Herman Van Rompuy

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Japanese stocks turned negative on Friday and the yen reversed early losses, keeping intact worries that the Nikkei's largest one-day drop in two years may be the start of a bigger rout. In a sign that many are still spooked by...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron called on the European Union to use the impetus of the G8 summit he is hosting in June to organize "radical" international action to crack down on tax evasion and avoidance. In a letter to...

The U.S. and European leaders are working on a new agreement they say could expand transatlantic trade and investment, officials announced Wednesday morning. In a statement, President Obama and European Union leaders said they are launching talks...

The first people to tell the public that the world's oldest bank was cooking its books weren't the bank's executives, its outside auditors at KPMG, its regulators at the Bank of Italy, or anyone else who had a duty to keep the place honest. They were...

LONDON -- Hailing postwar European reconciliation as “probably the most dramatic example in history to show that war and conflict can be turned so rapidly into peace and cooperation,” Nobel committee Chairman Thorbjorn Jagland presented the...

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the European Union in recognition of its work in bringing peace and reconciliation to a continent riven by two world wars....

European leaders meeting in Brussels agreed Thursday to spend about $149 billion on public projects and job creation, but so far have failed to act against the Eurozone's crushing debt problems. European Council President Herman Van Rompuy told...

EU-Russia summit: European leaders are expected to press the contentious issue of Syria at a European Union-Russian summit Monday in St. Petersburg, but few believe Russian President Vladimir Putin will agree to ramp up pressure on the Syrian government.....