France's President Nicolas Sarkozy unveiled a series of conservative social reforms on Thursday, including plans to force the jobless to accept offers of work, just days before he is due to officially launch his re-election campaign.

Henrique Capriles Radonski, a Venezuelan state governor, is showing signs of strength in his campaign to oust President Hugo Chavez.

The Senate committee's vote comes as the Supreme Court prepares to hear five and a half hours of argument in March in a challenge to President Obama’s health-care reform law. 

? You can run, but you can't hide. Especially in a social world. It's one of the stark realities that hit home last week with the uproar sparked when the Susan G. Komen Foundation yanked, then reinstated, its funding to Planned Parenthood. In today's...

(Kitco News) ? Comex April gold futures ended the U.S. day session lower and near the daily low Wednesday as some profit-taking pressure was featured. The key "outside markets" also turned from a bullish posture for the precious metals in early deali...

President Barack Obama on Thursday declared that 10 states are free from the No Child Left Behind law, allowing them to scrap some of the most rigorous and unpopular mandates in American education. In exchange, the states are promising higher standa...

Ford Motor Co. Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally, saying he has no plans to retire, said his top finance executive and product-development chief will depart.

More than two years after it came clean about its addiction to debt, Greece may finally have begun its long and painful road to recovery.

LONDON — A British judge has sent nine men to prison for plotting to set up a terrorist training camp and bomb the London Stock Exchange. The British Muslims pleaded guilty last week. Mohammed Chowdhury, 21; Shah Rahman, 28; Gurukanth Desai, 30; and ...

The driver of a stolen car abandoned the vehicle early Thursday during a short police chase and took refuge on rooftops in Westwood, taunting officers during a continuing standoff that has lasted for hours, police said.