The fast food giant offered investors $6.2 billion in special dividends and buybacks, a move that S&P said would require the company to take on higher debt.
All Chinese citizens have a residence registration account that determines their access to education and other social welfare services.
A visa program that lets wealthy foreigners enter the U.S. by backing development projects has gone awry, with no clear way to measure success, critics say.
Nearly seven years after the Bank of England cut rates to a record low, the Bank has left them unchanged once again.
China’s State Council has announced that it is planning to shift to a registration-based system for IPOs from the current approval-based mechanism that has clogged up the pipeline.
A U.N. committee said torture and ill-treatment of suspects were still “deeply entrenched” in the country and also urged Beijing to end its crackdown on lawyers.
U.S. solar capacity is on track to nearly double by the end of 2016 to 41,000 megawatts as solar developers rush to tap a fading federal tax incentive.
The Ohio governor, a Republican presidential hopeful, said Wednesday that sooner or later, ground troops will be needed to defeat the Islamic State group.
A deal with the U.S. tech giant shows the limits of China's tech protectionism: Either Western businesses help, or the Chinese continue enduring dirty air.
In his book "The Art of the Deal," Donald Trump laid out a how-to strategy for dominating headlines. It reads like a blow-by-blow recap of his presidential campaign.
Namibian President Hage Geingob denied knowledge of any requests or plans by the Chiense to build a naval base in his country during an interview with BBC News.
Beijing residents responded to the city's first ever red smog alert with resignation, pragmatism and dark humor.
In 2013, over $258 billion in illegal funds was transferred out of China, making it the largest source of illicit financial outflow among all developing nations, according to a new study.
Miranda Kerr was unharmed after she fell off a banister posing for pictures during an appearance in China.
China’s foreign ministry said that the deployment of P-8 Poseidon spy plane amid South China Sea tensions did not serve the long-term interests of countries in the region.
On Wednesday, the country's sixth-largest bank by assets said it raised the capital through a 17 percent stake sale to 10 investors ahead of a planned IPO next year.
The findings from the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington-based think tank, were disputed by the company, which called the analysis "flawed."
Chinese imports fell for a thirteenth month, hurting commodity-linked stocks and currencies around the world.
As Beijing signals a red alert over smog, concerns about air pollution are high -- but worries about climate change are significantly lower.
The terror group recently released a chant in Mandarin aimed at recruiting Muslims from the Hui ethnic group in the northwest of the country.
The restructuring will see the military cut around 300,000 troops from its pool of around 2 million active personnel and create a Western-style military force.
Several times over the past week, the Indian capital has recorded air quality much worse than Beijing's. However, unlike the Chinese capital, it lacks provisions for issuing pollution-related alerts.
