Reuters

U.S. President Barack Obama took his daughters shopping for books and sweet treats on Small Business Saturday.

“Worldwide, the Muslims were absolutely going wild,” the U.S. presidential candidate says at a campaign rally in Sarasota, Florida.

Behind Andy Murray and his brother Jamie Murray, Great Britain is close to their first Davis Cup title in 79 years.

The Anonymous collective of activist hackers has claimed responsibility for bringing down five government websites in Iceland in its anti-whaling protest.

One security source said the two attackers were riding a motor bike when they opened fire using machine guns at a police checkpoint in Saqqara, 22 miles south of Cairo.

The decree, posted on the Kremlin's web site, said a ban on charter flights from Russia to Turkey would be introduced, that Russian tour operators should stop selling trips to Turkey, and that imports of some Turkish products would be halted.

The previous Coptic pope banned worshipers from traveling to Jerusalem more than three decades ago, despite a 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.

The Syrian army captured territory from Islamic State group east of Aleppo including several kilometers (miles) of highway linking the city with the jihadists' de facto capital of Raqqa, Syrian state TV reported on Saturday.

North Korea appeared to conduct a submarine-launched ballistic missile test on Saturday but it ended in failure with no indication that the missile successfully ejected from the vessel and took off, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.

Some assault rifles used by the Islamic militants in the Nov 13 Paris attacks and later seized in police raids were produced in the former Yugoslavia's state arsenal, the company's director said on Saturday.

Philippine President Benigno Aquino has approved the purchase of 44 billion pesos ($932.74 million) worth of military equipment to help boost maritime security capability as tensions simmer in the South China Sea, a senior defense official said on Saturday.

The first identification of a suspect in the shooting between at least two groups of people came four days after New Orleans police said the shooting appeared to be gang-related.

The News Corp. head said he has "word" of the deal but no interest in buying the media properties.

Shoppers seemed to hold back as early Black Friday crowds were thin despite a wide range of deals being offered by retailers.

The expansion of the benefit comes after Mark Zuckerberg said he would take two months of paternity leave.

The Russian state monopoly, which supplies a third of Europe's gas, is accused of anticompetitive practices.

The sudden decline follows the candidate's false claims about Muslims celebrating the 9/11 attacks. Ben Carson also lost support.

Trading volume was modest, with 2.79 billion shares changing hands on U.S. exchanges, compared with the 7 billion average for the previous seven sessions.

Investigators are now looking at what Fabien Clain's role might be and how it fits with that of Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud, whom they believe to be a ringleader.

"This is accreditation to the International Renewable Energy Agency, nothing else. It is in Abu Dhabi, not a mission to Abu Dhabi," an Israeli official noted.

The German held off world-champion teammate Lewis Hamilton off the top of the Abu Dhabi timesheets as Mercedes dominated the final Friday practice session.

"Employment is safe provided we are selling cars," Bernd Osterloh says. "If we sell no cars, it will get relatively difficult."

The Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN sports network lost 3 million subscribers in 2015.

The Shanghai Composite index and the CSI300 both saw their biggest one-day drops in more than three months and ensured it was set to be a subdued post-Thanksgiving session for Wall Street.

An aide said the Kremlin had received a request from Ankara regarding a possible meeting between the two leaders at a climate conference in Paris.

The proposed goods and services tax, or GST, billed as India's biggest tax reform, has been stalled for months.

China, whose ships and tankers frequently sail the waters off Yemen and Somalia, has been an enthusiastic participant in the anti-piracy patrols.

At least five of the 19 people who have fallen ill this month have been hospitalized, but no deaths have been reported.

Trading is expected to remain subdued throughout the day as many market participants are away for the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday.