Deutsche Bank: co-CEO, CFO part of tax probe
Deutsche Bank says its co-chief executive Juergen Fitschen and chief finance officer Stefan Krause are under investigation as part of a tax evasion ...
Scarponi banned 3 months for seeing Dr. Ferrari
Former Giro d'Italia winner Michele Scarponi has been banned for three months by the Italian Olympic Committee for seeing banned physician Michele ...

Barclays appoints ex-regulator as compliance head
Barclays has appointed the former chief of Britain's financial regulator to the new role of head of compliance at the scandal-hit U.K. bank. The move, ...

US defends $1.9B deal with British banking giant
American authorities on Tuesday cited "astonishing" dysfunction at the British bank HSBC and said that it had helped Mexican drug traffickers, Iran, ...

Heavy snow keeps Balkans in deep freeze
Blizzards blocked roads, stranded villages, disrupted power supplies and temporarily shut down an airport in the Balkans on Tuesday, the fourth ...

HSBC to pay $1.9B to settle money-laundering case
British bank HSBC has agreed to pay $1.9 billion to settle a New York based-probe in connection with the laundering of money from narcotics ...
UK authorities arrest 3 in LIBOR rate probe
British police arrested three people Tuesday as part of their investigation into the manipulation of a key benchmark interest rate — the first British ...
US, EU considering world's biggest free trade pact
After years of battling each other on trade issues, U.S. and European officials are contemplating a dramatic change in direction: joining together in ...

Solid evidence elusive in right-to-work debate
Gov. Rick Snyder says one reason he supports right-to-work legislation in Michigan is the economic boost a similar law has given Indiana, although ...

Spaniards hope for eviction reprieve amid crisis
Irene Gonzalez is desperately waiting to hear if she'll benefit from an emergency government decree that protects Spaniards such as her from being ...
US settles suit alleging UK bank money laundering
Standard Chartered Bank has agreed to pay $327 million to settle federal and New York charges it laundered money on behalf of four countries that were ...

Anger at Australian radio station over royal hoax
It started out as a joke, but ended in tragedy. The sudden death of a nurse who unwittingly accepted a prank call to a London hospital about Prince ...

Russia fumes at US bill as "reset" plan takes hit
What happened to the "reset"? U.S.-Russian ties have again plunged into acrimony amid disputes ranging from disagreement on Syria to Russian President ...
Iran commander claims sanctions are helpful
A senior commander of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard claimed Friday that Western sanctions are helpful because they promote Iranian ...

UN's Ban urges Syria against chemical weapons
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has renewed a call on Syria not to use chemical weapons, saying their use would amount to an "outrageous crime in ...
Russian trade, human rights bill heads to Obama
A Russian trade and human rights bill cleared Congress and headed for President Barack Obama's signature, opening new export opportunities for ...

EU imposes massive fine on TV, monitor producers
For years, some top managers at electronics multinationals would hold secretive meetings in Europe and Asia to fix the global market on the most ...

Senate takes up bill normalizing Russia trade
The Senate on Wednesday took up trade legislation that includes a measure that imposes sanctions on Russian human rights violators, drawing sharp ...

Cameron urges quick creation of press regulator
Britain's prime minister has warned newspaper editors they must act quickly to set up an independent press regulator in the wake of a media ethics ...
Chinese co. to pay $2M for nuke export violations
A company owned by the Chinese government has pleaded guilty for conspiring to violate nuclear export restrictions on Pakistan and agreed to pay $2 ...
Romanian ad agencies call on gov't to scrap TV law
Romanian advertisers are urging the government to scrap a law regulating television advertising they claim will benefit pro-government broadcasters.