World stock indexes edged lower on Monday amid persistent investor concerns about slowing growth in China and the prospect of higher U.S. interest rates, while oil prices rallied.

• August 31, 2015

China stocks fell sharply on Monday before recovering much of their losses as regulators cracked down on speculators which Beijing blames for a 40 percent crash in the country's stock markets since June.

• August 31, 2015

Egypt will hold a long-awaited parliamentary election, starting on Oct. 18-19, the election commission said on Sunday, the final step in a process to bring back democracy that critics say has been tainted by widespread repression.

• August 31, 2015

Top ratings agencies say they see the debt restructuring deal Ukraine struck with creditors this week as tantamount to a default.

• August 30, 2015

The French Presidency says France, Germany, and Russia back plans for a complete cease-fire in eastern Ukraine from next week.

• August 30, 2015

Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansur Hadi says his forces are battling Shi'ite Huthi rebels in the country to halt "Iranian expansion."

• August 30, 2015

The head of the council of euro zone finance ministers said Greece's interim government should continue preparing to meet its creditors' conditions for a bail-out during the run-up to the country's election so its successor wastes no time.

• August 29, 2015

Legislators have approved amendments to China's 15-year-old air pollution law that grant the state new powers to punish offenders and create a legal framework to cap coal consumption, the Asian giant's biggest source of smog.

• August 29, 2015