International Herald Tribune

Those who have gained a measure of freedom and financial independence see little effort by officials to look out for their future.

Wildfires burned down several villages in the central part of the country as forests and swamps turned into tinderboxes under a record-breaking heat wave.

Market data is starting to provide an indication of whether the stress tests on the largest European banks had the desired effect on confidence.

With growth at an annual rate of 2.4 percent in the second quarter and the stimulus fading, an analyst says the rest of the year will feel like a recession.

There were no injuries, but the explosive damaged buildings and brought panic to the streets of Ashkelon on Friday after more than a year of relative calm.

Soldiers shot a leader of the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel Thursday, providing a needed victory to President Felipe Calderón in his war against cartels.

The sentences are the latest indication that Beijing is intensifying its crackdown on any dissent that questions Chinese rule in Xinjiang.

The Continent has generally resisted genetically modified food, but small amounts of meat and dairy from cloned animals are already being consumed.

The Parliament passed a bill reducing the sentences of hundreds of Kurdish youths, some of them guilty only of attending protests.

Even before a report on the nation’s output in the second quarter comes out on Friday, economists are tempering their outlook.

The defense secretary said the breach had endangered lives and damaged the ability of others to trust the U.S.

The world’s population will top 7 billion next year, while the ratio of working age adults to the elderly will decline precipitously in developed countries.

Deprived of jobs and government services, people in Baghlan Province are turning to the Taliban for speedy justice and work.

Salmonella outbreaks that sickened more than 400 in the U.S. and Britain have been traced to mice sold as food for exotic pets.

The founder and early investors in the microlender will reap millions from the share deal, but it was unclear how donors would benefit.

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision that was supposed to toughen worldwide banking regulations seems caught in an endless battle to do so.

Officials said that they were examining the hull of an oil tanker that was damaged as it traversed a waterway between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.

A record heat wave in the country is felt in such ways as smoky peat fires around Moscow and dying trout at a fish farm.

The team says their dark brown calf, named Got, is the only representative of a lineage that goes back 300 years.

For China’s investigative journalists, who grapple with censors, the case of a Shanghai reporter appears to offer a positive turn.