SYDNEY/GENEVA (Reuters) - Several member states of the World Trade Organisation voiced frustration after India's demands for concessions on agricultural stockpiling led to the collapse of the first major global trade reform pact in two decades.

At least 24 people were killed and 271 others injured when several underground gas explosions ripped through Taiwan's second-largest city overnight, hurling concrete through the air and blasting long trenches in the streets, authorities said on Friday.

The S&P/ASX 200 lost 1.2% in Sydney after stocks on Wall Street experienced their biggest one-day decline since February. Elsewhere in Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 lost 0.5% and South Korea's Kospi was 0.2% lower. The earnings season rolled on in Japan, ...

When rebel crosshairs fixed on Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 30,000 feet above the sunflowers of Eastern Ukraine, they had no idea what they were about to blow up. No clue they were about to incinerate hundreds of Dutch holidaymakers. None whatsoever ...