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Britain's highest court ruled in favour of one of Europe's richest women on Wednesday in a landmark divorce case that gives new legal status to pre-nuptial agreements in the country.German heiress Katrin Radmacher had asked the Supreme Court to reco

LONDON – European stock markets steadied Wednesday as the surprise of China's first interest rate increase in three years slowly wore off.The dollar remained supported following the rate hike, which stoked investor worries about the global eco

Police cleared protestors blockading French fuel depots on Wednesday as the government warned of economic damage from prolonged strikes against its plan to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62.A third of France's filling stations ran dry on Tuesda

Portugal's main opposition party set conditions Wednesday for supporting an austerity budget, seeking to shift the onus onto the minority Socialist government to cut public spending further.Financial markets see Portugal as one of the weak links in

Britain will unveil billions of pounds in public spending cuts Wednesday in a sweeping review of government expenditure expected to trigger half a million job losses as it tackles a huge deficit.Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative-Liberal De

KABUL, Afghanistan – The Afghan president says he will not listen to any more pleas from the international community to halt his planned shut down of private security companies.President Hamid Karzai told reporters Wednesday that he was tired

Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher was in hospital Wednesday undergoing precautionary tests as she struggles to recover from a bout of flu, her son and the government said.She was taken to a London hospital Tuesday after contracting the flu las

Somali gunmen who last week abducted a Zimbabwean working for British charity Save the Children released him early Wednesday, the hostage told AFP. I am well and free...and travelling back to Adado, Frans Barnard said on telephone, referring to the

The pound faces further pressure against the euro from savage government spending cuts after being plagued by the prospect of more stimulus measures from the Bank of England, analysts said.Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne will Wednesday de