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It's been a year full of worries for investors, from geopolitical conflict to inflation to the pandemic, and it doesn't look like the concerns will ease anytime soon.

Ken Griffin, the billionaire owner and founder of hedge fund Citadel and high-speed trading firm Citadel Securities, will join the Ricketts family, the owners of Major League Baseball's Chicago Cubs, in a formal bid for Chelsea Football Club, Griffin's spokesperson, Zia Ahmed, confirmed to CNN on Wednesday.

Walmart is planning to hire more than 50,000 workers in the United States this spring.

The U.S. Coast Guard is working on a plan to safely refloat a 1,095-foot container ship operated by Evergreen Marine Corp. that grounded in the Chesapeake Bay Sunday night.

Supermodel Bella Hadid has confessed that she regrets having a nose job as a teenager.

EU Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson lays out the steps Europe has taken to find alternative gas sources and reduce reliance on Russia.

It has been two years since the Covid-19 pandemic became a reality for millions of people in Europe and many of the region's leaders now believe it is time to move on. But as countries shed restrictions, cases and hospitalizations are slowly inching up and public health experts are worried about the consequences.

Chinese stocks had their best day in years Wednesday as Beijing promised measures to "substantially" boost economic growth and keep financial markets stable.

In a year when all Xi Jinping craved was for things to be stable, 2022 is shaping up to be anything but.

For decades, being a student in Tokyo meant you had to look a certain way. Under the public school system's dress code, all students had to dye their hair black, certain hairstyles were prohibited and even their underwear had to be a designated color.

Li-Ning goods will be detained by US authorities after US Customs and Border Protection said an investigation indicated that the Chinese sportswear giant uses North Korean labor in its supply chain.

After more than two years, New Zealand will reopen its borders to Australians starting April 12, and to international tourists from visa-waiver countries from May 1, the government announced on Wednesday, March 16.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has done more to unify Western Europe than almost any event since the end of World War II.

An attempt by North Korea to fire an unidentified projectile Wednesday morning failed on launch, according to the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Serdar Berdymukhamedov, the son of outgoing Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, won a snap election with 73% of the vote and will succeed his father, the Central Asian nation's Central Election Commission said on Tuesday.

When ice cream maker Adrienne Borlongan first experimented with a White Rabbit flavor, she thought it tasted like "cheap vanilla."

After Russia invaded Ukraine, global oil prices experienced a dramatic spike. Just over a week ago, Brent crude leaped above $139 per barrel. Analysts warned prices could touch $185, then $200 as traders shunned Russian oil, pushing inflation even higher and adding huge strain to the global economy.

It's a request that was described as "ironic in the extreme."

Intel plans to invest up to €80 billion ($89 billion) over the next decade to build up Europe's supply chain for semiconductor chips.

When costume designer Glyn Dillon got a call asking if he'd be interested in working on Matt Reeves' newly-released movie "The Batman," the first thing he sketched was a pair of ears. "How big are the ears?" he remembered worrying about. "For some reason, it's a big deal with all the fans," he said over Zoom.