Reuters

Iran successfully tested a new precision-guided ballistic missile, Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan was quoted as saying on Sunday, signaling an apparent advance in Tehran's attempts to improve the accuracy of its missile battery.

Listening to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his re-elected leftist government, you would think the revolution had been postponed, not canceled.

The Syrian army backed by allied militia have advanced in western Syria after heavy Russian airstrikes in areas around the main highway running through major cities, a group monitoring the war said on Sunday.

A loud explosion rocked the center of the Afghan capital on Sunday after an apparent suicide attack against a convoy of foreign troops, a security official said.

Belarussians head to the polls on Sunday to cast their vote in presidential elections all but certain to re-elect authoritarian incumbent Alexander Lukashenko for a fifth term.

The next chief executive is due to be chosen in 2017.

While China's rivalries with India and Japan will complicate progress, it has incentive to get things moving.

French Finance Minister Michel Sapin said Europe needed to mobilize all its existing financial resources before thinking about new funding measures.

Martin Winterkorn, the VW CEO who steared Europe's largest carmaker to crisis, has since resigned, and upstarts in the corporation are calling for change.

Several of the airstrikes hit areas in western Syria where ISIS has little presence, according to local observers.

A White House representative echoed remarks made by the FBI director, who said this week the administration would not seek a bill allowing it to crack into encrypted information.

"The lawyers are working right now to finalize the text and to prepare it for release," U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman says in the wake of a related release by WikiLeaks.

The legality of car-hailing services has vexed regulators in China where authorities say drivers are operating outside the law.

The pilot program will be expanded to include Shanghai, Chongqing and Beijing, as well as six other provinces and municipalities, according to the People's Bank of China.

Israeli security forces shot dead two Palestinians in East Jerusalem on Saturday, one of whom had stabbed two Israelis, police said, in a further wave of violence that has raised concerns about a new Palestinian uprising.

Turkish police have detained the editor of a newspaper close to an Islamic cleric foe of Tayyip Erdogan on allegations of insulting the president, media reports said, fuelling concerns about a clampdown on media ahead of a Nov. 1 election.

While the bulk of its offer will be in cash, Dell also plans to pay EMC shareholders with "tracking stock" that follows the value of the 20 percent of VMware that EMC does not own, sources said on Friday.

A U.S. congressional commission's criticism of China's human rights record did not "accord with the facts", the Chinese government said on Friday, the latest friction over a long-running thorn in relations.

The bank prevailed in a suit brought by a former vice president who claimed it ignored red flags about a potential client's fraud.

The presidential candidate's lead over Bernie Sanders has narrowed, according to a poll.

The Obama administration has cautioned U.S. bankers and foreign governments against rushing to invest in Iranian businesses.

The industrial giant is in advanced talks to sell a specialty finance portfolio, a person familiar with the matter said.

The maker of beers including Peroni, Grolsch and Pilsner Urquell said it now expects to reach annualized cost savings of at least $1.05 billion by 2020.

EU foreign ministers will take the decision Monday, diplomats said, ending three weeks of difficult talks.

Walter Scott, 50, was shot after fleeing a traffic stop in April. The shooting was caught on video and reignited a debate over police treatment of minorities.

A jump in oil prices also contributed to early gains Friday.

Annual tobacco deaths in China, mostly among men, reached 1 million in 2010 and could hit 2 million by 2030.

Underlining the havoc of recent months, the German state of Bavaria threatened to send migrants back to Austria.

"It is not the kind of economy in which you can make a mistake," Bank of England Gov. Mark Carney told meeting attendees in Peru.