Global investment firm KKR is set to take a stake in Germany’s Axel Springer, the publisher of the mass-circulation Bild daily among others, in what is described as a strategic partnership.

A group of retired public employees has defied Puerto Rico’s government and reached a deal with a control board overseeing the island’s finances as it works to restructure more than $50 billion in pension liabilities.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s trip to Tehran represents the highest-level effort yet to de-escalate tensions between the U.S. and Iran.

Wage growth beat market and economist expectations in the three months from February to April.

Unrest, economic sanctions and infrastructure disruptions are crimping the world’s supply of oil – yet prices, rather than rising, remain far cheaper than anticipated.

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Brexit and the “horror show” of the British government leadership contest are signs that Scotland needs to chart a different path, probably outside the United Kingdom.

Vietnam’s government says it is taking more steps to prevent Chinese companies from using illegal “Made in Vietnam” labels to avoid high tariffs that have been imposed by the United States on Chinese goods.

Hungarian rescue officials are soon set to start the difficult process of raising a sunken tour boat from the floor of the Danube River.

More than a third of Europe’s fastest-growing tech firms are based in the UK, says research published ahead of London Tech Week.

With its bare cells, the Tokyo Detention House looks much like a high-security prison, but those who get incarcerated here, including former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn, have not been convicted of any crime.