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Business World Columnist Holman Jenkins Jr. on the online retail giant’s purchase of Whole Foods. Photo credit: Getty Images.

The U.S. will eliminate the post of special envoy on Afghanistan and Pakistan, leaving the Trump administration without a policy point person, current and former U.S. officials said.

Outbrain, best known for placing sponsored links on publishers’ websites, has laid off 4% of its roughly 600-person global workforce.

New-home sales rose in May and prices hit a record, more evidence of a housing market characterized by strong demand and tight inventories.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, whose defense ministers gather in Brussels this week, is expected to publish the alliance’s estimates of 2017 defense budgets. Those figures will reveal to what extent alliance members have moved to meet U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand that Europe increase defense spending. Later in the week, top EU officials head […]

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To identify people more easily, scientists are enlisting computers to automate the creation of facial images that age in sync with the people they portray.

The European Central Bank requested greater powers to supervise euro-denominated clearing, stepping up a tug of war between European Union authorities and Britain over the future of the lucrative business line after Brexit.

The outcome of the latest stress test on banks gives ammunition to the Trump administration and lawmakers who see some of the rules put in place after the financial crisis as excessive.

On the Upper East Side, the unit originally sought $35 million in February.

Saudi Arabia and other Arab states have called on Qatar to shut down state broadcaster Al Jazeera and close a Turkish military base in the Persian Gulf state, according to a draft list of demands offered up to end a diplomatic spat.

Apple’s iPhone, and the smartphone boom that followed, gave rise to whole new industries, laid waste to others and forced new business models. As the device turns 10, we take stock of its impact.

U.K. police said they had charged a man with terrorism-related murder and attempted murder in connection with the attack on Muslim worshipers in north London this week.

Samples of cladding taken from the London high-rise that burnt down last week, killing at least 79 people, failed fire-safety tests, police said Friday, adding they were considering a range of potential charges in the case, including manslaughter.

The Brexit vote sank the pound but buoyed the FTSE 100. That relationship might be changing.

Australia is sending two patrol planes to the Philippines—where it has long deferred to the U.S. on security issues—to back Philippine troops fighting a Muslim-extremist group on the southern island of Mindanao.

The dating app will let users compose video narratives. But will it be enough to lure in millennials?

As a group, U.S. households’ debt-to-income and debt-to-asset ratios in the first quarter fell to their lowest levels since the early 2000s. But financial obligations beyond debt payments, such as rents and auto leases, are taking a bigger bite out of pay.

North Korea lashed out at the U.S. over criticisms of the treatment of Otto Warmbier, who died after his return home in a coma, in a sharply worded statement that is likely to further inflame tensions between Washington and Pyongyang.

As the country’s economy crumbles, desperate residents are undertaking risky sea passages to barter for goods in Trinidad, and the outcomes are sometimes tragic.

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India is going up against China in a new Asian space race, trying to tighten its control of regional skies and alliances by leveraging its ability to send satellites into orbit inexpensively.

Investors need to consider the political risk faced by China’s version of Twitter.

IBM and games developer Ubisoft are experimenting with speech recognition to enhance one of the first social virtual reality video games: “Star Trek: Bridge Crew”. The game makes use of IBM's supercomputer Watson. Image:Ubisoft Composite:Mark Kelly

Senior lawmakers in both parties are resisting the Trump administration’s moves toward imposing steel tariffs on national security grounds, worried that other countries could use the same argument to block exports from their states.