Environment ministers from 40 nations meet today in Warsaw to lay the groundwork for new climate-change regulations that may raise costs for polluting industries such as power generation and transportation.
Ireland won European Union approval for its plan to guarantee all bank deposits and liabilities after submitting a number of “clarifications and modifications.”
The $700-billion bailout bill signed into law last week by President George Bush included a provision which placed medical and physical care on an equal footing insofar as insurance coverage is concerned.
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) pumped a record 4 trillion yen into the Tokyo money market Thursday, the biggest single day injection since the central bank started emergency operation.
Greece and Italy banned all short sales today after their benchmark indexes fell the most in more than a decade.
Citigroup Inc. walked away from its attempt to buy Wachovia Corp., handing victory to Wells Fargo & Co. in a struggle for the nation´s sixth-biggest bank.
The chairman of the Senate intelligence committee is looking into allegations that a U.S. spy agency improperly eavesdropped on the phone calls of hundreds of Americans overseas, including aid workers and U.S. military personnel talking to their spouses at home.
Montenegro and the Republic of Macedonia recognized Kosovo´s independence, drawing condemnation from neighboring Serbia, which expelled the Montenegrin ambassador from Belgrade.
NATO defense ministers Friday authorized their troops in Afghanistan to attack drug barons blamed for pumping up to $100 million a year into the coffers of resurgent Taliban fighters.
A South Korean court upheld a suspended prison sentence for Samsung Group´s former chairman Lee Kun Hee over a conviction for tax evasion.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state legislators agreed to set aside their differences as they search for solutions to the state´s financial crisis.
Pointing to studies showing that gay high school students are at greater risk of dropping out because of stigma and fear of violence, Chicago Public Schools leaders said Wednesday that they will recommend opening a campus aimed at these students.
North Korea announced Thursday that it is preparing to restart the facility that produced its atomic bomb, indicating that it plans to pull out of an international deal to end its nuclear program.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has asked eastern European allies to send more troops to Afghanistan.
Tens of thousands of eligible voters have been removed from rolls or blocked from registering in at least six swing states, and the voters´ exclusion appears to violate federal law, according to a published report.
Judge Marilyn Patel ruled in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to extend a temporary restraining order against RealNetworks´ RealDVD software.
Frustrated parents are dumping their teenagers at Nebraska hospitals -- even crossing state lines to do it -- and the state Legislature has scheduled a special hearing to try to stem the tide.
President Bush signed into law the lifting of a ban on nuclear trade with India.
The US Supreme Court began hearing arguments Wednesday into whether national security trumps the well-being of whales off the coast of California.
Turkey´s parliament has voted to extend the military´s authority to conduct operations against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq.
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