Новости за 03.01.2016

Christian families are increasingly turning to health sharing ministries as an alternative to traditional health insurance after the Affordable Care Act passed. But the programs can bring risks.

Investors have high expectations for China's tech companies in 2016 after a big year of deal-making. WSJ's Rick Carew discusses whether investors will get what they expect.

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is set to surpass “Avatar” this week as the highest-grossing movie of all time in U.S. and Canadian theaters.

Indian security forces were hunting for militants at an air force base near the border with Pakistan after two days of running gun battles that left at least seven Indian security personnel dead.

Stock-purchase apps are opening a path to U.S. financial markets for the Chinese middle class, which is seeking profitable places to put money.

The presidential candidates dominated the Sunday morning news airwaves, discussing a range of topics from college football to guns. Here are highlights.

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said Sunday that he had no control over his words and image being used in terrorist recruiting videos.

Aaron David Miller: Unless Saudi-Iranian tensions abate, Washington has no chance of winning the war against ISIS or ameliorating sectarian tensions in Iraq or Syria.

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina said Sunday that a tweet in support of the University of Iowa football team over her own alma mater, Stanford, was "tongue-in-cheek."

The small CUP party has denied Catalonia’s leader Artur Mas the margin of support he needs to be re-elected, throwing a wrench in the Catalan independence movement and raising the prospect of fresh elections in the wealthy Spanish region.

After a gross of $88.3 million in its third weekend, the domestic total for Walt Disney Co.'s "The Force Awakens" stands at $740.3 million -- about $20 million shy of "Avatar's" lifetime gross in the U.S. and Canada.

GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson said failures by his top campaign staff to execute an effective strategy forced him to undertake a major personnel shake-up last week.

The death of Shiite cleric Nemer al-Nemer as part of Saudi Arabia's largest mass execution in decades set off a wave of condemnation across the Middle East and beyond. It sparked protests in the restive east of Saudi Arabia, as well as in countries including Bahrain and Lebanon, and prompted demonstrators to storm the Saudi Embassy in Tehran. Here's how he built up such a broad influence and how his execution has resonated through the region.

Robert Benmosche and James B. Lee Jr. were among figures in finance who passed away in 2015.

China said it had landed a test flight on a newly completed airfield in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, a sign of its growing military capabilities in the region.

An agreement between Japan and South Korea to settle a dispute over wartime sexual slavery could lead to better ties on regional security, but a backlash in Korea threatens to complicate progress.

A crowd upset about the execution of Shiite Muslim cleric and activist Nemer al-Nemer in Saudi Arabia hurled stones and Molotov cocktails at the Saudi Embassy in Tehran, as others entered the building, causing some damage.

From AB InBev’s Brito to Hewlett Packard’s Whitman, to VW’s Müller, these chiefs must contend with impatient investors, slumping sales, megamergers and more.

The mayor of a city south of Mexico’s capital was shot to death less than a day after taking office.

George R.R. Martin said that he missed a deadline to deliver the sixth book in his “A Song of Ice and Fire” novel series, which is the basis of HBO’s hit fantasy series “Game of Thrones.”