As swaths of southern Europe continue to swelter under a deadly heat wave, for many outdoor workers, it's turning into a brutal endurance test.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has called for patience in a speech released as the ruling Communist Party tries to reverse a deepening economic slump and said the West’s pursuit of material wealth led to “spiritual poverty.”

New Zealand’s new government will seek advice on whether to undertake deeper reforms at the central bank in

The UK government will welcome foreign political leaders, tech industry figures, academics and others this week for a two-day summit billed as the first of...

The U.S. Department of Transportation is awarding $1.7 billion in grants for buying zero- and low-emission buses

John Paulson asked a judge to sanction his former Puerto Rico business partner and his lawyers for filing

Cisco Systems Inc., the largest maker of computer networking equipment, gave a lukewarm revenue forecast for the coming

A group of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “old friends” from Iowa have been invited to a dinner he

United Airlines Holdings Inc. discovered dubious parts in two aircraft engines, adding to the list of carriers worldwide

There may not be any lasting major negative ramifications from the surprise US credit rating downgrade by Fitch this week — not for the economy, not for consumers and not for the government's ability to borrow.

Indonesia’s paradise island teeming with beaches and lush rice fields wants to refocus its tourism away from guests

Seven of the activists who repeatedly have demonstrated against a wind farm in in central Norway that they say hinders the rights of the Sami Indigenous people to raise reindeer have met with the Norwegian king