The Chinese government said on Tuesday it will push for improved public disclosure by state firms of financial and performance information, the latest measure in a nationwide campaign for greater transparency to fight corruption.
Germany's public sector banks are close to reaching a deal on the future of a deposit protection scheme for landesbanks and savings banks, people familiar with the matter said.
A "Saturday Night Live" skit about a male student having sex with his female high school teacher painted the relationship as every teen boy's dream, but drew a firestorm of criticism on social media.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Tuesday will begin making their cases on whether or not he should be sentenced to death for the 2013 attack and its aftermath.
