Japan's vital signs remained weak in July as wages fell further and household spending dropped, signaling continued weakness in the world's third-largest economy.   Data released...

The National Statistics Office yesterday announced that provisional estimates indicate that the Gross Domestic Product for the second quarter amounted to €1,897.8 million, an increase of 4.2 per...

The death of an Arizona firearms instructor by a 9-year-old girl who was firing a fully automatic Uzi displayed a tragic side of what has become a hot industry in the U.S.: gun...

Economists appear to be of two minds about the Federal Reserve.   They agree with the Fed that the job market still isn't healthy. Yet the latest Associated Press survey of economists...

Families of passengers who were on the Malaysia Airlines plane shot down over Ukraine are starting to sort through the long process of gaining compensation for their loss.   Officials in the...

Businesses in California's wine capital on Monday mopped up thousands of dollars in high-end vintages, swept glass from ghostly downtown streets ordinarily bustling with tourists and rushed...

Forget bad weather, traffic jams and kids asking, "Are we there yet?" The real headache for many travelers is a quickly-growing list of hotel surcharges, even for items they never...

Ongoing turmoil and violence in Libya and Ukraine have taken a toll on the profit levels of the Malta Stock Exchange-listed International Hotels Investments (IHI), with interim profits having dropped...

European Central Bank head Mario Draghi said Friday the bank is ready to do more to boost the shaky recovery in the 18 countries that use the euro — but warns governments must join in efforts to...

A report from the Census Bureau is the latest evidence that the rich are getting richer while the poor get poorer.   The study released Thursday divided the U.S. into five groups, from...