Reuters

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull ordered law enforcement officials to test their readiness for a mass casualty attack in the wake of the Nov. 13 Paris attacks.

The law's supporters said the measure ensures continuity of care while opponents say it serves almost no public health value and is intended to shut clinics.

Tehran and Moscow have stepped up ties following a landmark nuclear deal in July between Iran and six world powers including Russia and the United States.

The billionaire revealed a 7.13 percent stake in Xerox in a securities filing Monday, making him the No. 2 shareholder of the 109-year old company.

Congressional researchers have estimated that inversion deals, left unchecked, will cost the U.S. Treasury nearly $20 billion in the next 10 years.

This month, a jury in Chicago convicted a high-frequency trader of commodities fraud and spoofing in the first U.S. criminal prosecution of the practice.

A source said it was too soon to say whether the belt was a clue to the whereabouts of Salah Abdeslam, whose brother blew himself up during the Paris terror attacks.

Meanwhile, world equity markets slipped, with U.S. stocks ending slightly lower in quiet trading after a week of strong gains.

Divisions among Syrian opposition factions are often cited as one of many obstacles facing diplomatic efforts to end the conflict.

The election of the so-called Umbrella Soldiers reflects continued support for political change in the Chinese-ruled city.

The average price of gasoline in the United States resumed its slide over the past two weeks, dropping 11 cents to $2.14 a gallon, the lowest since late January.

A group of wealthy Republican donors are lining up behind the effort to knock Donald Trump from the top of the polls.

Iraq announced intelligence and security cooperation last month with Russia, Iran and Syria to counter the threat from Islamic State.

Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board outbid other buyout firms in an auction for the animals supplies company, said people familiar with the matter.

Rory McIlroy won the Dubai DP World Tour Championship on Sunday, and is Europe's top money earner in 2015.

There is expected to be heightened security for the upcoming Olympics following the Paris attack.s

Executives of consumer-products giant Procter & Gamble should consider breaking up the company to improve its beleaguered performance, Barron's financial newspaper said.

A surge in street violence since Oct. 1 has challenged Israel's security system and alarmed the United States.

"Serving a jail term is in Jason Rezaian's sentence but I cannot give details," IRNA quoted the spokesman, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, as telling journalists during a weekly news conference in Tehran.

About 900 candidates are competing for the 431 seats in 18 district councils, where pro-Beijing parties currently hold a majority, at a time when people are divided over the pace of political reform.

North Korea fired scores of artillery shells at South Korea's Yeonpyeong island on Nov. 23, 2010, killing four people including two civilians in one of the heaviest attacks on its neighbour since the Korean War ended in 1953.

China will continue to construct military facilities on artificial islands it is building, Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin told a news conference in Kuala Lumpur.

The Community declaration was signed by leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Kuala Lumpur, this year's host of the group's annual summit. 

The landslide happened in the early hours in Hpakant, an area that produces some of the world's highest quality jade, but the mines and dump sites for debris are rife with hazards.

Four civilians were killed in northern Cameroon in a suicide bomb assault by suspected Boko Haram militants

A fire on the 50th floor of the famed Chicago skyscraper injured five people.

While it is uncommon for the Midwest to see such heavy snowfall so early in the year, the storm is not unprecedented.

Islamist opposition leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, former legislator from former premier Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party, were hanged.

With the so-called natural interest rate in the United States now near zero, and equilibrium rates in other countries around the world also lower than in the past, central banks have "significantly less room to maneuver."