Greece: Injured fruit pickers get state protection
A Supreme Court prosecutor in Greece has ordered that 35 immigrant strawberry pickers, most of whom were injured in a shooting last week, will be ...

European austerity yields meager results in 2012
The austerity pain pursued by a number of European countries led to very little gain in 2012. Figures Monday from Eurostat, the European Union's ...

Tax case of Uli Hoeness stuns Germany
Uli Hoeness has been a figure larger than life in German football, building Bayern Munich into a bastion of financial health and one of the top clubs ...
Ireland's Elan rejects Royalty Pharma takeover bid
The board of Irish drugmaker Elan has unanimously rejected a takeover bid from Royalty Pharma, saying the U.S. investment company's offer of $11.

Spain's population drops as crisis deepens
Spain's National Statistics Institute says the recession-wracked country's population fell in 2012 for the first time in years as foreigners left the ...
US high court to look at Daimler appeal
The Supreme Court says it will hear an appeal from automaker Daimler AG that seeks to shut down a U.S. lawsuit over allegations that its unit in ...
Google fined by German data protection agency
A German data protection agency fined Google Inc. 145,000 euros ($189,000) for illegally recording information from unsecured wireless networks — an ...
Oil stays above $88 per barrel
The price of oil rose modestly above $88 a barrel Monday as traders returned to commodities after big sell-offs last week. By early afternoon in ...

A week after Boston bombings, suspect hospitalized
Boston Marathon bombings supect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remained hospitalized and unable to speak Monday with a gunshot wound to the throat, and the ...

Lufthansa cancels about 1,700 flights amid strike
Ground staff at Lufthansa, Germany's biggest airline, walked off the job Monday on a one-day strike that prompted the company to cancel most of the ...
Philips first quarter profits fall as sales slip
Royal Philips NV, the maker of lights, consumer appliances and health-care equipment, on Monday reported a fall in first quarter profit due to weak ...
Germany's tax take continues to swell in Q1
The German government's tax income has continued to swell this year, thanks in part to a solid labor market in Europe's biggest economy. The Finance ...

Sea disputes, NKorea in spotlight at ASEAN summit
Worried that long-seething rifts could escalate over the South China Sea, Southeast Asian leaders are expected this week to press China to agree to ...

Paraguayans elect tobacco magnate as president
Paraguayans elected a tobacco magnate as their new leader Sunday, returning the conservative Colorado Party to the presidency that it held for 61 ...

Cyprus says insurance firm deposits to take losses
Cyprus' central bank says all insurance firm deposits in the bailed-out country's second largest bank will now take a loss of 27.5 percent. The bank ...
Greek poll compares dictatorship to fiscal crisis
On the 46th anniversary of a military coup that installed a dictatorship for seven years, 30 percent of Greeks think that things were better during ...
German opposition seizes on prominent tax case
Germany's opposition seized Sunday on a case of suspected tax evasion involving a prominent football figure to attack the government before this ...

Israel approves 'Open Skies' deal with EU
Israel's Cabinet on Sunday approved a deal to allow more EU flights, hours after the country's airlines went on strike out of concerns that the ...
Russian Alisher Usmanov tops British rich list
Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov is Britain's richest person, displacing steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, who held the distinction for the past eight ...

World finance leaders say growth still weak
While world finance leaders say the global economy has improved slightly this year, they said the outlook for the future was uneven with growth and ...
Report: Ex-HSBC man says US advised he go to Spain
A man wanted by Switzerland on suspicion of stealing confidential banking information now being used by international financial investigators says U.S

Blackstone founder creates $300M China scholarship
A U.S. private equity tycoon announced Sunday the establishment of a $300 million endowed scholarship program in China for students from around the ...

Slovenia insists it's not the next Cyprus
Slovenian officials have a message for the world: Don't panic — we won't be the next to fall. The tiny European Union member is trying to convince its ...

China rushes relief after Sichuan quake kills 180
Rescuers and relief teams struggled to rush supplies into the rural hills of China's Sichuan province Sunday after an earthquake left at least 180 ...