Nestlé posted a jump in profits and a rise in a key sales-growth metric, suggesting the company’s shift toward coffee and healthier food is starting to bear fruit.

Airbus delivered bumper second-quarter earnings growth, boosting its stock, even as it trimmed its full-year outlook after taking control of a smaller jetliner program to expand its product lineup to battle Boeing.

Eisai and Biogen revealed new data showing their closely watched experimental drug slowed the worsening of Alzheimer’s disease, but some experts said more testing is needed.

The top U.S. envoy for South Asia met with Taliban officials this week to discuss ways to lay the groundwork for peace talks, in a fresh bid to end the 17-year war in Afghanistan, people familiar with the matter said.

Japan executed the remaining six death-row inmates involved in a doomsday cult that spread nerve gas on the Tokyo subway in 1995.

Iranian leaders are pushing to contain a deepening economic crisis that is slashing the buying power of Iranians and pressuring Tehran’s ruling elite even before the bite of looming U.S. sanctions.