Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed to defend German jobs as the European Union's executive launched an investigation Wednesday into whether German companies that use large amounts of electricity get...

The European car market is slowly mounting a rebound, with new car registrations up for the third month in a row.   The European carmakers' association reported Tuesday that EU passenger...

Fears that the recovery in the 17-country eurozone has stalled were eased somewhat Monday after a survey showed business sentiment across the region rising for the first time in three months despite...

The mountain of refrigerators, cellphones, TV sets and other electrical waste disposed of annually worldwide is forecast to grow by a third by 2017, according to a U.N. study released...

Neither impassioned pleas from UN secretary-general Ban Ki Moon nor dire warnings from scientists, nor even Typhoon Haiyan devastating the Philippines sufficed to inspire much progress at the recent...

By the time of going to print yesterday, only HSBC Bank Malta and Bank of Valletta, of the many that had been sent questions by this newspaper, had replied to Central Bank Governor Josef...

The publication of government figures in the Government Gazette normally does not raise any ripples. And the latest numbers were for October, whereas it will only be at year’s end that the final...

European Union finance officials spent all day Tuesday roughing out key aspects of a new agency that would clean up broken banks and keep the costs of doing that from hitting taxpayers — but...

The number of city dwellers is at an all-time high of about 3.5 billion and will nearly double in the next 30 to 40 years, with almost all the growth in developing countries, the head of the U.N....

The vast majority of business economists believe the Federal Reserve will begin to pull back on its massive economic stimulus program in the first three months of 2014, according to a November survey...