Asia’s emerging economies are piling on debt to fuel growth, in stark contrast to the scaling back of private debt in the U.S. and Europe.

In today’s pictures, a woman walks in the rain in Nepal, lighting strikes a tornado-ravaged Oklahoma city, disabled women compete in a Moscow beauty pageant, and more.

Nine months after anti-Japanese riots in China over an island dispute, trade is rebounding—with Chinese consumers particularly warming again to Japanese cars.

A plan to ban refillable containers on restaurant tables died amid ridicule from Europe’s chilly North, over the protestations from the sunny South.

The leaders of the Pacific Alliance, a regional trade bloc, moved Thursday to lower import tariffs between the member countries, a decision that could boost economic integration efforts in Latin America.

Iceland’s new prime minister, Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, said he aims to remove capital controls, in place since the nation’s economic collapse several years ago, and to reintroduce a free-floating currency.

Eight House lawmakers were forced to backtrack from an “agreement in principle” on overhauling immigration after Democratic leaders objected to a provision dealing with health-care coverage for illegal immigrants.

Curator Emily Braun advised Leonard Lauder on the cubist collection he just donated to the Met.

Iranian-backed hackers have escalated a campaign of cyberassaults against U.S. corporations by launching infiltration and surveillance missions, according to current and former U.S. officials.

The Boy Scouts of America have decided to allow gay youth to openly join its ranks, reversing a longtime ban.