The third-quarter reporting season kicks off this week with European companies on track for a second year of solid profit growth, but investors are shunning them even though valuations have not been this cheap since the euro zone crisis.

La Liga champions Barcelona have been hit by an injury crisis which left them with only two centre-backs – Gerard Pique and Clement Langlet. The Catalans will have to do without both Samuel Umtiti and Thomas Vermaelen who sustained a thigh injury during the international duty and it is being speculated that Barcelona officials will ...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump put a big and risky bet on Saudi Arabia and its 33-year-old crown prince. It's now become much riskier. From the early days of his presidency, Trump and his foreign policy team embraced the kingdom and Mohammed bin Salman as the anchors of their entire Middle East strategy. From Iran and Iraq to Syria, Yemen and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the administration gambled that Saudi Arabia, effectively run by the prince, could credibly lead, and willingly pay for, a "Pax Arabica" in a part of the world from which Trump is keen to disengage. For nearly two years, through an ongoing crisis with Qatar and international outrage over civilian casualties in...

Lobbying firms, think tanks and investors all are coming under scrutiny over their ties to the kingdom.

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The U.S. economy sits atop of the World Economic Forum's annual global competitiveness survey for the first time since the 2007-2009 financial crisis, benefiting from a new ranking methodology this year, the Swiss body said on Tuesday.

Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu said the LaLiga champions could sign a new defender in January amid their injury crisis. Experienced defender Thomas Vermaelen will miss six weeks with a hamstring injury, joining World Cup-winning centre-back Samuel Umtiti on the sidelines. Umtiti could be out of action until the new year, leaving Gerard Pique and ...]

England's injury crisis in the back row worsens, with Chris Robshaw ruled out of the autumn internationals with a knee problem.

Soldiers who were fifth graders when this war began in 2001 now direct Afghan forces in an operation to clear ISIS-held villages