To cancel one high-level Franco-German meeting is unfortunate. To cancel two in less than a week implies a bank of freezing fog is descending over the Rhine.
Abu Dhabi has about 9 percent of the world's oil and 0.02 percent of its population. The result is a surfeit of petrodollars, much of which is funneled into a secretive, government-controlled investment fund that is helping to shift the balance of power in the financial world.
The number of deaths linked to hospital bug Clostridium difficile has soared in England and Wales, figures from the Office for National Statistics show.
Floridians could not have been caught more unaware by Tuesday's massive, afternoon-long blackout. Although temperatures have been unseasonably high this month, they were hardly torrid enough to overload the peninsula's air conditioners.
LONDON - Failure to end Kenya's political deadlock could lead to more bloodshed and a "devastating" flight of the workers who have driven its economic success, an exiled former anti-corruption adviser warned on Wednesday.
Children who have a poor diet are more likely to become aggressive and anti-social, US researchers believe.
Insurance claims following the biggest earthquake in the UK for 25 years will run to millions of pounds, experts say.
After antidepressant treatments are discredited, fears grow that other products may be ineffective
UNITED NATIONS - By the end of this year one half of the world's population will be living in cities for the first time in human history, the United Nations said in a new report released on Tuesday.
Former UN chief Kofi Annan will push Kenyan leaders Wednesday to end the country's deadly political crisis after suspending talks between their representatives when they failed to reach a deal.
(LONDON) - Drug-resistant tuberculosis is spreading even faster than medical experts had feared, the World Health Organization warned in a report issued Tuesday. The rate of TB patients infected with the drug-resistant strain topped 20 percent in some countries, the highest ever recorded, the U.N. agency said.
BEIRUT - Lebanon's political crisis is becoming more complicated and foreign influence over the struggle between the Beirut governing coalition and Hezbollah-led opposition is unprecedented, a mediator has said.
HAVANA - Vatican secretary of state Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone raised the Catholic Church's concern about prisoners in Cuba in a meeting with Cuban President Raul Castro on Tuesday.
The biggest earthquake in the UK for nearly 25 years has shaken homes across large parts of the country.
The dollar fell to a record low of $1.50 per euro on speculation Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke will indicate the U.S. central bank is prepared to keep lowering interest rates.