The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday launched a program to ensure brokerages and advisers are offering reasonable investment advice and disclosing conflicts to retirement-age investors.
German airline Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) faces a June 30 deadline to make concessions to cabin crew over pay and pensions or suffer further strikes that would compound the effects of a costly dispute with its pilots.
Google Inc will have to defend claims that its Street View mapping software violates patents held by Vederi LLC after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up the company's appeal.
A Taliban suicide bomber and six gunmen attacked the Afghan parliament on Monday as lawmakers met to consider a new defense minister, and another district in the volatile north fell to the militants as they intensified a summer offensive.
