It is a suite day for Hilton investors. Shares gained 7.5 percent to close at $21.50 Thursday after the hotelier raised $2.35 billion, the largest hotel IPO ever. Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. is ...

NEW YORK (AP)—Wall Street’s third down day in a row sent stocks to their lowest levels in a month Thursday as investors worried that the end may be nearing for the Federal Reserve Board’s suppo...

For all those assessing the meaning of Pope Francis’ rise and its implications for one of the world’s most powerful transnational institutions, the pontiff has already offered a warning. “If one...

Are the 1950s coming back? The United States and Russia appear to be vying for influence on Cuba again, one with a handshake and the other with money. The White House says Barack Obama’s handshake ...

ABU DHABI—This has been a year when America re-embraced diplomacy after a frustrating decade of war, displaying a relentlessly pragmatic approach that recalls the days of such deal-making former sec...

The Japan men’s pro golf tour plans to stage one less tournament in 2014, although the number could be increased, the Japan Golf Tour Organization announced Thursday. The JGTO, in revealing a 24-...

FUSSEN, Germany—The Japanese women continued their strong start at the Sochi Olympic curling qualifying tournament on Thursday, while the men saw their hopes of making it to Russia all but end with...

Moguls skier Miki Ito was diagnosed with a damaged right knee ligament suffered in a training fall, but remains determined to recover in time for the Sochi Olympics, the Japan Ski Association announc...