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Asian shares struggled and credit markets weakened Monday, with investors still nervous despite the agreement on formation of a new Greek unity government intent on avoiding imminent debt default.

A retired right-wing general promising a crackdown on violent crime won Guatemala's presidential election Sunday and will be the first military man to take power since democracy was restored in 1986.

The Kenyan government made a move this week to begin laying down a framework for regulating bio-prospecting by foreign groups, discouraging bio-piracy and spurring commercialization simultaneously.

The latest news isn't good for the airline industry as it cuts back flights to and from Bangkok during the floods.

Berlusconi is facing a mountain of opposition to his reforms.

The Eurozone won verbal support but no new money at a G20 summit on Friday for its tortured efforts to overcome a sovereign debt crisis, while Italy was effectively placed under IMF supervision.

Jose Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission (EC), nonetheless told reporters in Cannes that Berlusconi was not forced into it.

South Africa on Thursday said it signed an agreement with 12 other countries to combat cross-border tax evasion.

Just when you think the United States economy is about to tip back into a recession -- the dreaded double-dip -- up pops the unexpected -- modestly encouraging economic news, in the form of worker productivity and unit labor costs.

Cannes is the incongruously glamorous backdrop for a meeting designed to desperately find a solution to Europe’s greatest crisis in more than 70 years.

Mario Draghi faces a storm at his first policy meeting as European Central Bank president on Thursday but is unlikely to be pushed into a dramatic ramping up the bank's response to the escalating euro zone crisis.

The leaders of the world's major economies will meet in Cannes, France starting Thursday to discuss matters critical to commerce, international trade, and the global economy. That means the discussion will be dominated by Greece.

Severe flooding in Thailand, which has taken the lives of almost 400 people and nearly obliterated its rice crop export, has resulted in a laptop shortage that will undoubtedly cause prices of electronics to rise, just in time for the holiday shopping season.

Cannes, the beach resort in the south of France, is the ideal locale for the G-20 economic summit.

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday slashed its forecast for economic growth, raised projections for unemployment, and suggested Europe's debt crisis posed big downside risks to the U.S. economy.

The U.S. job market continues to register incremental progress, as the private sector added 110,000 jobs in October, ADP said, with job gains concentrated in the services sector and in small/medium companies.

Many travelers are utterly confused by the latest news about the floods in Bangkok. Is it safe to travel to the Land of Smiles?

To say that the bankruptcy filing of MF Global and a Greek referendum on its bailout package have unnerved institutional investors would be an understatement. Where's the Dow headed in the next 3-6 months?

At year-end, Brazil’s GDP is expected to hit $2.44 trillion, just a hair above the $2.43 trillion figure for the UK.

Flood waters in Bangkok and across Thailand are finally receding, after months of what eventually became the worst flooding in the country in 50 years.

The economy gained momentum for a third straight month in August, growing 0.3 percent from September and putting to rest fears of a recession, but not showing enough strength to trigger interest rate hikes