Top-deck cabins poked out of the water from a capsized river cruise ship on the Yangtze on Friday after disaster teams righted the vessel to quicken the search for the more than 330 people who are...

Desperate for time, Greece is taking an unusual step in negotiations over its bailout program: It will bundle four payments that are due this month to the International Monetary Fund into one payment...

HSBC will pay 40 million Swiss francs ($43 million) to settle an investigation by Geneva prosecutors over allegations the bank helped rich clients avoid taxes. The bank and prosecutors said...

British authorities have released more private letters from Prince Charles to government ministers on topics ranging from historic buildings to hospital food. The letters were the subject of a...

Egypt's highest appeals court on Thursday ordered the retrial of ousted President Hosni Mubarak on charges that he failed to stop the killing of hundreds of protesters during the 2011 uprising that...

The U.N. refugee agency is urging the European Union to take in far greater numbers of refugees than planned as the number of desperate Syrians fleeing conflict continues to grow. The EU's 28...

High-ranking members of Greece's governing radical left Syriza party say they cannot accept a deal proposed by the country's creditors during a meeting between Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and the...

 Rescuers cut three holes into the overturned hull of a river cruise ship in unsuccessful attempts to find more survivors Thursday as the death toll in the Yangtze River disaster reached 65. More...

These are tough times for political pollsters. In recent elections in Israel, Britain and Poland pre-election polls failed spectacularly to predict election results, sending shock waves through...

GLOBAL ECONOMY PARIS — The world economy risks being bogged down in a low growth spiral unless measures are taken to spur demand and incite businesses to boost their stubbornly sluggish...