Japan's cabinet approved Friday legislation that would slap major fines on tech giants like Google or Apple if they block access to third-party smartphone apps and payment systems.

British mining giant Anglo American on Friday rejected a blockbuster $38.8-billion takeover bid from Australian rival BHP, arguing that it was too low.

French group TotalEnergies said Friday its first-quarter net profit rose three percent to $5.7 billion as "sustained oil prices" offset lower gas prices.

Microsoft and Alphabet stock jumped after earnings, while Nvidia, Snap, Amazon, and AMD also enjoyed gains. Intel stock fell.

Burkina Faso has suspended the BBC and Voice of America radio networks from broadcasting for airing a rights report accusing the army of attacks on civilians in its battle against jihadists.

Russia has arrested a journalist from the Russian edition of Forbes magazine over charges of spreading "false" information about Moscow's military offensive in Ukraine, his lawyer and Forbes said on ...

Bitcoin price has stalled since the much-anticipated ‘halving’ last week.

The Israeli army said Friday a civilian was killed near the country's northern border with Lebanon, as near-daily exchanges of fire with Hezbollah rage.

A centuries-old settlement submerged by the construction of a dam in the northern Philippines in the 1970s has reappeared as water levels drop due to a drought affecting swathes of the country.

When Togo's lawmakers passed a new constitution this month, opposition leaders quickly rejected the reform as another ploy by President Faure Gnassingbe to extend his family's more than five-decade ...

A normal if windy work day went south for one Japanese bureaucrat when documents containing residents' personal information were blown away in a real-life slapstick mishap.

The United States will withdraw some troops from Chad, the Pentagon has said, days after Washington agreed to move forces out of neighboring Niger.