Reuters

Syria's military confirmed Tuesday that a plane on a reconnaissance mission had been shot down with a surface-to-air missile.

The $1.6 billion investment announced Tuesday could upset Donald Trump, who has criticized the automaker for manufacturing outside the U.S.

“We believe they have accomplished miniaturization of a nuclear warhead to mount it on a Rodong missile,­” a South Korean official said.

The world economy’s prospects will decline further unless authorities take stronger action, International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde warned Tuesday.

Guo Boxiong, who was vice chairman of China’s Central Military Commission until 2012, will now be prosecuted.

The attacker blew himself up near a school north of the Afghan capital on Tuesday, wounding 25 people, including three children.

Maricopa County slashed its polling sites to 60, down from 200 in 2012, and voters last month waited in line for up to five hours to cast ballots.

Shares were down in early trading Tuesday, pressured by losses on Wall Street against a backdrop of slumping crude oil prices.

Under the new rules, there will be a three-year limit on foreign companies bulking up on U.S. assets to avoid ownership requirements for a later inversions deal.

A U.S. judge granted final approval to the settlement after BP agreed in July to pay up to $18.7 billion in penalties.

Tom Staggs was widely expected to be the media and entertainment company's next chief executive, succeeding current CEO Bob Iger.

A Pentagon spokesman said a U.S. airstrike Sunday hit a meeting of high-level al Qaeda officials in Syria at which Abu Firas was present.

The New Jersey school’s board of trustees said Monday it would not remove his name and image from its public spaces and from its Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Toyota Motor Corp. is expanding a partnership with Microsoft Corp. to develop new internet-connected vehicle services for owners and dealers.

The decision Monday leaves intact a 2014 ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that largely upheld a lower court judgment awarding $187 million to the plaintiffs.

The National Transportation Safety Board was analyzing data recovered after the front of the train went off the tracks Sunday in Chester, Pennsylvania.

The two men were the first of a group of about a dozen who are expected to be transferred from the U.S. prison in coming weeks to two countries that have agreed to take them.

The U.S. high court unanimously rebuffed a challenge that could have shifted influence in state legislative races away from urban areas to rural ones.

Businesses ranging from Silicon Valley venture capitalists to a small Massachusetts solar installer say the solar and wind energy company owes them money.

Nearly 8,000 U.S. and Filipino troops began annual military exercises Monday amid tension over China’s greater assertiveness in the South China Sea.

Christine Lagarde said in a letter to Greece’s prime minister that the debt talks should continue despite damage from reports of a leaked transcript.

Prices held steady in early trading Monday after solid U.S. payroll data underpinned investor risk sentiment.

Adding to concerns of a global glut, U.S. production has remained stubbornly high despite steep cuts in drilling for new reserves.

The dollar was on the defensive early on Monday, nursing deep losses against the euro and yen.

Protests began after the leader of Poland’s ruling party backed a call by Polish Catholic bishops for a full ban on pregnancy terminations.

The No. 1 player in the world earned his 63rd career title on Sunday with a straight-sets win in Miami.

Abu Firas had many followers within the hard-line group and gave commentaries released by the Nusra Front on governance and religious jurisprudence.

Investment firm Blackstone Group denied a report saying it was considering acquiring BR Malls Participacoes.

The March attack on U.S. troops killed Marine Staff Sgt. Louis Cardin and wounded eight others.