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France and England signed a new nuclear-energy pact on Friday that will lead to the construction of more nuclear power plants in the United Kingdom, with more than 500 million pounds sterling ($791 million) of private-sector investment.

E. coli-infected raw clover sprouts sickened at least a dozen people across at least five states, officials announced Wednesday, the first reported food-borne E. coli outbreak of 2012.

The market capitalization of U.S. equity markets has increased by $3 trillion since last October.

In a curt five-minute statement at the Bellevue presidential palace, Wulff said he had lost the trust of the German people, making it impossible to continue in a role that is meant to serve as a moral compass for the nation.

German president Christian Wulff resigned from his position Friday due to increasing criticism over corruption allegations.

Kosovo celebrates its fourth anniversary of Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) on Feb. 17. Even after four years of its UDI, the Albanian majority country is still to make any head way towards development or in ensuring stability in the region. The biggest challenge it faces includes its conflict with Serbia, which don't recognize Kosovo's independence and the resistance from several of the European Union countries that oppose its inclusion in the Union.The territorial confl...

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development released a report Tuesday calling on Germany to raise its property taxes dramatically. The group has also called on Denmark, Norway, and the U.K. to do the same.

It may be safe to say that Apple is dominating the mobile market, especially after a recent lawsuit against Motorola. The company has just won a patent debacle against Motorola in regards to Apple’s staple “slide to unlock” feature on smartphones. The Munich Regional Court in Germany ruled that the competitor smartphone supplier infringes Apple’s European patent, and the decision imposes a permanent injunction against Motorola devices.

Ground workers began striking on Thursday at Frankfurt Airport, Europe's third busiest airport, which has caused more than 150 flight cancellations. The strike took place from 3 p.m. until 10 p.m. (CET). Workers are expected to strike on Friday, too. The Financial Times reports that strikes could last until the weekend.

Greece’s finance minister Evangelos Venizelos has suggested some countries in the bloc want Greece to leave the eurozone.

Worldwide sales of gold last year soared 29 percent to a record high as two groups of investors, each with mutually exclusive views of economic and financial threats, flocked to the yellow metal and related assets.

Greece expressed hope it was within days of finally securing a 130-billion-euro EU/IMF bailout to ease its debt crisis but markets reacted sceptically on Thursday as acrimony grew between Athens and eurozone partners led by Germany.

Greece expressed hope it was within days of finally securing a 130-billion-euro EU/IMF bailout to ease its debt crisis but markets reacted skeptically on Thursday as acrimony grew between Athens and euro zone partners led by Germany.

Gold demand struck 14-year highs in 2011, driven by record investment, buying in China, which could overtake India this year as the world's top consumer, and central bank purchases, which hit their highest in at least 40 years, according to a report on Thursday.

Asian shares and the euro fell Thursday as another delay in cementing a crucial bailout for stricken Greece underscored how far Europe is from resolving a debt crisis that threatens the stability of the financial system.

European Union finance ministers will meet in Brussels to finalise Greece's second bail out deal.

Greece expressed hope Wednesday that it can secure its second EU/IMF bailout in as many years and a deal on easing its debt burden next week, but its euro zone peers made clear the months of increasingly ill-tempered argument are not quite over yet.

Sens. Dick Durbin and Tom Coburn sent a letter to Twitter's CEO on Wednesday asking the company about the details of a new privacy policy that allows governments to censor certain tweets.

Dozens of Costa Concordia survivors have joined in a Florida lawsuit against Carnival Corp. accusing them of negligence and fraud.

In light of Iran's apparent nuclear capabilities, Russia argues that Western economic sanctions have failed and the time for negotiations is now.

In country after country in Europe the so-called bitter pill approach has been wholeheartedly embraced as the only solution by both conservative and leftwing governments. Problem is, it's looking more and more likely that they're wrong: as a strategy, austerity has by and large failed.