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The initial public stock offering of the Chinese financial company Ant Group, which would have been the world's largest stock offering of all time, has been put on hold.

U.S. employers added 1.8 million jobs in July, down from 4.8 million the month before. The unemployment rate inched down to 10.2%.

Kylie Moore Gilbert, an Australian professor, was arrested in Iran in 2018 and later received a 10-year prison sentence for espionage, charges which she vehemently denies.

After winning praise for aggressively tackling COVID-19 early on in the pandemic, critics say South Korea's government is breaking its own rules, and is handling a third wave of cases timidly.

The country's natural population declined by more than 500,000 this year. A number of factors have led to Japan's plummeting birth rate and a growing demographic crisis.

In France, protests and strike actions against the government's plan to restructure the retirement system have continued, with much of the anger focused on President Emmanuel Macron.

The government is calling on a New York federal judge to dismiss lawsuits alleging the group was formed illegally. But animal rights advocates want a ruling.

A Moscow court has sentenced Sergei Smirnov to 25 days in jail for retweeting a post that poked fun at his resemblance to a Russian musician and made reference to an upcoming anti-Kremlin protest.

Gov. Gina Raimondo, the first woman to lead Rhode Island, is cutting short a second term as governor to oversee an eclectic portfolio of U.S. Commerce Department agencies, including the Census Bureau.

Journalist Priya Ramani said her former editor had sexually harassed her, which he denied. "I feel vindicated on behalf of all the women who have ever spoken out against sexual harassment," she said.