Women dressed in traditional Bavarian clothing attend the annual beer tasting prior to the 2014 Oktoberfest in Munich. Photographer: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images. In Germany, home of Oktoberfest and a five-century-old brewing law, beer ...

Women dressed in traditional Bavarian clothing attend the annual beer tasting prior to the 2014 Oktoberfest in Munich. Photographer: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images. In Germany, home of Oktoberfest and a five-century-old brewing law, beer ...

Women dressed in traditional Bavarian clothing attend the annual beer tasting prior to the 2014 Oktoberfest in Munich. Photographer: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images. In Germany, home of Oktoberfest and a five-century-old brewing law, beer ...

A mountain of concrete rubble and twisted girders blocks the downtown intersection where Israeli F-16 fighter jets struck Gaza City a month ago, toppling the 13-story Al-Basha office tower. Across town, Mosa Abuaser's family sleeps in a dusty white tent ...

U.S. aircraft bombed Islamic State fighters near Baghdad in the latest expansion of an air campaign that began last month. The strike to the southwest of Baghdad was the first carried out as “part of our expanded efforts” to hit Islamic State targets, the U.S. ...

Phones 4u Ltd. filed for administrator's protection and will close its stores after failing to secure contract renewals with mobile carriers EE and Vodafone (VOD) Group Plc. Phones 4u, which has 5,596 employees and 550 standalone stores, has asked ...

It took just hours after the next-generation iPhones became available for online pre-order this morning for Apple fans to erase any doubt about whether they want phablets. Apple's website now warns of a three- to four-week delay for the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus ...

Within hours of Apple Inc. (AAPL:US) taking the wraps off its smartwatch, Electronic Arts Inc. (EA:US), the video-title publisher, is already working on ways to use the health-tracking features of the device to connect to games. The company is considering how ...

Sept. 9 (Bloomberg) -- A side-scan sonar image and underwater video of one of two sunken British ships from Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition to the Arctic are seen in material provided by Parks Canada, a federal government agency. The discovery's ...

U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has been under pressure from lawmakers to articulate a plan for dealing with Islamic State, which has swept across Iraq and carried out a campaign of terror, including beheading two U.S. journalists.

New Iraqi premier Haidar al-Abadi speaks during a press conference ahead of the formation of a new government in the capital Baghdad, on August 25, 2014. Photographer: Sabah Arar/AFP via Getty Images. Iraq's parliament approved Prime Minister Haidar ...

Twitter's transformation from a place to read about things to a place to buy them has reached a new milestone. The button that allows purchasing directly from tweets will be a available in limited test at first, with Twitter announcing Monday that it will handpick ...

Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN:US), the world's largest online retailer, cut the price of its Fire smartphone to 99 cents with a two-year contract through AT&T Inc., seeking to boost adoption of the device six weeks after it went on sale. The 32-gigabyte phone ...

U.S. President Barack Obama said world leaders will move to impose new economic sanctions against Russia even as Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the country's pro-Russian separatists agreed on a cease-fire. “We are hopeful,” Obama said of ...

Sony Corp. (6758) unveiled new mobile devices which also function as displays for PlayStation games as it adds features to win sales in a market dominated by Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. The marquee Xperia Z3 smartphone is waterproof and ...

The death toll from mudslides in Hiroshima rose to 50 today as rescue workers resumed searching for survivors. Thirty-eight people remained unaccounted for as of 8 a.m., according to Hiroshima police. The search, suspended earlier due to weather ...

Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at a news conference about the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, and outlook for the Justice Department's investigation. (This is an excerpt from the news conference. Source: Bloomberg).

The death toll mounted in the conflict between Ukraine's armed forces and pro-Russian separatists in the east as the military said it continues to push back the rebels. Thirty-four civilians were killed and 29 hurt in Donetsk, one of the main separatist ...

The bodies of some Ebola victims in the region of Liberia hit hardest by the outbreak can't be buried because there are no body bags, adding to the obstacles the West African nation faces as it tries to tame the virus. The northern county of Lofa, which borders ...

Israel and Palestinian militants agreed to extend their five-day truce for 24 hours for negotiations on a long-term accord to end violence that has devastated Gaza. The extension was reported in text messages by Wafa and Mena, the official news agencies of ...