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Sabre Insurance Group lost more than a third of its market cap on Thursday, with the motor insurer's shares hitting a record low after it issued a profit warning and flagged dividend cuts as the industry struggles with higher claim costs....

China-based drug developer BeiGene said on Thursday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has delayed its decision on the company's cancer drug as it was unable to conduct inspections in the country due to COVID-related travel curbs....

Europe faces a "really tough" winter in the face of soaring energy costs which might require fuel rationing, Shell CEO Ben van Beurden said on Thursday....

Negotiations to try to avoid a parliamentary confidence vote that could trigger the collapse of the Italian government failed on Thursday after Prime Minister Mario Draghi said the vote must be held, a statement said....

Twitter Inc's fight with Elon Musk to enforce his $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform could attract scrutiny from the U.S. securities regulator over whether Musk has misled the market during the course of the deal....

Several Chinese cities have doubled down on COVID-19 testing, ordering residents to have their mouths swabbed more often, with some punishing people who skip tests, as authorities try to stop the virus from spreading while the case numbers are still small...

British power generator Drax Group Plc said on Thursday it will expand its operations into Japan to ramp up its supply of sustainable biomass pellets in Asia....

Wall Street's top investment banks that stand to lose lucrative fees from Elon Musk abandoning his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter Inc hope the start-ups backed by the world's richest person will make up for the lost business....

Utah's Great Salt Lake dropped to its lowest recorded level this month amid a two-decade drought, a grim milestone as researchers and politicians point to grave threats to wildlife and people along its receding shores....

U.S. Republicans in Congress are lining up behind legislation that critics say would roll back protections for transgender people, setting a playbook for action on a divisive social issue should they take control of Congress this fall....

General Motors Co's electric Chevy Blazer SUV will be vital to the automaker's effort to catch Tesla Inc in the U.S. EV market, but by the time it hits showrooms next year it will be fighting a crowd of vehicles to run second in a segment dominate...

Pacific island leaders have agreed to take a united approach as the United States and China vie for influence in the region, and to push developed nations for bolder action on climate change, which they say is the biggest threat they face....

Greece on Thursday scored a win in its fight to protect their right to the term 'Feta' as Europe's top court reprimanded Denmark for not blocking local companies from using the name for sales outside the European Union....

Amazon has offered to refrain from using sellers' data for its own retail business and made other concessions to end an antitrust investigation, EU regulators said on Thursday....

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that attempts by the Group of Seven leading western nations to cap oil prices may in fact cause them to rise....

The Bank of England may oblige all banks to tap their capital buffer and stop paying dividends in a crisis to avoid a vacuum in lending to households and businesses, one of its senior officials said on Thursday....

Croatian authorities deployed firefighting aircraft and dozens of firefighters and soldiers on Thursday in an effort to contain three major wildfires along the country's Adriatic coast....

The European Union's ombudswoman criticised the European Commission for failing to find and publish text messages between the executive's president, Ursula von der Leyen, and the head of Pfizer negotiating a massive COVID-19 vaccine deal....

The Netherlands expects to be able to sustain its supply of natural gas to Germany in the coming winter even if Russia cuts off all its supply to Europe, gas transport company GTS said on Thursday....

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss pledged to get the British economy on an "upward trajectory" by the time of the next national election in 2024 as she set out her pitch on Thursday to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister....

Batsman Virat Kohli and seamer Jasprit Bumrah have been left out of India's Twenty20 squad for the team's five-match tour of West Indies beginning later this month, the country's cricket board said on Thursday....

Three Russian missiles slammed into the heart of the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia on Thursday, killing 12 people including a small child and wounding 25, the State Emergency Service said....

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) pledged a $2 billion investment to develop food parks in India in order to tackle food insecurity in South Asia and the Middle East, a joint statement from the UAE, India, the United States and Israel said on Thursday....

Ukraine's top war crimes prosecutor and European judicial authorities met on Thursday to coordinate investigations into atrocities during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, warning that a failure to do so would embolden autocrats....

The Sydney Cricket Ground has witnessed dozens of contests between Australia and England over the years but few with the level of brutality anticipated in Saturday's rugby test between the Wallabies and Eddie Jones's tourists....

Eight people were killed by a Russian missile strike on the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia on Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's office said....

An adviser to Europe's top court said the court should back an EU antitrust decision which found French drugmaker Servier's pay-for-delay deals with generics rivals were anti-competitive....

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Thursday he had asked the industry minister to have up to nine nuclear power plants operational this winter....

Surging inflation, ruptures in global energy and food markets, and stagnating growth....

China hopes Australia can take pragmatic actions to create favourable conditions for the healthy and stable development of bilateral trade relations, China's commerce ministry said on Thursday....