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India has become so desperate for fresh stocks of the onions it uses in spicy curries that it is turning to regional rival China and sanctions-hit Iran for supplies, and there is even talk of airlifts to ease soaring...

Syrian forces seized a suburb of Damascus on Thursday from rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad in a push that has shored up government control of the capital's outskirts, state television reported. Assad's forces, backed by Shi'ite fighters from...

Clothing chain Primark laid out plans on Thursday to pay more compensation for the Rana Plaza factory disaster in Bangladesh as victims and their families demanded other western brands follow suit. The collapse on April 24 that killed 1,129 people...

German and French accusations that the United States has run spying operations in their countries, including possibly bugging Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone, are likely to dominate a meeting of EU leaders starting on Thursday. The two-day Brussels summit, called...

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn said he would withhold his shares of Apple Inc from a $150 billion buyback that he has proposed for the iPhone maker. "There is nothing short-term about my intentions here," Icahn wrote in a letter to...

The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell less than expected last week, but a lingering backlog of applications in California makes it difficult to get a good read of labor market conditions. Initial claims for state...

U.S. stocks opened little changed on Thursday as investors grappled with a host of corporate earnings and muddled economic data. The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI was up 22.73 points, or 0.15 percent, at 15,436.06. The Standard & Poor's 500...

Factories in China boosted production this month, but U.S. manufacturing output fell for the first time in four years while the euro zone economy lost momentum, surveys on Thursday showed. The data suggested the world economy is still facing speed...

Ford Motor Co (F.N) boosted its full-year global profit outlook on Thursday, as its European picture brightened and stronger overseas operations sparked better-than-expected third-quarter results. The No. 2 U.S. automaker now expects 2013 pretax profit to top last year's $8...

Afghanistan and the United States have not yet agreed on several issues in a bilateral security pact, a senior Afghan spokesman said, raising the prospect that Washington may yet pull out all of its troops next year unless differences...