An Indonesian air liner has crashed into the sea just minutes after taking off from Jakarta with 189 people on board. Fears for passengers and crew aboard the Lion Air Boeing 737 jet were growing as search-and-rescue workers attempted to sift through wreckage in waters up to 35m deep....

Foreigners sold a net 2.34 billion riyals ($624 million) in the Saudi stock market in the week ending Oct. 25, but the bourse was supported by local institutions which bought 8.06 billion riyals worth of stocks, stock exchange data showed. The foreign selling slowed from a record 4.01...

Greece recorded the highest general government-debt-to-GDP ratio in the euro area for the second quarter, the EU’s statistics office announced Tuesday. According to Eurostat, Greek government's gross debt stock totaled €323.4 billion ($385 billion) at the end of second quarter of...

German exports to Iran have dwindled since the United States pulled out of the international nuclear deal with Tehran, data showed Friday, despite Berlin's attempts to shield companies from renewed U.S. sanctions against Tehran. Data from the Association of German Banks (BdB) showed...