Reuters

Newell Rubbermaid said it expects the deal to expand its presence in food and beverage, baby products and kitchen appliances.

President Jacob Zuma abruptly changes course after the stock market panicked at his Cabinet choice.

In the first Saudi election to allow female participation, 17 women were voted into public office in municipal elections.

The Chinese giant is acquiring Hong Kong's 112-year-old flagship newspaper and other media properties.

T&T Sports Marketing, mentioned in the U.S. indictment in the FIFA corruption scandal, has ties to 21st Century Fox.

Impeachment proceedings have begun in Congress, but the turnout in opposition demonstrations has fallen.

Der Spiegel reported Defense Secretary Ashton Carter had sent a letter asking for a bigger military contribution from Germany.

The German chancellor now speaks of "drastically decreasing" the influx as her party meets, fearing losses in coming elections.

The country's Assembly of Experts would be open to choosing a council of leaders instead of a single ayatollah, former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani says.

Seven members of a Shiite Muslim sect in Nigeria were reportedly killed after they attempted to block a convoy carrying the army chief of staff in the northern city of Zaria.

Colombia's attorney general says his office is investigating 150 cases involving former rebel fighters who have claimed they had forced abortions.

Investors seeking guidance on how to deal with the anticipated first U.S. interest-rate hike in a decade will struggle to find any helpful comparisons in history.

The incident is likely to heighten tensions between the two countries, which are at odds over Syria and the Turkish shooting down of a Russian military jet last month.

Deep in the historic climate-change agreement is an inelegant reference to what some analysts believe could eventually build a bridge to a global CO2-emissions trading mechanism.

The bombings came a day before a U.N.-brokered ceasefire is set to begin before peace talks are conducted in an effort to end the eight-month-long war.

In the June 26 bombing, a Saudi suicide bomber blew himself inside a mosque, killing 27 people.

President Xi Jinping skipped the main event that marked the alleged killing of 300,000 Chinese people by Japanese troops in 1937.

The brutal recession in the country likely played a big role in the electoral defeats suffered by many of the president's candidates last weekend.

The Swiss attorney general's office had earlier said they were arrested on suspicion of making, hiding and transporting explosives and toxic gas.

Germany already has agreed to provide six reconnaissance jets, refueling aircraft, a frigate and as many as 1,200 troops, but it has not planned any airstrikes.

The United Nations has invited Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's government and the Houthis to peace talks in Switzerland starting Dec. 15.

Western powers fear the central African nation could slide back into ethnic conflict amid unrest that began in April.

The move was designed to distance the formerly secular West African state further from its colonial past, according to the president.

Two foreigners, including a Spanish security officer, and four Afghan police were killed in the attack that lasted into the early hours of Saturday.

Ron Johnson's queries and evidence requests indicated his committee was looking for possible intelligence lapses in tracking Islamic extremists.

A State Department alert cited cross-border conflicts with Syria and Israel, anti-Western violence, suicide bombers and kidnapping, among potential risks to American travelers.

By 2020, more than 40 percent of the U.S. automaker's vehicles will be electrified.

The government this week finished notifying 21.5 million people affected by the breaches, but others remain unaware because of address changes or other reasons.

The Middle East country's leader accused Washington and its ally Saudi Arabia of wanting "terrorist groups" to join negotiations