Italian lender Monte dei Paschi di Siena announced on Friday it was launching a 13.3 billion euro ($13.9 billion) takeover bid for peer Mediobanca in a surprise ...

World shares advanced Friday after U.S. stocks rose to a record and the Bank of Japan raised its key lending rate.

Poppy, a six-year-old springer spaniel with floppy brown ears and a tail that never seems to stop wagging, is by all accounts a very good dog.