Lego to expand Czech facility to meet demand
Danish toymaker Lego says it will expand a factory in the Czech Republic and create some 800 jobs to meet growing regional demand for its popular ...
Russia to close paper mill on Lake Baikal
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that authorities will shut down a paper mill on the shores of Lake Baikal, which ...

EU presents post-Fukushima nuclear safety rules
The European Commission proposed tougher nuclear safety rules Thursday, amid international debate about the future of nuclear energy and how to secure ...

Cooper CEO says buyer committed to US operations
A tire maker whose main market is in India is buying Ohio's Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. for $2.2 billion and making a commitment to maintain the ...
Fiat: supplier delays will force shutdowns
Italian carmaker Fiat says it will temporarily stop production at some European car plants in the coming days due to insufficient deliveries of ...

Iran: Bushehr nuclear plant has generator problem
Iran's Russian-built nuclear power plant has had an electric generator malfunction, an Iranian official said Monday. The flaw at the Bushehr plant ...

Copters pluck families from raging European floods
Desperate families were plucked from rooftops by helicopters, cars were swept away by raging torrents and levees failed without warning Wednesday as ...

Locked doors a sign of China work-safety failings
A fire breaks out in a Chinese factory, and panicked workers discover one exit after another is locked. That describes not only the poultry plant fire ...
J&J recalls 32M contraceptive packages outside US
Johnson & Johnson is conducting a voluntary recall of millions of oral contraceptive packages in 43 countries outside the U.S., but the health care ...

APNewsBreak: Iran's reactor said damaged by quakes
Several countries monitoring Iran's nuclear program have picked up information that the country's only power-producing nuclear reactor was damaged by ...
Italy appoints administrator for troubled plant
The Italian government on Tuesday appointed a turnaround expert as administrator to oversee Europe's largest steel mill as part of an emergency decree ...

Fire, locked doors kill 119 at China poultry plant
A swift-moving fire trapped panicked workers inside a poultry slaughterhouse in northeastern China that had only a single open exit, killing at least ...
Gunmen attack central prison in Niger's capital
Unidentified gunmen on Saturday attacked the central prison in Niger's capital, opening fire on the guards and killing at least two people, according ...

Estonia eager to teach world about oil shale
Home to the creators of Skype and the first country to use online voting, Estonia relishes its image as a technological pioneer. But the tiny East ...

Extremists claim responsibility for Niger attacks
Suicide bombers in Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of ...

Does France have right plan to revive its economy?
The man charged with reviving France's shrinking economy and attracting businesses to invest here is gaining a reputation for doing the opposite.

Residents shout 'Protest!' over refinery in China
More than 2,000 people in southern China unfurled banners and shouted "Protest! Protest!" on Thursday to oppose plans for a petroleum refinery, in a ...

Search ends in Bangladesh; death toll put at 1,127
Several of the biggest Western retailers embraced a plan that would require them to pay for factory improvements in Bangladesh as the three-week ...

Bangladesh factory collapse death toll hits 1,034
The death toll from a garment factory building that collapsed more than two weeks ago outside the Bangladeshi capital soared past 1,000 on Friday, ...

Bangladesh garment disaster death toll nears 900
The death toll from the collapse of a building housing five garment factories has climbed to nearly 900, officials said Thursday, as authorities ...

Brands risk image in varying Bangladesh responses
Global clothing brands involved in Bangladesh's troubled garment industry responded in starkly different ways to the building collapse that killed ...

Japan vows 'high safety' for Turkish reactor
Japan has learned from the Fukushima disaster and will offer technology with the highest safety standards while building Turkey's second nuclear ...