Stocks are mostly lower at midday following weak earnings from Amazon.com, Expedia and other companies and a report of slower growth in the U.S. economy than economists were expecting.

Staff at some of the world's top accountancy firms are using insider knowledge gained while working for the British Treasury to help private clients avoid tax, a committee of lawmakers said Friday.

A Latin American is set to take the helm of the World Trade Organization. Official said Friday that Mexico's former trade minister, Herminio Blanco, and Brazilian diplomat Roberto Azevedo are the finalists to become the next director-general.

The UN envoy to Iraq, Martin Kobler, calls for restraint by all sides amid a wave of violence that has left more than 150 people dead since Tuesday.

Scores of worried beekeepers - and a brace of fashionistas - have gathered outside Britain's Parliament in a bid to convince the government to back a ban on pesticides that have been blamed for a worrying drop in bee populations.

A rapper who goes by the name "Lil Danger" faces life in prison without parole after his conviction in a shooting that killed another rapper at an after-concert party at a Spokane hotel.

A rare century-old U.S. nickel that was once mistakenly declared a fake has sold at auction for more than $3.1 million.

A gun owners' rights group in Washington state says it has persuaded local governments in its home state and Virginia to repeal about 30 gun regulations that violated state laws.

The family that runs French luxury-goods conglomerate Kering won plaudits from Beijing on Friday for offering to return a pair of looted Qing dynasty bronzes at the heart of a Chinese campaign to overcome the legacy of bullying by foreign powers.

Reed Hastings, the video streaming giant’s chief executive, offered a rare public comment on his company’s 2011 Qwikster debacle, which nearly destroyed it, and its improbable rebound.    

Weyerhaeuser Co., one of the world's largest lumber companies, said Friday that its first-quarter net income soared, as the continued rebound in the housing market boosted demand for its products.

Spanish police have arrested a Dutchman alleged to have been behind one of the biggest ever web attacks.

Some 3,000 fighters from one of South Sudan's biggest rebels groups, the SSLA, hand in their weapons, officials say.

EVANS CITY, Pa. (AP) — A freight train and a rural transit bus carrying senior citizens and people with developmental disabilities crashed at an unmarked railroad crossing Friday morning, injuring at least 10 people.

Sir Winston Churchill will feature on the new design of a banknote which will enter circulation in 2016, the Bank of England announces.

Snoqualmie Pass I-90
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A woman was reportedly injured critically in a Friday morning house fire at Maple Valley.

Chinese authorities have sentenced more than 1,400 people to prison terms of at least five years for involvement in underground lending in a crackdown on a financing practice widely used by China's entrepreneurs, a police official said Friday.

Serbia's prime minister on Friday urged Parliament to support an agreement normalizing relations with breakaway Kosovo, telling lawmakers that rejection of the EU-brokered deal would turn the country into "Europe's North Korea."