France

French unions have staged a day of strikes and estimate 2.5 million people took to the streets to protest government plans to reform the pension system. The government says there were 1.12 million protesters across France.

Transport, schools and hospitals across France are facing severe disruptions in services as unions stage a day of strikes and demonstrations in protest at government plans to reform the pension system and raise the retirement age from 60 to 62.

The effort to rescue 33 trapped miners will cost millions of dollars but Chile will spare no effort to free them, officials said as the trapped workers passed the one-month mark below ground.As experts mulled three separate plans for digging them out,...

Iran said on Tuesday that it was within its rights to vet UN inspectors who monitor its nuclear facilities after the UN watchdog said its work was being hampered by the barring of some of its staff. "We have this right ... to change the inspectors as per...

Iran said on Tuesday that it was within its rights to vet UN inspectors who monitor its nuclear facilities after the UN watchdog said its work was being hampered by the barring of some of its staff. "We have this right ... to change the inspectors as per...

Liu Tao grimaces as he leaps up and down doing jumping jacks, one of the exercises he sweats through under a revived daily calisthenics routine that authorities in Beijing want all workers to perform.Suspended three years ago due to low interest, the mass...

Violent aftershocks rattled Christchurch Tuesday as parts of the city re-opened for the first time since New Zealand's biggest quake in nearly 80 years.The official geological monitoring service GeoNet reported more than a dozen aftershocks overnight, two...

The head of South Korea's second-largest automaker Kia Motors has resigned to take responsibility for mass vehicle recalls caused by defective electrical wiring, the company said Tuesday.Chung Sung-Eun, who is also a vice chairman of the Hyundai-Kia...

Prime Minister George Papandreou reshuffled his government Tuesday to speed up the economic revival of recession-mired Greece, which had been on the brink of bankruptcy, the government spokesman said.The expanded government, announced nearly a year after...

Former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Mark Hurd, who resigned last month following a sex scandal, has joined US software giant Oracle as its new co-president, The New York Times said Monday.Hurd joined Oracle as president and as a director, the Times...