Oil prices were down slightly early Friday as the momentum behind a possible peace deal between Russia and Ukraine seemed to fade. Brent crude, the international standard, fell 0.3% to $67.47 a barrel ...

Asian and European stocks edged higher on Friday ahead of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s big speech. Japan’s Nikkei finished up 0.1%, and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong closed 0.9% higher.

Trading on the New York Stock Exchange ended as usual at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, but the closing bell was rung 1,400 miles away ...

A new instalment in Chinese action saga "Black Myth", a long-awaited indie favourite and stereotypically French cosplay have ...

The seatbelt sign pings on, trays rattle, drinks slosh in their glasses. The Barron's news department was not involved in the ...

Netflix's K-pop fantasy hit "KPop Demon Hunters", on course to be its most-watched original film, is an attempt to tell a universal story about shame and acceptance, its Korean-Canadian director said.

Climate and pro-Palestinian activists, including Greta Thunberg, on Friday temporarily blocked access to Norway's central bank and occupied the headquarters of the country's largest bank in protest at ...

UN rights chief Volker Turk said "it is a war crime to use starvation as a method of warfare", minutes after famine was declared in the Gaza Strip on Friday.

Bolivia's center-right senator Rodrigo Paz and right-wing former president Jorge Quiroga will face off in an October 19 runoff election after ending two decades of leftist rule, according to final ...

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz vowed Friday to destroy Gaza City if Hamas did not agree to disarm, release all remaining hostages in the territory and end the war on Israel's terms.

Germany's economy shrank in the second quarter by even more than had been feared, official data showed Friday, in a further bad sign for Europe's top economy after years of stagnation.

India's parliament has passed a sweeping law banning online gambling, after government figures showed 450 million people lost a combined $2.3 billion annually on apps.