Amazon overtook Microsoft to become the biggest company by market capitalization. Amazon for the first time closed out Monday's session as the world's biggest company by market capitalization, overtaking Microsoft and other fellow tech behemoths. The online sales...

French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe on Monday announced plans to ban participation in unauthorised demonstrations as the government scrambles to try to end weeks of violent “Yellow Vest” protests. Eight weeks into an anti-government rebellion marked by weekly clashes in...

 World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, who was at odds with the Trump administration's policies on climate change, will resign effective Feb. 1, more than three years ahead of his term's expiration, the multilateral lender said Monday. Kim, 59, a physician and public health...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will deliver a "dramatic announcement" set to coincide with the evening news broadcast. Netanyahu said in statement on Twitter Monday that he would broadcast a "special announcement to the press." The embattled prime minister's...