China is at a crucial point today, as it was in 1978, when the market reforms launched by Deng Xiaoping opened its economy to the world – and as it was again in the early 1990’s, when...

    France announced Tuesday that it plans to vote in favor of recognizing a Palestinian state at the U.N. General Assembly this week.   With the announcement, France becomes...

Portugal's Parliament on Tuesday approved unprecedented tax increases despite a broad public outcry and concerns that the latest austerity package will prolong the bailed-out country's...

Yasser Arafat's political heirs on Tuesday opened his grave and foreign experts took samples of the iconic Palestinian leader's remains as part of a long-shot attempt — eight years after...

The world's economic recovery will be "hesitant and uneven" next year, with Europe's debt troubles weighing on more vibrant economies such as the U.S. and in the developing world, a...

In his victory speech to a rapturous crowd in Chicago following his reelection, President Barack Obama affirmed that America’s “decade-long conflict” in Afghanistan will now end. The...

    Egypt's president told the country's top judges Monday that he did not infringe on their authority when he seized near absolute powers, setting up a prolonged showdown on...

    Thousands of dairy farmers on Monday protested low prices for their product, choking traffic into the Belgian capital with hundreds of tractors and spraying European Union...

A fire broke out Monday at a workshop for disabled people in southwestern Germany, killing 14 people and injuring at least six others, authorities said.   Markus Straub, a spokesman for...

A 91-year-old former member of the Nazis' Waffen SS has been charged with murder in the 1944 slaying of a Dutch resistance fighter, who was allegedly executed shortly after he was captured,...