By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks turned slightly higher on Thursday afternoon, helped by more upbeat earnings and data showing signs of improvement in the labor market. The market, which had been down slightly from the openin... [Full Article]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks extended their advance on Thursday, with the Nasdaq Composite up 1 percent, led by gains in shares of Apple and Gilead Sciences. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 113.46 points or 0.77 percent, to 14,814.41, the S... [Full Article]
BEIRUT (AP) - Activists say Syrian government troops are advancing in a push to oust rebels from the central city of Homs. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
NEW YORK (AP) - Energy companies led the stock market lower Friday as the price of oil sank 3 percent. Gold and other precious metals fell hard, sinking mining stocks. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
BEIRUT (AP) - A dual picture of Syria's rebellion is emerging: Fighters on the ground make advances, seizing territory in the south and even firing one of the heaviest mortar volleys yet into the heart of Damascus on Monday. But at the same time... [Full Article]
NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks opened lower on Wall Street after the Chinese government announced new steps to cool the booming housing market in the world's second-largest economy. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran appears to be advancing in its construction of a research reactor Western experts say could offer the Islamic state a second way of producing material for a nuclear bomb, if it decided to embark on such a course, a U.N. report... [Full Article]
BEIRUT (AP) - Rebels captured a small military base near Aleppo on Tuesday and stormed another in the same area that protects a major airport, a day after seizing Syria's largest dam. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
BEIRUT (AP) - Syrian rebels captured a strategic neighborhood near Aleppo's international airport on Saturday, putting opposition fighters in control of a key road that the regime has used to ferry supplies and reinforcements to soldiers fightin... [Full Article]