Avaneesh Pandey

The deal between Iran and the P5+1 nations -- the U.S., the U.K., France, China, Russia and Germany -- was struck in July after protracted negotiations.

Leaders of the right-wing, anti-Islam group accused German Chancellor Angela Merkel of turning the country into a “jungle camp” through her open-door policy for refugees.

Rachel Kyte, the World Bank special envoy for climate change, said a $100 billion limit on climate aid to developing nations was "picked out of the air."

Elections for the state assembly in Bihar, widely seen as a test of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's popularity, kicked off Monday.

According to a Bloomberg report, which cited sources, the Belgian brewing giant has discussed raising its bid to $66 a share, which would value SABMiller at $107 billion.

According to the United Nations, the group is now in control of more territory in Afghanistan than at any point since 2001.

European stock indexes failed to carry on last week's rally, while U.S. equities traded in a tight range and most Asian markets closed higher.

Sending humans to the red planet would involve crossing three "thresholds," the space agency said, in a new report. NASA aims to establish "Earth independent" habitats on Mars as early as the 2030s.

Investors were buoyed by the minutes of the U.S. Federal Reserve's September meeting that cast doubts over the chances of a rate hike this year.

Twenty nations most vulnerable to climate change have joined to form the "V20" group, and urged immediate action on a "fundamental human rights issue."

"If you don’t make it at Tesla, you go work at Apple," the Tesla Motors CEO said, in an interview with a German newspaper.

The United Nations announced names for a proposed national unity government in Libya, but warring factions in the country seemed reluctant to implement the decision.

Across Asia, energy shares closed higher, while in Europe, major indexes were up for the fourth straight session. U.S. stock futures pointed to a positive opening.

The anti-trafficking mission marks a shift from a surveillance-and-rescue phase, and now involves the interception and seizure of traffickers' vessels.

A successful merger of the two companies would create a brewing giant worth $250 billion that would produce a third of the world’s beer.

The High Court of Australia ruled that the BRCA1 gene -- which acts as a tumor suppressor and can increase risk of breast and ovarian cancer, if mutated -- is not a "patentable invention."

The move, which was widely expected, came amid growing signs of recession in the Japanese economy and continuing worries over deflation.

According to a report by Bloomberg, which cited people familiar with the matter, SABMiller rejected an informal takeover offer -- worth slightly over 40 pounds a share -- from rival Anheuser-Busch InBev.

Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald were awarded the Nobel Prize for experiments that demonstrated neutrino oscillations, a discovery that proved that the subatomic particles were not without mass.

While Asian stocks extended their gains Tuesday, European markets were weighed down by weak German factory data released earlier in the day.

The deal is the latest in a wave of consolidations the semiconductor industry has seen in recent months.

A team of researchers has found that animal populations in the exclusion zone around the ill-fated power plant are now much higher than they were before the accident in 1986.

Hadi al-Amiri, a leader of the Iran-backed Badr Organization, said Monday that Russia, unlike the U.S., “is moving in a very serious way” against the Islamic State group in Syria.

Asian and European stocks traded sharply higher Monday, after weak U.S. jobs data cooled expectations of an imminent rate hike by the Federal Reserve.

A new report warned that an increase in reliance on digital systems had left nuclear facilities across the globe exposed to cyberattacks.

More Wall Street executives should have been held responsible for the 2008 financial crisis, the former Federal Reserve chairman said.

Slowdown in China, a drop in global commodity prices, and an impending rate hike in the U.S. would continue to affect the region's economies, the World Bank said.

Former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley called for "specific prescriptions" on stopping gun violence, during a campaign speech in New Hampshire.

A design for a 3D-printed pressurized shell of multi-layered ice -- named the "Mars Ice House" -- has won the top prize in NASA's Mars Habitat contest.