Europe's main stock markets climbed Wednesday, brushing aside falls in Asia and an overnight rout on Wall Street.

France's economy, which like those of other countries was pushed into a bruising recession by the coronavirus, will bounce back now that lockdown measures are lifted but will still contract over the year as a whole, official data showed Tuesday.

Asian markets ticked higher Tuesday as investors edged back after last week's steep drops, brushing off Donald Trump's latest anti-China salvo, while sterling struggled to bounce back after fears over Brexit trade deal talks.

Emirates, the largest airline in the Middle East, said Monday it had so far returned $1.4 billion in refunds to customers amid sharply reduced global travel due to the coronavirus pandemic. 

Britain will not become "a client state" under the terms of any post-Brexit trade deal struck with the European Union, the UK's chief negotiator David Frost insisted late on Saturday.

At the Koon Chun Sauce Factory workers are scrambling to cover hundreds of thousands of bottles with new "Made in China" labels as the popular Hong Kong brand falls victim to spiraling diplomatic tensions.

Amazon has banned sales of imported seeds in the United States after thousands of Americans said they had received packets of seeds they had not ordered, mostly from China.

Far-right leader Matteo Salvini said Sunday that Italy risked death by indecision under a government incapable of charting a course, leaving the country to become a "Chinese colony".

Two American men accused of smuggling Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn out of Japan while he was awaiting trial on financial misconduct charges can be extradited, a U.S. federal judge ruled Friday.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Donald Cabell issued a ruling approving the extradition of Michael Taylor, a U.S. Army Special Forces veteran, and his son Peter Taylor, but the final decision rests with the U.S. State Department.

The coronavirus pandemic has heaped pressure on the troubled World Trade Organization, a WTO leadership candidate said, warning the crisis could spell the end of rules-based international trade altogether.