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By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Amazon’s audiobook service Audible and phone apps for reading the holy books of Islam and Christianity…

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Customers of Ecuador’s largest bank continue to experience service disruptions following a cyberattack on the institution…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts has rejected a Supreme Court stay request from the St. Louis-based natural gas company Spire Inc. to…

BEIJING (AP) — China has sent three astronauts to its space station for a record-setting six-month stay for the country. The spacecraft blasted off…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge has denied a request by dozens of scientists and others at Los…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus says it has started procedures to revoke citizenship granted to 39 foreign…

BERLIN (AP) — Pharmaceutical company Pfizer and biotechnology company BioNTech have requested to have their coronavirus vaccine licensed for…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Cabinet minister says the Dutch government is planning a multibillion euro package to help households cope with…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Goldman Sachs’ profits jumped 60% from a year earlier, as the deal-making bonanza that dominated…

By MATTHEW PERRONE and LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A panel of U.S. health advisers has endorsed booster doses of Johnson…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s caretaker prime minister says his country has set the future decarbonization of the economy as a priority in…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s central bank says financial risks from China Evergrande Group’s debt problems are “controllable” and unlikely to…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s new national airline has made its inaugural flight and unveiled its new name and logo.…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans continued to spend at a solid clip in September even while facing sticker…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British health officials say an estimated 43,000 people may have been wrongly told they don’t have…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s daily tolls of coronavirus infections and deaths have surged to another record in…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — European Union agencies are launching a year-long operation to crack down on fraud targeting the bloc’s…

VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A forthcoming flight to space by a Japanese billionaire will let the public have a closer look…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The Brexit brawl has kicked into high gear, almost a year after a deal on a free trade agreement was…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Three German parties have announced that they aim to open formal coalition talks, moving a big step…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Protests have erupted in Italy as a new anti-coronavirus regulation took effect requiring all…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is taking steps to address the economic risks from climate change. It…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong and mainland authorities have seized about $540,000 worth of smuggled Australian lobsters…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Nippon Steel Corp. is suing Toyota Motor Corp. over a patent for a technology used in electric…

NEW DELHI (AP) — India is reopening its borders to fully vaccinated foreign tourists traveling on chartered flights starting Friday. Foreign…

By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks ended higher again on Wall Street Friday, giving the S&P 500 its best week since July. The…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police have arrested four people for allegedly installing hidden cameras in the rooms of an entire motel and…

By The Associated Press Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. says it plans to build a computer chip factory in Japan. TSMC’s CEO C.C. Wei…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s most populous state New South Wales says it will end hotel quarantine for…

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill raising the nation’s debt limit until early…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term mortgage rates jumped this week, with the benchmark 30-year loan again breaching 3%. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — A former Boeing test pilot has been indicted on fraud charges related to his work in evaluating…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California insurance pool is appealing a judge’s order that it offer homeowners…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government says it will allow up to 800 more foreign butchers work in the U.K. on…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Scientists and other workers at one of the nation’s premier nuclear weapons…

The Associated Press Stocks rallied on Wall Street Thursday as the market shook off several days of wobbly trading. The S&P 500 made its biggest…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: UnitedHealth, Bank of America rise; Occidental, Boeing…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund is warning of rising threats to a global recovery posed…

By EMILIO SANABRIA and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press HERNANDARIAS, Paraguay (AP) — The gigantic Itaipu hydroelectric dam straddling the…

The Associated Press Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange…

ROME (AP) — It’s the end of business for Italy’s bankrupt national carrier Alitalia, and an end of an era for Italy. Alitalia is flying…

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators say they are cracking down on what they’re calling an explosion of…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will ask its outside experts to review Merck’s…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Domino’s Pizza says shortages of cooks, drivers and other staff are pinching sales…

By MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Industrial gas supplier Air Products has announced it will build a $4.5 billion clean…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister says airlines that fly would-be migrants to the European Union to Belarus should ask themselves whether…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Power Co. customers will likely pay another $224 million a year for the first of two nuclear…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A top U.S. trade official says the Biden administration remains committed to an easing of rules that…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Caesars Entertainment and the company that produces the show “Absinthe” in Las Vegas…

Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A Vermont family has filed a lawsuit against Disney Cruise Lines, saying their 3-year-old daughter was…