U.S. Treasury yields drop, stocks slide on weak factory data, tariffs
Benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yields fell to their lowest level since July 2016 on Tuesday, and all three major U.S. stock indexes were in the...
Winston Churchill’s grandson to vote against PM Johnson, risking expulsion from party
Nicholas Soames, the grandson of Britain’s World War Two leader Winston Churchill, said he would vote against Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Brexit on Tuesday,...
Boris Johnson loses majority ahead of key vote
The Conservative party no longer has a majority in UK parliament after an MP defected, hours before a major Brexit vote in the House of...
Rouhani rules out bilateral talks with U.S.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says the country will never have direct talks with the US, but would consider multilateral negotiations if all sanctions are lifted....
A child saved, but 15 dead, in Mali building collapse
Authorities have confirmed at least 15 people killed after a residential building collapsed in Mali’s capital Bamako. Lauren Anthony reports....
Pantomime villain Medvedev fueled by New York hate
Daniil Medvedev never sought to be the pantomime villain at this year’s U.S. Open but after being lustily booed by the New York crowd for...
Burkina Faso jails coup attempt leaders
Two senior allies of deposed former President Blaise Compaore were handed lengthy jail sentences on Monday for an attempted coup in 2015. Sam Holder reports....
Wall Street bogged down by weak manufacturing data, trade worries
U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday as data showed factory activity shrank for the first time since 2016 in August, renewing fears that a drawn-out trade...
Illinois joins lawsuit to stop T-Mobile, Sprint merger
Illinois has joined a multistate lawsuit aimed at stopping the merger of U.S. wireless carriers T-Mobile US Inc and Sprint Corp , the New York...
U.S. manufacturing contracts as trade war with China bites
U.S. manufacturing activity contracted for the first time in three years in August, with new orders and hiring declining sharply as trade tensions weighed on...