New technologies of various kinds, together with globalization, are powerfully affecting the range of employment options for individuals in advanced and developing countries alike – and at...

    Pilots and cabin crew on Tuesday staged demonstrations in several European airports against planned EU legislation they say could force them to fly excessive hours and threaten the...

Several hundred schools in England are closed because of heavy snow, prompting some harrumphing that the nation surrenders too easily to foul weather.   About 5,000 of the 23,500 primary and...

A gas leak at a chemicals factory cast a strong odour across northwestern France that wafted all the way down to Paris in the early hours of Tuesday, but officials said there was no danger to the...

The Islamists are back as a force in Algeria.   The terrorist attack on an Algerian natural gas plant that left dozens of hostages and militants dead has demonstrated how a failing Algerian...

Capt. Wales is coming home to be Prince Harry once again.   The Ministry of Defense revealed Monday that the 28-year-old prince is returning from a five-month deployment in Afghanistan,...

    President Barack Obama issued a powerful defense of government on Monday, declaring that a decade of war was ending, the nation's economy was recovering and...

Kissing his boyfriend during a protest in front of Russia's parliament earned Pavel Samburov 30 hours of detention and the equivalent of a $16 fine on a charge of "hooliganism." But if a...

Judges hearing ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi's sex-for-hire trial are indicating that the verdict could come down after national elections   The court's decision last week not to...

The death toll from the terrorist siege at a natural gas plant in the Sahara climbed past 80 on Sunday as Algerian forces searching the refinery for explosives found dozens more bodies, many so badly...