Author : EW News Desk Team

 The European Court of Human Rights has given Italy one year to reduce overcrowding in its prisons, reported the Associated Press, after the government failed to pass legislation designed...

China, the world's largest energy consumer, intends to add an additional 10 gigawatts (GW) of installed solar power capacity to its present energy supply by the end of 2013,...

After paying back its $182 billion bailout, the American International Group is now considering joining a 2011 lawsuit filed against the US government, alleging that federal officials imposed unfair...

Over the past few years, a tough economy has forced highly educated people to turn to food stamps and other forms of welfare for help. Over 5,000 PhDs are...

The semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in Northern Iraq has begun exporting crude oil directly to world markets without central government approval, reported Reuters on Monday, posing questions about Iraq’s ambitious...

Qatar’s government announced on Tuesday that it would be providing an additional $2.5 billion in financial aid to Egypt, taking the gulf state’s contribution to Cairo up to $5...

A free-trade agreement between the United States and Europe, elusive for more than a decade, could soon become a reality as reports indicate that U.S. and EU trade commissioners...

Electric cars have been touted the future of motoring as the supplies of oil dwindle and the cost of fuel at the pump sky rockets. But if every car...

Nearly 3.8 million households in the U.S. will receive a combined settlement of up to $8.5 billion from ten major banks, reported the New York Times, after their home...

IMF and European economists “significantly underestimated” the cost of austerity measures on economies across the eurozone, wrote the fund’s chief economist Oliver Blanchard in a working paper published last...