Reuters

Bankers' biggest worry is also their greatest protection against upstarts: regulation.

Recapturing Ramadi, a city that fell to the ISIS in May, would be a key victory for Iraq's armed forces.

Former ministers in the cabinets of ex-Presidents Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Mohammad Khatami are among those seeking office.

Saturday's sweep marks the country's biggest anti-corruption investigation in decades and concerns alleged offenses dating back to 2004.

The deal fell through after Zahran Alloush, through whose territory a convoy was due to pass, was killed in an airstrike Friday, Lebanese Hezbollah's TV station said.

Two Belgian Dutch-language newspapers, De Morgen and Het Laatste Nieuws, cited documents they said showed staff was seriously concerned about Bilal Hadfi's extremist views.

Recapturing Ramadi would be one of the most important victories achieved by Iraq's armed forces since ISIS swept across a third of the country in 2014.

The fatal collapse in an industrial park was not a natural disaster, local authorities say.

The Sanctuary Movement made headlines in January by providing refuge in Philadelphia to a Honduran woman whose two children were born in the United States.

J. Michael Pearson's illness comes as investors are turning up pressure on the Canadian drugmaker to provide a more detailed plan on how it will grow profits in 2016.

The recall, which began on Dec. 14, affects up to 185 vehicles manufactured from Sept. 8 and Nov. 11, 2015.

Injuries and damage are unknown, as communications can be slow in the remote area around the quake’s epicenter.

A U.N.-brokered agreement could cover 2,000 fighters, including some associated with the Islamic State group and the al Qaeda-allied Nusra Front.

Narendra Modi visits his counterpart Nawaz Sharif, becoming the first Indian leader to visit Pakistan in more than a decade.

Excluding financial companies, the combined revenue of state-owned enterprises in the first 11 months fell 6.1 percent from last year to this year.

Several rebel leaders have been killed since Russia began its major aerial campaign Sept. 30 in support of its ally, Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Despite a boom in mergers and acquisitions, hedge funds focusing on corporate restructurings have had a very challenging year.

Six Kurdish militants and one Turkish soldier were killed during fighting in the town of Cizre Friday.

The Roman Catholic Church leader counseled the world in his Christmas message Friday to stand together against extremists who he described as causing immense suffering in many countries.

The U.S. State Department has expressed "serious concerns" about the measure, which it argued would do more harm than good in dealing with the threat of terrorism.

About 1,000 people gathered outside Thailand's embassy in Yangon Friday, a day after a Thai court sentenced the two to death for the 2014 murders of two British tourists.

Emergency declarations were issued in Mississippi and Tennessee, the two states hardest hit by severe weather.

Harvesting body parts from a living captive, to save the life of a Muslim, is permissible, the group's scholars purportedly wrote.

Washington's strategy in Syria has shifted from trying to train fighters to supplying groups headed by U.S.-vetted commanders.

Airstrikes were conducted against insurgent positions in the last district they hold in the center of the Sunni Muslim city, state TV said.

Nearly half of U.S. high schoolers reported being hazed, one study found, with numbers highest for those in sports, ROTC and band.

The recalls cover about 413,000 vehicles in the U.S.; 32,000 in Canada; 16,000 in Mexico; and 108,000 outside North America.

The tech giant recently won $548 million from its rival in a patent dispute, but claims it is still owed supplemental damages and interest.

Current drones are unable to take off and land from confined spaces at sea and then stay airborne for long periods.