Against the backdrop of the shale gas revolution in the United States and plummeting oil prices globally, how can investors spot where the energy market is heading?
According to research, 90 percent of the data that businesses use to determine what they sell or how to personalize a customer experience results from consumers unintentionally volunteering "indirect" data through on-line shopping, Facebook, Google searches, Smart Phone usage, etc.
India was aiming to make a deal to buy 63 French-made Rafale fighter jets for $7.7 billion during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's two-day visit to Paris, which began on Friday, Le Monde newspaper reported.
After years of public debate, Austria's government decided on Friday to ban smoking in cafes and restaurants in 2018.
The number of enslaved fishermen found on a remote Indonesian island has now reached nearly 550, after a fact-finding team returned for a single day to make sure no one had been left behind after hundreds of men were removed in a dramatic rescue.
Clad in robes and pointed hats, would-be sorcerers wave their wands and cast spells as they hone their magic skills at their very own college of wizardry.
Four Japanese whaling ships set sail from a port in the country's northeast on Friday aiming to hunt up to 51 minke whales under what Japan describes as a "scientific research" whaling program.
A head-on collision in Morocco between a truck and bus carrying athletes killed at least 31 people and left nine injured on Friday, officials and media reports said.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez held closed-door talks on Thursday evening, the highest-level meeting between Washington and Havana since they broke off diplomatic relations in 1961.
The traffic check starts like any other: An officer pulls over a motorist, walks up to the driver's side window and asks for license and registration. What happened minutes later appears to take place without any obvious sign of provocation or conflict that would lead to a fatal shooting: The driver opens the door and runs, and the officer chases after him.
Talks between representatives of the Syrian government and some members of the opposition ended in Moscow on Friday with no sign of a breakthrough.
The Red Cross and UN flew medical aid into Yemen's capital on Friday for the first time since Saudi-led coalition forces began airstrikes against Shiite rebels more than two weeks ago.
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