Oil gains after Iran tensions, stocks at seven-week highs
Oil prices built on recent gains on Friday on fears any U.S. military attack on Iran would disrupt flows from the Middle East, while a...
PG&E to float $31 billion restructuring plan: Bloomberg
Power producer PG&E Corp will propose a $31 billion bankruptcy restructuring plan that will include two funds worth a total of $34 billion to cover...
Watch a Congolese band make music from garbage
Fulu Muziki is a musical group whose members may spend as much time combing through heaps of trash in Kinshasa as they do practicing their...
Stewards dash Ferrari’s hopes of Canada Grand Prix review
Formula One stewards on Friday dashed Ferrari’s hopes of overturning a penalty that denied Sebastian Vettel victory in Canada, ruling that the Italian team had...
U.S. bars China supercomputer firms, institute from buying American parts
The U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday it was adding several Chinese companies and a government-owned institute involved in supercomputing with military applications to its...
Conservative U.S. justices draw criticism by overruling precedent again
For the second time in six weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Friday overruled a decades-old legal precedent set by the court, this...
Fed officials face weak inflation, but split over what it means
U.S. Federal Reserve officials were divided Friday over how seriously to treat a slide in inflation, with one top policymaker saying the Fed was “close”...
Norway’s Saevik juggling studies and sport at women’s World Cup
When Norway’s Karina Saevik is not busy training or helping her country progress at the women’s World Cup, she can be found with her head...
Soft U.S. factory activity darkens economic outlook
U.S. manufacturing activity barely grew in early June and the service sector cooled, signs that President Donald Trump’s trade war with China could be weighing...
Erdogan’s chief antagonist seeks a lasting victory in Istanbul
Three months ago Ekrem Imamoglu was a little-known politician in a fringe Istanbul district who was attempting the near-impossible: to unseat Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s...