Reuters

Reported comments by Chancellor Werner Faymann could complicate a Monday summit between the European Union and Turkey to discuss the refugee crisis.

Cheung Chi Ping was one of five Hong Kong booksellers specializing in gossipy publications about Chinese leaders to go missing last year.

A senior minister had earlier said the government would hold a public vote on same-sex marriage if it came to back to power after elections to be held later this year.

Traditional Japanese views that families are obliged to care for elderly relatives have long been an obstacle to rejecting or withdrawing life-prolonging treatment.

Both Hans Dieter Poetsch and Matthias Mueller reportedly were alerted about the illicit emissions-control software Sept. 8, well before VW’s biggest-ever scandal became public Sept. 18.

The National Guard is a key part of the U.S. effort to set up cybersquadrons.

Some officials worry confronting the tech sector could heighten distrust of American products, thus driving criminals and terrorists to seek foreign-made encryption.

The Anglo-South African financial-services company reportedly is working on a plan to divide itself into stand-alone firms based on its stake in the lender Nedbank Group Ltd. and other attractive assets.

Some American economic sanctions on Iran remain in place, which has contributed to “Iranophobia” among European financial institutions, one Iranian official says.

The U.S. Commerce Department investigated ZTE over contracts to ship hardware and software worth millions of dollars from some of America’s biggest tech firms to Iran’s largest telecom carrier.

China aims to boost its research-and-development spending to 2.5 percent of gross domestic product between 2016 and 2020, compared with 2.1 percent of GDP in the previous five-year period.

The host of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in the 1990s was elected speaker of Parliament in 1996 and was close to President Omar al-Bashir before a bitter power struggle and split in 1999.

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, a moderate Republican, took himself out of consideration for appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The attack on Col. Salem al-Milqat occurred in the restive district of al-Mansoura, which has seen several assaults on local security officials.

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer set a March 24 deadline for the carmaker to state whether it has found a fix that is acceptable to U.S. regulators.

The European Commission announced Friday the first payouts from a $3.3 billion fund to help Turkey pay for the needs of some 2.5 million refugees.

Hundreds of people were expected to gather at dawn in Oklahoma City's Boathouse District to pay respects to the U.S. energy entrepreneur.

With Slovakia due to take over the European Union's rotating presidency for six months from July, the election will also be watched closely in Brussels.

The best-selling novelist, who said his books were an effort to explain his life to himself, announced in February that he had pancreatic cancer.

Caitlyn Jenner enjoys a high level of esteem in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, but that hasn’t stopped some of its members speaking out.

The International Monetary Fund’s move will aid China’s effort to secure a bigger role for its currency by revealing quarterly reserve holdings of yuan among the IMF’s 188 member countries.

The Government Accountability Office investigation is the first by an outside agency into the perception that regulators are “captured” by the bankers they supervise.

The Chinese government also anticipates a budget deficit of 3 percent of gross domestic product in the world’s No. 2 economy this year, Premier Li Keqiang says.

Abortion providers contend the law was designed to shut down abortion clinics.

The activist hedge fund leading an investor revolt against Yahoo Inc.’s management team purportedly would like a majority on the company’s seven-member board.

Law enforcement groups cited a jailhouse phone call intercepted by New York authorities in which an inmate called Apple’s encrypted operating system “another gift from God.”

The government’s decision came after the money center bank’s $7 billion settlement resolving in 2014 federal and state civil claims related to mortgage bonds.

European Council President Donald Tusk says he sees the first signs that European Union members are overcoming their differences in tackling the year-old problem.

There is "accumulating evidence" linking the Zika virus to microcephaly and Guillain-Barre syndrome, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.