President Barack Obama named a Goldman Sachs executive and large campaign contributor as U.S. ambassador to Canada on Thursday amid potential rifts between the two allies over the Keystone XL pipeline. Bruce Heyman, managing director for private wealth management at the investment bank, lives ...

Germany has near record-low unemployment and a locomotive-strong economy, which leaves Frieder Beckmann with a question: Why can he only get a job that pays $2 an hour? It is the kind of question that is also being voiced by other Germans, who say ...

Scotland on Wednesday marks a year to go until its independence referendum — but separatists face an uphill struggle to convince voters to back a momentous split from the United Kingdom. Charismatic Scottish leader Alex Salmond has brought his Scottish National Party closer than ...

Chancellor Angela Merkel launched a final week of election campaigning Monday with the wind at her back after a resounding victory for her conservatives in a Bavarian state poll. But while her conservatives captured nearly one vote in two in the wealthy southern region ...

The first sign that Republican leaders could not control their new majority came on a vote to help Americans who lose their jobs to foreign workers. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor considered the measure routine and in February 2011 put it on a list ...

Norway shifted right in elections Monday, ending eight years of center-left rule and setting the stage for a new Conservative-led government with the populist anti-immigration Progress Party as junior partner. Incumbent Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg of the Labor Party conceded defeat late in the ...

In a mayoral election that tested the Kremlin’s strategy against its opposition, and that brought some of the divisions within the Kremlin itself close to the surface, charismatic anti-corruption Moscow mayoral candidate Alexei Navalny made a far stronger showing than expected Sunday. Incumbent Mayor ...