The European Union's five biggest economies, including Germany and Britain, have agreed to share information on company ownership and are urging other nations to do the same to make it harder for...

Spain's ruling Popular Party says acting Industry Minister Jose Manuel Soria, whose name has been linked to offshore companies, has resigned. His resignation on Friday came days before Soria was...

These are the main news items covered by Associated Press on 14 April...

The European Union's legislature is setting up an inquiry committee to look into the use of offshore accounts by people and multinationals to stash funds and avoid paying taxes, something which costs...

A chimpanzee escaped from a zoo in northern Japan, climbed a tall electricity pole and then plunged from the wires into a blanket held by a dozen workers after being hit with a sedative...

A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 struck southern Japan on Thursday, causing some damage but there was no danger of a tsunami. Officials said they were still...

European Union lawmakers on Thursday approved a scheme to share airline passenger information that can be used to track foreign fighters heading to and from conflict areas like Syria and...

Britain's opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn, says Britain should stay in the European Union, arguing that "a vote to remain in is in the best interests of the people of this country." Corbyn comes...

CHINA-SAME-SEX MARRIAGE — Though it has been dismissed by a court, China's first legal challenge to a law limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples has galvanized many of the hundreds of young...

Argentine President Mauricio Macri has set up a blind trust to handle his financial holdings in response to criticism over his role in two offshore companies that emerged in the "Panama Papers"...