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Beekeepers create buzz with UK Parliament protest
Scores of worried beekeepers — and a brace of fashionistas — have gathered outside Britain's Parliament in a bid to convince the government to back ...
UK newspapers reject press regulation plans
British newspaper publishers including major players like Rupert Murdoch's News International on Thursday rejected the government's proposals for ...
Deschamps faces senate questions at doping hearing
France coach Didier Deschamps spoke to a senate-led inquiry into the fight against doping on Wednesday and afterwards said it is vital for leading ...
Donald Trump's anti-wind farm ad banned
Britain's Advertising Standards Agency has ruled that Donald Trump's anti-wind farm advert should be withdrawn in its current form. The independent ...
Egypt's Morsi to reshuffle Cabinet amid turmoil
Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi defended his handling of some of the nation's most pressing problems in a nearly two-hour television interview on ...
Jude Law writes to WTO against seal trade
Actor Jude Law has written to the World Trade Organization to urge it to uphold a European Union ban on seal fur. The British actor was writing on ...
Penguin seeks to settle EU e-book antitrust probe
The European Union's antitrust watchdog says publisher Penguin has offered to forgo a deal with Apple on the sale of e-books in a bid to end an ...
Kerry disappointed by recent talks with Iran
Secretary of State John Kerry called for patience despite widespread frustration with the recent failure of negotiations between six world powers and ...
German Parliament approves Cyprus aid package
The German Parliament on Thursday approved a 10 billion euros ($13 billion) rescue package for Cyprus by a wide margin. Lawmakers voted 487-102 in ...
Russia cracks down on illegal building in Sochi
Russia imposed a ban on all new building in Sochi on Wednesday to fight the illegal construction of apartments and hotels in the city preparing to ...
Greenland leader worries about life after mining
Greenland's government wants to make sure the sparsely populated Arctic island doesn't get "ripped off" by foreign companies seeking to exploit its ...
Official: Cyprus lawmakers to vote on bailout deal
Cyprus' parliament must vote on the 23 billion euro ($30 billion) bailout deal the country has agreed upon with international creditors, the Cypriot ...
EU cap-and-trade system suffers blow
Europe's fight against climate change was dealt a setback on Tuesday, when EU lawmakers voted against a proposal that would have made it more ...
ECB's Draghi urges speedy banking union
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi urged the 17 countries that use the euro to move swiftly toward completing a full banking union to ...
EU lawmakers vote for banker bonus cap
The European Parliament on Tuesday voted in favor of reforms to strengthen the bloc's financial sector, including a new law to cap bankers' bonuses.
Barrick suffering big setbacks in Latin America
A Chilean court's halt to construction of Barrick Gold Corp.'s $8 billion, border-straddling mine on the high spine of the Andes is only the latest ...
Luxembourg agrees to help fight tax cheats
Luxembourg is to start exchanging information with the rest of Europe to help fight tax evasion, the government said Wednesday in a move it hopes will ...
Czech power company settles dispute with EU
European regulators say they have accepted measures put forward by the major Czech state-run power company CEZ to settle a dispute over its dominant ...
French parliament approves looser labor rules
Legislation aiming to loosen up France's rigid labor rules has won approval by the lower house of parliament, amid protests by hard-line unions.
UK bank ex-CEO asks to be stripped of knighthood
The ex-chief executive of failed British bank HBOS wants to be stripped of his knighthood following a scathing report from the parliamentary banking ...
EU antitrust body probes MasterCard fees
The European Union has launched an antitrust investigation into some of MasterCard's payment fees. The European Commission, the EU's executive arm ...
UN: Chemical investigators ready to go to Syria
U.N. experts are ready to move into Syria immediately to investigate reported chemical weapons attacks but President Bashar Assad's government still ...
Financial hub Luxembourg under increased scrutiny
As the European Union's wealthiest country, Luxembourg could have been forgiven for thinking that it would never find itself on the bloc's financial ...