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Schools, public transit and shopping centers are returning to normal in Brussels after five days of highest level alert, although the government will make another assessment next Monday.

The government's pay hike is part of a larger stimulus plan designed to lift demand.

Amid a wave of steel imports and sagging oil prices, the steel giant will temporarily idle operations at an Illinois plant and indefinitely lay off about 2,000 workers.

Interest rates have been held at 0.5 percent since March 2009, and most economists do not expect a rate hike before the second quarter of 2016.

Apple has reportedly secured the support from the country's four top banks in starting its mobile payment service in the world's No. 1 smartphone market by February.

The state-backed Russian gas giant has suffered a massive decline in its value, losing over $300 billion since May 2008.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull ordered law enforcement officials to test their readiness for a mass casualty attack in the wake of the Nov. 13 Paris attacks.

Authorities in Brussels have not released the names of the third and fourth people they charged in connection with the Paris terror attacks.

Sony’s Xperia Z5 range of smartphones goes from the Compact to the Premium, with fingerprint readers, 23-megapixel cameras and 4K screens.

François Hollande and David Cameron are presenting a united front against the Islamic State group, but challenges remain, particularly with regard to Syria's Bashar Assad.

Strong sales in the U.K. have bolstered the game's popularity.

The monitoring group Tell MAMA (Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks) said the vast majority of hate crime targets are Muslim women ages 14 to 45.

The 67-year-old heir to the British throne made the comments ahead of his speech at the opening ceremony for COP21, the United Nations conference on climate change on Nov. 30 in Paris.

David Cameron met François Hollande in Paris Monday and said the two countries will increase counterterrorism cooperation and intelligence-sharing.

Divisions among Syrian opposition factions are often cited as one of many obstacles facing diplomatic efforts to end the conflict.

On Monday, British Prime Minister David Cameron will announce a 178 billion pound ($270 billion) investment in defense equipment and support over the next decade.

The 56-second spot was created by the Church of England to promote its new #JustPray campaign, but an agency that handles cinema ads says it may offend viewers.

The terror attacks and ongoing state of emergency in France will not halt international talks on climate change scheduled for Nov. 30-Dec. 11, officials said.

During the process, the Arak heavy-water reactor will be reconfigured so it cannot yield fissile plutonium usable in a nuclear bomb.

The FBI is taking alleged threats centered on the World Wrestling Entertainment event in Atlanta seriously, but says it has no "credible" proof of a possible attack there.

Meet Deen Squad, which is crushing Facebook with the video "Not A Terrorist," inspiring Muslim youth.