Privately scoffing at the U.S., European governments move to take partial control of their banks -- in spite of the spotty record of state intervention

The West has a rescue plan for its financial system, but struggling emerging economies may have to go it alone

The first reaction is positive to ambitious rescue plans hatched over the weekend by U.S. and European governments

Former rebels receive long jail terms for the 1996 kidnapping and murder of a British mine clearance expert and his Cambodian interpreter

With Moscow suffering its own financial and budgetary problems, a $5.4 billion loan to a small, cold country seems surprising. Or is it?

A handful of soccer fans booing La Marseillaise sends the political class into a lather. That, of course, is exactly what the boo-boys hoped to do

A trial in Paris and pirates off the Horn of Africa highlight a persistent and worsening problem

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi pays court to a man he's sure history will judge to be a great President

A gun battle near a historic temple reawakens an ancient emmity