U.S. Media

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany said she would discuss stimulus programs to get the Greek economy growing again and that she was committed to keeping Greece in the euro zone.

A group of high-profile Republican strategists is working with a conservative billionaire, Joe Ricketts, seeking to mount one of the most provocative campaigns of the “super PAC” era.

Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi spoke amid concerns about the potential for voting fraud and the military’s willingness to shift to civilian control.

Until now, Patrick Henri Devillers, a French architect who has been part of the Bo Xilai drama in China, had not been heard from.

The Central American country is a growing focus of American efforts aimed at drug cartels that have sought to use its ungoverned spaces.

Non-Hispanic white births are no longer a majority in the United States, a tipping point that has implications for politics, the economy and a nation’s identity.

North Korea has resumed construction of a nuclear reactor that can be used to expand the country’s nuclear weapons program, an American-based institute said Thursday.

The bill awaiting action by President Dilma Rousseff would effectively give amnesty to landowners who illegally deforested areas before 2008.

Continental Europeans are being asked to contribute millions to keep Afghanistan secure after NATO withdraws, but they sound less optimistic than the United States and Britain do.

The first NATO summit meeting to be held in the United States outside of Washington will amount to a significant trial for Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

The scandal that has shaken Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire is now the focus of three Scotland Yard inquires and more than 100 civil lawsuits.

France’s new president, François Hollande, unveiled a center-left cabinet on Wednesday, leaving out the head of the Socialist Party, Martine Aubry, who is considered on the left-wing of the party.

A seriocomedy about life under occupation, “Food and Fadwa” is the inaugural production of Noor Theater, the Middle Eastern American company in residence at New York Theater Workshop.

Cloud storage, now offered by a number of companies in different price ranges, offers a substitute for physical storage, with the additional ability to synchronize across multiple devices.

Despite the overwhelming level of interest in its I.P.O., Facebook is facing fresh concerns over its ability to attract enough advertising revenue. Will the social network reach its advertising potential?

Taliban attacks are jumping in the southern Afghan areas that were the focus of the 2010 U.S. troop surge, clouding hopes of pacifying the region before the U.S. withdrawal.

Greece mandated a senior judge to form a government as caretaker prime minister ahead of new elections next month, after political parties failed to agree on a political or technocratic heavyweight for the job.

Japan's economy grew an annualized 4.1% in the quarter ended in March, as resurgent domestic demand and government spending helped fuel recovery from last year's natural disasters and supply disruptions that depressed growth.

Quebec promised new laws aimed at reopening graduate classrooms closed by a 14-week student protest that has convulsed Montreal with often violent demonstrations.

Indonesian authorities said they have found the voice and data recorder from a Russian jet that crashed last week during a demonstration flight, killing all 45 people on board.