The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week was unchanged from the week before, a sign that layoffs remain at historically low levels

US applications for jobless benefits last week were unchanged from 213,000 the week before, as layoffs remain low

Aston Martin has predicted it is unlikely to finish Formula 1’s season-opening Australian Grand Prix without its drivers risking permanent nerve damage

A blackout has left millions of people without power in Havana and the rest of western Cuba in the latest outage on an island struggling with dwindling oil reserves and a crumbling electric grid

A mine collapse at Congo’s key Rubaya coltan site has killed a number of miners

An Iranian government agency says at least 1,230 people have been killed in the war

A Sri Lankan minister says another Iranian vessel is in its waters, after a US submarine sank a warship near its coast

China has set an economic growth target at the slowest since 1991 at the opening of its annual national congress, in what some economists interpreted as a reflection of pragmatism as a weak domestic economy bites

China has set an economic growth target of 4.5% to 5% for this year, a slight decrease in the face of a prolonged property slump and other headwinds and global uncertainty