Avaneesh Pandey

A Dutch court on Wednesday struck down a July 2014 ruling that ordered Russia to pay $50 billion in damages to former shareholders of the now-defunct Yukos oil company.

Nearly 330 million people in the country have been affected by severe drought triggered by a heat wave and scanty monsoon rains.

In Riyadh, the U.S. president faces a daunting task — mending strained relations with America’s traditional regional ally.

NASA announced Monday that its Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope had detected a brief flash of high-energy X-rays, possibly coming from a gravitational wave source.

Asian and European equities surged Tuesday as a recovery in oil prices boosted investors' risk-taking appetite.

Although terms of the deal were not disclosed, Asahi had earlier made a binding offer of $2.8 billion for the three brands.

During their meeting Tuesday, John Kerry and Javad Zarif are likely to discuss concerns aired by Iran over the perceived lack of relief from international sanctions.

Much like its peers, Goldman’s investment banking unit has been hurt by the near-simultaneous decline in bonds, stocks and oil prices, and low interest rates in the U.S.

The diamond, part of the crown jewels of the U.K., has long been at the centre of disputes, with at least four countries claiming ownership.

Rodrigo Duterte, who is currently ahead of his rivals in opinion polls, recently commented on the rape and murder of an Australian missionary in Davao in 1989.

Sacred Mount Paektu, which last erupted in 1903, is a potentially hazardous volcano straddling the border between China and the Korean Peninsula.

The militant group's monthly revenue stood at $56 million in March, down from $80 million in mid-2015, according to a new report by IHS.

If the U.K. votes to leave the 28-nation European Union, it would leave each household in the country $6,100 poorer every year, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer warned.

A distant "Einstein Ring" — a product of gravitational lensing — may provide scientists some much-needed clues to the nature of dark matter.

Under the deal announced Thursday, tax authorities in the U.K., Spain, Italy, France and Germany will share data on owners of offshore companies.

NASA and the European Space Agency announced Thursday that the Cassini spacecraft had detected “faint but distinct” evidence of dust from beyond our solar system near Saturn.

The government introduced a bill in parliament that aims to legalize physician-assisted suicide for people suffering from “grievous and irremediable” medical conditions.

The three-day meeting, which begins Friday, comes at a time when risks to global economic growth have intensified.

New research reveals that in 1917, an astronomer detected an exoplanet orbiting the van Maanen’s star — a white dwarf located nearly 14 light-years from Earth.

In the three-month period ending March 31, the world’s second-largest economy is estimated to have grown at a relatively sluggish pace of 6.7 percent.

The asset management firm, which has consistently outpaced its peers, also reported a 20 percent drop in profits compared with the same period in 2015.

Low inflation and the prospect of Britain’s exit from the European Union were factors in the BoE’s decision, which was widely expected.

The ratings agency cited “major negative implications” of the drop in global oil prices as a reason for downgrading the oil-rich nation’s sovereign credit rating.

If the proposal — to be unveiled Tuesday by the European Union — is approved, it will force companies to provide a country-by-country breakdown of profits and taxes.

The spacecraft, which was launched in 2009 and has since discovered over 1,000 exoplanets, entered an emergency mode last week.

A year after a group of Chinese researchers stoked controversy by tweaking a gene in a human embryo, another team reported using the same technique to create HIV-resistant embryos.

The International Monetary Fund, led by Christine Lagarde, forecast a “gradual” global growth of 3.4 percent for 2016 — a projection that is likely to be trimmed.

The deal to buy Zurich's Gategroup would help the Chinese conglomerate, which owns Hainan Airlines, expand its footprint in the global aviation industry.

The space telescope, which has, since its launch in 2009, discovered over 1,000 exoplanets, is currently functioning in an emergency mode.