The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):9:35 a.m.U.S. stocks are opening slightly lower as banks fell after a series of disappointing quarter reports.Investment bank Morgan S ...
Authorities in Austria tried to reach dozens of Catholic nuns whose Alpine monastery has been cut off from the world for days because of heavy snowfall.But public broadcaster ORF reported Thursday tha ...
The Latest on winter weather in Europe (all times local):2:55 p.m.Norwegian police say rescuers have recovered two more bodies after four skiers were swept away in an avalanche in northern Norway more ...
Workers around Tunisia went on strike Thursday to demand higher pay in a standoff with a government struggling to reduce unemployment, poverty and social tensions.All flights in and out of the North A ...
The leading engineer in Spain's search, now on its fourth day, for a 2-year-old boy trapped in a deep, narrow borehole says rescuers are rushing to finish in days massive digging work that usually tak ...
Gymboree has filed for bankruptcy protection for a second time in as many years, but this time the children's clothing retailer will begin winding down operations for good.The San Francisco company sa ...
The number of furloughed federal employees seeking unemployment benefits jumped in the first two weeks of the shutdown, topping 10,000 during the week of Jan. 5.The Labor Department says that is doubl ...
Defense lawyers are again appealing for the immediate release of former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo and an ex-government minister from detention at the International Criminal Court following ...
Sudanese professional and opposition groups called for protests in 12 cities including the capital Khartoum on Thursday, with hundreds marching toward the presidential palace to deliver a written requ ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Serbia in a show of support for the Balkan country's populist leader and his pro-Moscow policies.Putin landed at Belgrade airport on Thursday after his ...
Ukraine's parliament has adopted a bill spelling out procedures for transferring church property after a new unified Ukrainian church was granted independence.The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinopl ...
Facebook says it has removed hundreds of Russia-linked pages, groups and accounts that it says were part of two big disinformation operations, in its latest effort to fight fake news.The social media ...
France is spending 50 million euros ($57 million) to beef up security at airports and the Eurotunnel, hiring hundreds of extra customs officers and issuing emergency decrees to gear up for the increas ...
More than 10,000 students skipped school again in Belgium to join a march demanding better protections of the globe's fragile climate.Despite the rain and cold, the colorful protest march in Brussels ...
Work on a major new nuclear power station in Britain was suspended after the developer, Japan's Hitachi, said Thursday it had been unable to agree on financing with the U.K. government.Hitachi said Th ...
A deputy of Gdansk's slain mayor says he has met with the attacker's mother and that the family needs protection against hate messages.Mayor Pawel Adamowicz's coffin will lie in state on Thursday at t ...
Kenyan bomb disposal experts on Thursday searched for explosives left over from the extremist attack on a Nairobi luxury hotel complex in which 21 people, plus five attackers, were killed.The Kenyan g ...
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:1. MAY BATTLES TO KEEP BREXIT ON TRACKEuropean Union countries are also debating how to move forw ...
The head of the World Health Organization has ordered an internal investigation into allegations the U.N. health agency is rife with racism, sexism and corruption, after a series of anonymous emails w ...
China minced no words on Thursday as it rejected an accusation by Canada's foreign minister that its detentions of Canadians pose a threat to all countries."I think your foreign minister may be in a h ...