at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit next month. The Fit's...

Government forces were battling rebels to keep a foothold in a flashpoint town on Thursday, in a widening conflict that may split South Sudan along ethnic lines and has prompted an east African bid to mediate. Five days of fighting...

Neighbor turning on Neighbor, villages razed to the ground, hundreds of victims shot or hacked to death with machetes. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, visited violence-racked Central African Republic on Thursday, where she will feel the...

SYRIA'S PRESIDENT BASHAR AL-ASSAD (L) RUSSIAN DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER MIKHAIL BOGDANOV (R) A Russian diplomat signaled on Thursday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should refrain from statements suggesting he might seek re-election because it could fuel tension before planned peace...

The Muslim Brotherhood denounced the Egyptian authorities on Thursday for charging former President Mohamed Mursi and other Islamists with terrorism and conspiring with foreign groups, saying the allegations were "risible". The Brotherhood also reiterated calls for all nations to put...

Oil workers have sought protection at a U.N. base in South Sudan's Bentiu oil producing area, the U.N. Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said, after a minister said crude output was unaffected by five days of conflict in the...

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday embarked on the risky task of winding down the era of easy money, saying the U.S. economy was finally strong enough for it to start scaling down its massive bond-buying stimulus. The central bank modestly...

AstraZeneca (AZN.L) has agreed to buy Bristol-Myers Squibb's (BMY.N) stake in the companies' diabetes joint venture for up to $4.1 billion in a deal that will help return the group to growth, sending its shares to an new high. AstraZeneca...