CNN, the pioneer of 24-hour network news, could fetch as much as $8 billion should it be sold following a tie-up of parent Time Warner Inc. (TWX:US) and 21st Century Fox Inc. (FOXA:US), according to people familiar with the matter. Fox would sell CNN to ...

If (and it's still a pretty big if, though he is nothing if not dogged) Rupert Murdoch succeeds in buying longtime rival TimeWarner for somewhere north of $75 billion, one thing is clear: he'll have to unload CNN. There's no way federal regulators will allow the ...

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said legislation requiring the central bank to enunciate a rule guiding monetary policy would undermine the Fed's independence. Answering questions from the House Financial Services Committee, Yellen said “it would be ...

People pose while standing on the wreckage of a Ukrainian AN-26 transport plane after it was shot down in the village of Davydo-Mykilske, near the Russian border. It was probably struck either by an air-to-air missile from a jet based at Russia's Millerovo ...

Pro-Russian militants sitting atop a truck wave as they drive past a checkpoint in Makiivka, 15 kilometers east of Donetsk, on July 11, 2014. Recruiting efforts for separatist fighters “are expanding inside Russia and separatists are looking for volunteers with ...

Citigroup Inc. (C:US) led financial stocks higher after better-than-expected trading revenue and lower credit costs helped second-quarter profit beat analysts' estimates and the company resolved a mortgage-related probe. Citigroup climbed 3.7 percent to ...

Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Danylo Lubkivsky said, “The turmoil in Ukraine is slowly coming to its logical conclusion.” (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images). Ukrainian rebels seized a town in the Luhansk region today after a retreat from eastern ...

Airports including London Heathrow, Europe's busiest, stepped up security checks with unspecified measures in response to the U.S. warnings. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg. Travelers bound for the U.S. face longer waits at some airport security ...

Ghana's cedi is at risk of weakening as much as another 19 percent this year as the world's second-biggest cocoa producer struggles to rein in a budget deficit, according to HFC Bank Ghana Ltd. The cedi may fall to 3.50 and 4 per dollar, Benjamin Dzoboku, ...

Ghana's cedi is at risk of weakening as much as another 19 percent this year as the world's second-biggest cocoa producer struggles to rein in a budget deficit, according to HFC Bank Ghana Ltd. The cedi may fall to 3.50 and 4 per dollar, Benjamin Dzoboku, ...

Ghana's cedi is at risk of weakening as much as another 19 percent this year as the world's second-biggest cocoa producer struggles to rein in a budget deficit, according to HFC Bank Ghana Ltd. The cedi may fall to 3.50 and 4 per dollar, Benjamin Dzoboku, ...

Ghana's cedi is at risk of weakening as much as another 19 percent this year as the world's second-biggest cocoa producer struggles to rein in a budget deficit, according to HFC Bank Ghana Ltd. The cedi may fall to 3.50 and 4 per dollar, Benjamin Dzoboku, ...

Ghana's cedi is at risk of weakening as much as another 19 percent this year as the world's second-biggest cocoa producer struggles to rein in a budget deficit, according to HFC Bank Ghana Ltd. The cedi may fall to 3.50 and 4 per dollar, Benjamin Dzoboku, ...

Ghana's cedi is at risk of weakening as much as another 19 percent this year as the world's second-biggest cocoa producer struggles to rein in a budget deficit, according to HFC Bank Ghana Ltd. The cedi may fall to 3.50 and 4 per dollar, Benjamin Dzoboku, ...

Ghana's cedi is at risk of weakening as much as another 19 percent this year as the world's second-biggest cocoa producer struggles to rein in a budget deficit, according to HFC Bank Ghana Ltd. The cedi may fall to 3.50 and 4 per dollar, Benjamin Dzoboku, ...

Ghana's cedi is at risk of weakening as much as another 19 percent this year as the world's second-biggest cocoa producer struggles to rein in a budget deficit, according to HFC Bank Ghana Ltd. The cedi may fall to 3.50 and 4 per dollar, Benjamin Dzoboku, ...

Ghana's cedi is at risk of weakening as much as another 19 percent this year as the world's second-biggest cocoa producer struggles to rein in a budget deficit, according to HFC Bank Ghana Ltd. The cedi may fall to 3.50 and 4 per dollar, Benjamin Dzoboku, ...

Ghana's cedi is at risk of weakening as much as another 19 percent this year as the world's second-biggest cocoa producer struggles to rein in a budget deficit, according to HFC Bank Ghana Ltd. The cedi may fall to 3.50 and 4 per dollar, Benjamin Dzoboku, ...

Since agreeing to comply with the European Court of Justice's decision that people have the right to be forgotten, Google (GOOG) has received about 50,000 requests for Web pages to be removed from European search results. One of the requests it has ...

Israel reinforced its troops near the Gaza Strip after the recent killings of Israeli and Palestinian teenagers fueled concerns that violence may escalate. The troop build-up, including limited numbers of reservists, was ordered after rocket fire on Israel from ...