Avaneesh Pandey

The world’s largest shipping company reported an 84 percent plunge in its 2015 profits amid a sharp drop in freight rates and oil prices.

The Japanese brewing giant has reportedly offered to buy the two beer brands that SABMiller and AB InBev want to sell to address regulatory concerns.

More than a quarter of the population currently lacks access to food in the country, once known as the "breadbasket of Africa" and now reeling under severe drought.

City and county officials approved sweeping plans Tuesday to address the crisis in the "homeless capital" of America, where nearly 44,000 people live on the streets.

Following a day of tumultuous trading in Japan — which saw investors fleeing toward safe assets — European stock markets traded in the red Tuesday.

As OPEC members Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia ramp up production in 2016, growth in demand for oil is likely to "ease back considerably."

On Tuesday, as investors scrambled toward safe-haven assets, yields on longer-term Japanese bonds fell below zero for the first time in history.

By 2028, planes that do not meet the new emission standards proposed by the International Civil Aviation Organization would have to be retired.

The U.S. president will call for $1.8 billion in emergency funding to combat the mosquito-borne disease that has been linked to severe birth defects in Brazil.

Footage of a collapsed 17-story building in the city of Tainan showed pillars reinforced with Styrofoam and empty tin cans.

Healthcare insurers in New York would be prohibited from covering the cost of the "fundamentally flawed practice" — therapy to change a person’s sexual orientation — for minors.

The 125-mile barrier, made of earthen wall and trenches, will be fitted with electronic surveillance equipment with the help of Germany and the U.S.

The rocket launch, ostensibly to put a satellite in orbit, has drawn widespread condemnation. China — North Korea’s closest ally — also expressed “regret” over the move.

The attack, the latest in a series of strikes carried out by the Taliban across the country, targeted a convoy of Pakistani paramilitary forces.

Seven others were injured in the shooting, which occurred early Saturday.

The meeting among representatives from the U.S., China, Afghanistan and Pakistan are aimed at hammering out a roadmap for peace talks with the Taliban.

According to the study, published in the journal Science, a shift from light-colored species, such as oak and birch, to darker-colored conifers stoked warming in Europe.

The photos, part of a cache of 2,000 images, were released in compliance with a 2004 lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.

The body of Giulio Regeni, which reportedly bore signs of torture, was found in a ditch in the suburbs near the Egyptian capital late Wednesday.

The discovery of colder-than-expected dust grains in a protoplanetary disk surrounding a young star could force scientists to reassess how planets form and evolve.

Shell’s profits slumped to $3.8 billion last year from $19 billion in 2014, as the company felt the brunt of the collapse in oil prices.

Experts said use of the controversial mitochondrial replacement therapy was ethically permissible “as long as significant conditions and principles” were met.

A raft of new investments was announced in the southern state of Karnataka, home to the tech hub of Bangalore, by industrialists and the federal government Wednesday.

The planned changes will apply to money invested by foreigners in domestic stocks and bonds, according to a Wednesday report.

NASA's Space Launch System — designed to ultimately carry humans to Mars and beyond — will ferry 13 microsatellites during its maiden mission in 2018.

Among the people acquitted in homicide cases last year, over two-thirds were minorities, according to the National Registry of Exonerations.

Charles Harvey Eccleston, a former energy department employee, tried to extract the “top secret” information from government computers through “spear-phishing” emails.

The price of a barrel of Brent crude may rise by over 50 percent by the end of the year, according to estimates compiled by Bloomberg.

A survey of 51 economists by the Financial Times now pegs the chances of the U.S. economy sinking into recession at 20 percent.