Africa/International

Oil eased below $75 a barrel on Friday, pressured by a firmer U.S. dollar on growing disappointment among investors over the lack of details from the European Union summit to help debt-laden Greece. European leaders sought to prop up…

Bindi Dupouy, an Australian living in Paris, and her French husband, just had their first child, a son born in the country. Dupouy, a 28-year-old lawyer, got almost five months paid maternity leave from her company for the birth. She can…

Organisers have said they are expecting a ticket sales frenzy ahead of the £113 million EuroMillions jackpot draw. A single ticket winner would break the British lottery record, the National Lottery said. The busiest time for ticket…

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled a $15 billion jobs bill Thursday that would offer businesses a payroll tax holiday for hiring unemployed workers and tax deductions for buying machinery and other capital expenditures. Reid said…

Former President Bill Clinton, who had quadruple bypass surgery more than five years ago, was hospitalized Thursday to have a clogged heart artery opened after suffering discomfort in his chest. Two stents resembling tiny mesh scaffolds…

Asian-focused bank Standard Chartered opened a branch in Angola on Wednesday as it seeks to further broaden its footprint on the African continent. An official for the London-based bank, who declined to be named, confirmed that it had…

European Union leaders will lay the groundwork for a financial rescue of Greece at a summit on Thursday, but any support is likely to require a big commitment from Athens on getting its economy in order. Germany and possibly France are…

Up to 2.5 million years of life are being lost in England to those people dying prematurely each year, according to a new report. The gap between the lifestyles of the rich and poor is having a major impact on the chances of living a…

A self-portrait of Lucian Freud nursing a black eye after a punch-up with a taxi driver has sold for more than £2.8 million when it went under the hammer. Sotheby's described the rediscovered oil on canvas Self-Portrait With A Black Eye,…

A trove of aerial photographs of the collapsing World Trade Center was widely released this week, offering a rare and chilling view from the heavens of the burning twin towers and the apocalyptic shroud of smoke and dust that settled over…