An emergency Italian cabinet meeting called to accelerate budget reforms and calm market turmoil ended late on Wednesday with yet more bickering among coalition partners and little progress on reforms

Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday he had 100 'undeniable documents' proving the United States has been behind 'terrorist acts' in the Islamic state and elsewhere in the Mi

ArcelorMittal SA, the world's largest steelmaker, said on Thursday a summer dip is deepening into a second-half slump, with even lower steel shipments expected in the fourth quarter than the third and

European leaders were preparing on Thursday for the possibility of Greece leaving the euro zone to preserve the 12-year-old single currency.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Ang

The Greek government teetered on the brink of collapse on Thursday over plans for a referendum on a euro zone bailout, with ruling party defections casting grave doubt on whether Prime Minister George

Private carrier Kingfisher Airlines on Wednesday denied it was going for another debt restructuring but said it had sought lenders' help to substitute high-cost rupee borrowings with low-cost foreign

The Greek government faced possible collapse on Tuesday as ruling party lawmakers demanded Prime Minister George Papandreou resign for throwing the nation's euro membership into jeopardy with a shock

Abdurrahim El-Keib, pitched from academic obscurity to head Libya's new government, set about selecting his cabinet on Tuesday, hoping to rally the disparate groups which toppled Muammar Gaddafi behin

Chinese and Russian firms are the most likely to pay bribes while operating abroad, and the most corrupt sectors are public works contracts and construction, according to Transparency International's

India could consider supporting extra financing for the euro zone if European policymakers make a credible assessment of its solvency problems, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters on Wedn