Jobless claims arrived lower than forecasts for the week ending Dec. 21. Claims were 219,000, a decrease of 1,000 from the ...

Tesla shares were rising slightly, continuing a pattern of gains for the electric-vehicle maker. The stock gained 0.8% to ...

English Premier League results on Thursday: Bournemouth v Crystal Palace, Chelsea v Fulham, Newcastle v Aston Villa, Nottingham Forest v Tottenham, Southampton v West Ham (all 1500), Wolves v ...

Refugee camps ...

Australian authorities urged people in dozens of rural communities to leave home "immediately" Thursday to escape an ...

English Premier League table after Thursday's early match (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points): Liverpool 16 12 3 1 37 16 39 Chelsea 17 10 5 2 37 19 35 Arsenal 17 9 6 2 34 16 ...

An Iraqi delegation met with Syria's new rulers in Damascus on Thursday, an Iraqi government spokesman said, the latest diplomatic outreach more than two weeks after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's rule ...

U.S. markets reopened in the red on Thursday after the Christmas holiday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 122 points, or 0.3%, the S&P 500 dropped 0.3%, and the Nasdaq Composite lost 0.2%.

Syria's new authorities launched an operation in a stronghold of ousted president Bashar al-Assad on Thursday, with a war monitor saying three gunmen affiliated with the former government were killed.

Oil futures gain in quiet holiday trade, buoyed by hopes that Chinese economic stimulus will help demand in 2025. "Overnight news was focused on new Chinese stimulus," Scott Shelton of TP ICAP says in ...

Membership of Britain's upstart anti-immigration Reform UK party has overtaken that of the centre right Conservative Party for the first time, the party said on Thursday.

Kenya's police on Thursday denied involvement in the latest spate of abductions targeting government critics. Kenyan security forces have been accused by multiple human rights groups of carrying out ...