AUSTRALIA

Oil fell back below $40 a barrel while China reported that its exports slumped 24 percent in February.

China's warning came as the top U.S. Air Force officer in the Pacific said Tuesday that daily missions would continue over a disputed territory.

Ubisoft's much-anticipated shooter “The Division” has gone live on PC, Xbox One and PS4 but the company's servers are struggling to meet demand.

The Malaysian prime minister's disclosure of an end date later this year came after relatives of passengers called for a recovery effort to continue.

Revised data on Japan's gross domestic product show it contracted 1.1 percent in the fourth quarter, not 1.4 percent.

Southeast Asia’s biggest budget airline, which reported its first profit in nine quarters, plans to boost flights to second-tier cities as competition heats up.

China reset its economic growth forecast for 2015 to a range of 6.5 percent to 7 percent.

A senior minister had earlier said the government would hold a public vote on same-sex marriage if it came to back to power after elections to be held later this year.

Stock markets across Asia and Europe rallied Friday as investor sentiment was buoyed by optimistic expectations from the U.S.

Japanese shares were lower Friday while U.S. shares rose a third straight day on Thursday, extending gains that started after Feb. 11, the low for the year.

During Wednesday’s 7.8 magnitude earthquake, which struck 500 miles from Padang in West Sumatra province, none of the country's 22 tsunami warning buoys were working.

The debris, possibly from a Boeing 777 plane, was found just days before the second anniversary of Flight MH370’s disappearance.

The yen held at around 113 to the U.S. dollar Thursday after a big gain Wednesday.

The Malaysian airline went missing two years ago, and few traces have yet turned up.

Principals of over 20 schools in New South Wales have committed their institutions into taking in Iraqi and Syrian refugee children, according to a report.

Investors are also hoping the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan announce more stimulus measures when they meet this month, following the lead of the People’s Bank of China.

Amid speculation that the pilot hijacked the plane to protest the conviction of Anwar Ibrahim, a distant relative, Ibrahim’s daughter called the link between the two men coincidental.

China cut bank reserve requirements for the fifth time in a year, injecting cash into the economy but also raising concerns about bubbles and “zombie” companies.

The multimillion-dollar search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 that went missing in March 2014 has stretched for nearly two years with no concrete clues about the plane’s whereabouts.

Automaker Nissan announced a plan Friday to buy back almost 7 percent of its stock, which had fallen 24 percent this year.

The number of fake bills in circulation has more than tripled in the past two years, and arrests in connection with counterfeiting have climbed eightfold.