Britain's Barclays (BARC.L) has hired JPMorgan (JPM.N) banker Tim Throsby to head its Corporate and International division, ending a six-month search for the number two job under Chief Executive Jes Staley. Throsby, 50, will also run Barclays' investment banking business within that...

World shares saw their biggest jump in over a month on Monday and the dollar slipped, after weaker-than-expected U.S. jobs figures gave investors another excuse to push back Federal Reserve interest rate rise expectations. European shares touched a four-month high led by mining and oil firms...

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued an angry rebuke to "blasphemous" regional rival Saudi Arabia on Monday, calling on the Muslim world to question its management of Islam's holiest sites. "Because of Saudi rulers' oppressive behaviour towards God's guests, the world of...

JERUSALEM  Palestinians activists have called on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to release six hunger-striking prisoners, who have been held for months in Palestinian prisons without charge.  Protesters gathered in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Saturday, according to...