JPMorgan agrees deal to settle probes into bad loans sold before the 2007 crisis, but criminal proceedings to continue. JPMorgan has agreed a provisional deal with the US government to pay $14 billion to settle investigations into bad mortgage loans the bank sold to investors...

Francois Hollande, France's president, has said a Roma schoolgirl deported after being forced off a bus full of her classmates may be allowed to come back, but without her family. Hollande's comments on Saturday came amid protests by thousands of high school students against Leonarda...

Arab nations appeal to the kingdom to reverse its decision and take up seat on the UN Security Council. Arab nations have appealed to Saudi Arabia to reverse its unprecedented decision to reject a seat on the United Nations Security Council.  Arab UN ambassadors...

Gunmen in disguise kill lieutenant of once-powerful Tijuana cartel during family children's party. The eldest brother of Mexico's once powerful Arellano Felix drug cartel family was killed by gunmen dressed as clowns at a children's party, according to a Mexican investigator....