As 2013 closed, efforts to revive growth in the world’s most influential economies – with the exception of the eurozone – have had a beneficial effect worldwide. All the looming...

Financial markets are quiet and Europe’s politicians are relieved, but the fundamental problems that have driven the euro crisis for the last four years remain, and now is the time to address...

Ariel Sharon, the hard-charging Israeli general and prime minister who was admired and hated for his battlefield exploits and ambitions to reshape the Middle East, died Saturday, eight years after a...

Haiti's prime minister said Friday that his government has made headway in rebuilding the country following a devastating earthquake four years ago, citing a drop in the number of people living in...

     French President Francois Hollande threatened legal action Friday over a magazine report saying he is having a secret affair with an actress, the latest breach in the French...

The Costa Concordia cruise ship wreck will be removed in June from its watery graveyard off Tuscany and taken to a port to be dismantled, the final phase of an unprecedented 600 million-euro ($817...

Fifteen candidates want to run for the ceremonial post of Slovakia's president.   Parliament spokesman Pavol Chovanec said Friday the 15 delivered their candidacy by Thursday's...

When her mind is clear, Gong Qifeng can recall how she begged for mercy. Several people pinned her head, arms, knees and ankles to a hospital bed before driving a syringe of labor-inducing drugs into...

Six men are dead in a series of unexplained killings involving booby-trapped bombs in southern Russia, further heightening security fears ahead of next month's Winter Olympics in...

The French drug safety agency has approved commercial sales of a medicine derived from cannabis for the first time in France.   France's Health Ministry said in a statement Wednesday...