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The S&P 500 closed at a record high for the second straight day on Friday to cap its biggest weekly gain in three months as stronger-than-expected earnings from Google, Morgan Stanley and others overshadowed worry that earnings growth was...

The Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd (MCEI.BO) said on Saturday its managing director and chief executive officer, Shreekant Javalgekar, had submitted his resignation from the company, in which Financial Technologies (FITE.NS) holds a 26 percent stake. It did not...

West Ham midfielder Joe Cole believes England can win the World Cup next year with a team that "excites" him. Cole, 31, has 56 England caps and says he has not given up hope of being in Roy Hodgson's 23-man...

A suicide bomber killed at least five Yemeni soldiers on Friday in a suspected Islamist militant attack on a military base in the south of the country, a Yemeni military official said. Militants linked to Al Qaeda in the Arabian...

Syrian air force jets bombarded the eastern city of Deir al-Zor on Friday after heavy overnight clashes and the killing of one of President Bashar al-Assad's top military intelligence officers, activists said. General Jama'a Jama'a was shot dead on Thursday...

Two charred corpses recovered from Kenya's Westgate shopping mall are "highly likely" to be two of the gunmen who killed at least 67 people last month, a lawmaker probing the attack said on Friday. The September 21 mall attack, which...

Civil servants, hospital staff and transport workers went on strike on Friday in protest against Prime Minister Enrico Letta's government, causing disruptions in Rome and across the country. The strikes, organized by the far left Cobas union, are the first...

Expectations the Federal Reserve will keep its stimulus in place for longer following the confidence-sapping U.S. fiscal impasse pushed world shares to a five-year high and the dollar to an eight-month low on Friday. An acceleration in China's giant economy...

General Electric Co (GE.N) said on Friday that third-quarter profit and revenue fell, mainly due to its shrinking finance business and the negative effects of foreign currency. However, the U.S. industrial conglomerate posted a record backlog of orders and said...

Honeywell International Inc (HON.N), which makes airplane cockpit parts and a host of other electronics and equipment, reported a 4 percent increase in quarterly profit on Friday. The company posted third-quarter net income of $990 million, or $1.24 per share,...