Avaneesh Pandey

The bank earned $6.1 billion in pre-tax profits in the third quarter, nearly 18 percent over analysts' estimates.

Police are now on the hunt for the suspected gunman, identified as Jarrett Jerome Moore. Identities of the victims have not been revealed.

Data on China's services sector for the month of October showed an unexpected slowdown even as the manufacturing sector continued to contract.

The Metrojet passenger plane that crashed in the Sinai Peninsula Saturday, killing all 224 on board, broke apart in the air, according to a senior Russian aviation official.

Leaders of Japan, South Korea and China came together at a meeting -- the first such event in over three years -- in Seoul.

The election comes just months after an inconclusive vote in June, when President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party failed to retain its majority in Parliament.

However, the inflation rate of zero percent -- a sign of less than robust demand in the bloc -- is likely to put more pressure on the European Central Bank to provide more stimulus.

NASA said that the hole -- formed as a result of depletion of the crucial, radiation-shielding ozone layer -- covered an area larger than the continent of North America.

The deal, reported by Bloomberg, is likely to be similar to the one China currently has with the United States.

The deal, which was described by Sen. Rand Paul as "the worst of Washington culture," will help avert a government shutdown and debt defaults.

Earlier on Friday, the central bank had decided to hold back on announcing additional stimulus measures despite weak economic indicators.

In a new report, Amnesty International said Australian officials paid human traffickers to turn back boats carrying refugees and mistreated asylum-seekers.

Rise in bad loans -- triggered by faltering Chinese growth -- hit the lender, which reported a drop in profits for the first time since the peak of the financial crisis in 2009.

Angela Merkel's eighth trip to China in her capacity as the chancellor is aimed at expanding trade relations with the world’s second-largest economy.

The GDP data, to be released at 8:30 a.m. EDT Thursday, is likely to show a sharp decline over the second quarter, when the economy registered a brisk 3.9 percent growth.

The process is at an early stage and may not yield an agreement, according to the Wall Street Journal. However, if the deal materializes, it would create a $330 billion company.

Investors in Asia and Europe exercised caution Tuesday, as uncertainty loomed over the outcome of central bank meetings in the United States and Japan.

Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce described as a "farce" a WHO report linking red meat consumption to cancer.

IndiGo started operations in 2006 and has since captured nearly 40 percent of the domestic market, becoming the only consistently profitable airline in the country.

The Violation Tracker database, compiled by think tank Good Jobs First, tracks companies that have violated U.S. environmental, health and safety laws.

The third India-Africa Forum Summit kicked off in New Delhi Monday, as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought to highlight the nation's “strong emotional link” with Africa.

Since 2000, the seismically active region has witnessed three devastating earthquakes that have killed a total of nearly 120,000 people.

The World Health Organization warned Monday that processed meats such as bacon, sausage and ham pose as big a cancer risk as cigarettes.

The hunt, which was originally scheduled to last a week, was called off in just two days after a total of 295 bears were killed.

General Motors and the United Auto Workers union had been in talks since July over the latter's demand to shorten the service time required for workers to reach top pay and the elimination of a two-tier wage structure.

Leaders of 11 European Union nations and three non-EU countries finalized a 17-point plan to manage the massive influx of refugees in the Balkan Peninsula.

The Shanghai Composite Index plummeted over 3 percent in afternoon trade, as profit-taking by traders wiped off early gains.

The UN is concerns about a proposal by some Arab nations to classify the Western Wall -- one of the holiest sites in Judaism -- as part of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem.

This was Syrian President Bashar Assad's first foreign visit since 2011, when civil war broke out in the country.