The European Central Bank has carried out its first climate change stress test

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has conceded that a post-Brexit trade deal with the U.S. is not imminent as he revealed the decades-long U.S. ban on the import of British lamb would be lifted

Environmental activists who have repeatedly blocked Britain’s busiest highway face possible imprisonment after a judge granted an injunction against the protesters

Racism, climate change and the world’s worsening divisions will take center stage at the U_N_ meeting of world leaders, a day after Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the world was "on the edge of an abyss.”

The Kosovo-Serbia border has been blocked for a third straight day by ethnic Serbs protesting a decision by Kosovo authorities to start removing Serbian license plates from cars entering the country

Nigeria-born designer Joy Meribe opened Milan Fashion Week on Wednesday with her debut runway collection, a concrete success for a movement to promote diversity in Italian fashion just a year after launching

The House has approved legislation to fund the government, suspend its borrowing limit and provide federal disaster and refugee aid

Turkish broadcaster NTV says a Turkish warship issued a warning to a Greek research vessel to prevent it entering what Turkey considers its territorial waters

A Chinese real estate developer that is struggling to avoid defaulting on billions of dollars of debt says it will make an interest payment due this week to bondholders in China

Apple’s and Google’s cooperation with the Russian government’s efforts to suppress an app opposed to the ruling regime is escalating concerns about whether Big Tech’s pursuit of ever-higher profits has trampled their commitment to protecting civil rights

World shares and U.S. futures have advanced after Chinese developer Evergrande said it intends to make an interest payment on its debt that is due Thursday

Facebook's semi-independent oversight board says it will review the company's “XCheck," or cross check system following an investigation by The Wall Street Journal into the use of an internal system that has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules

The Asian Development Bank has lowered its outlook for economic growth in developing Asia to reflect renewed coronavirus outbreaks as variants spread, prompting governments to restore or keep in place their pandemic precautions

The House has approved legislation to fund the government, suspend its borrowing limit and provide federal disaster and refugee aid

The Justice Department is suing to stop American Airlines and JetBlue from coordinating their flights in the Northeast

A Delaware judge has begun a key hearing that could determine whether the Boy Scouts of America might be able to emerge from bankruptcy later this year

FedEx is getting hurt by the tight job market

The Biden administration is trying to choke the finances of criminal ransomware gangs by sanctioning a Russia-based virtual currency brokerage it says has been used by at least eight ransomware gangs to launder criminal proceeds

A U_S_ government committee that reviews foreign investment in telecom is probing videoconferencing company Zoom’s $14_7 billion deal for cloud call center company Five9 for national security risks due to “foreign participation.”

The British government has agreed to give financial support to a U.S. firm that produces much of the country’s carbon dioxide

Increasingly under fire from its clients, the Nielsen company says it will soon incorporate homes that have cut the cable cord and rely on broadband in its measurement of local TV viewership

Global investors are watching nervously as one of China’s biggest real estate developers struggles to avoid defaulting on tens of billions of dollars of debt

PSA Peugeot’s takeover of Fiat Chrysler to form the world’s fourth-largest carmaker has had its first executive casualty, with former Fiat Chrysler CEO Mike Manley stepping down from his role of head of the Americas

Stock indexes veered between small gains and losses in afternoon trading on Wall Street Tuesday following a sharp pullback a day earlier

Activision Blizzard, one of the world’s most high-profile video game companies, has confirmed a regulatory probe and said it is working to address complaints of workplace discrimination