Economists and traders are at odds over whether Australia’s central bank will deliver another interest-rate increase in May ...

PetroChina Co., the country’s biggest natural gas supplier, will keep its contract prices largely unchanged this year to shield industrial consumers from surging global energy prices due to the Middle ...

Banco de Brasilia SA canceled an extraordinary shareholder meeting that was to feature a vote on a capital increase of as ...

Jesse Jackson Jr., a son of the late civil rights leader, fell short in his campaign to get reelected to Congress in the Illinois primaries after a race marked by heavy spending by both artificial ...

Aluminum, one of the metals most directly affected by the war in Iran, is struggling to attract buyers in China after prices ...

Growing global adoption of electric vehicles helped avoid the consumption of 2.3 million barrels of oil per day last year, ...

Israel’s killing of Ali Larijani, a veteran Iranian politician known for his pragmatism and long experience helming national ...

A major storm is strengthening off Australia’s northern coast, threatening to bring destructive winds and heavy rains as it heads for landfall in the North Queensland mining region later this week.

Japan’s exports grew at a slower pace, as car shipments to the US fell and as demand in China slumped due to the Lunar New ...

The Academy Awards drew fewer spectators to its broadcast on Sunday night compared with a year ago, in a ceremony that was ...

Reductions in child mortality have slowed around the world and even stalled in some places, with communities in sub-Saharan ...

Iraq agreed with Kurdistan to resume oil exports through a pipeline in the semi-autonomous region, a boost for OPEC’s ...