The lack of concrete data on which facilities were emitting greenhouse gases and how much they were spewing into the atmosphere led to a major flaw in the European Union's cap-and-trade system: the over-allocation of pollution permits to industry. This mistake led to the collapse of the carbon market. Thanks to action taken by the Environmental Protection Agency this month, the United States will not make the same mistake. ...more

March 28, 2009

Jubilant ethnic Albanians poured into the streets Tuesday to celebrate the first anniversary of Kosovo's independence from Serbia, as nationalist Serbian lawmakers joined their ethnic kin in northern Kosovo to try to undermine the tiny country. ...more

February 18, 2009

The hard part is still to come. Almost every significant issue between Hamas and Israel remains unresolved despite a unilateral cease-fire by Israel that went into effect before dawn Sunday in Gaza and Hamas' later announcement that it would halt fighting for one week. ...more

January 19, 2009

Fuel delivery to four European countries fell below normal Saturday as Russia's state gas monopoly withheld natural gas from neighboring Ukraine for the third consecutive day. ...more

January 4, 2009

Guinea's coup leader declared a zero-tolerance policy on corruption Saturday, vowing to renegotiate the country's many mining contracts and warning that anyone who embezzles state funds will be executed. ...more

December 28, 2008

The United States is committed to Ukraine's security and freedom, Vice President Dick Cheney pledged Friday, suggesting that Russia was posing a "threat of tyranny, economic blackmail and military invasion" to its neighbor. ...more

September 6, 2008

Russia tried to block Kosovo's independence during a closed-door emergency session of the U.N. Security Council on Sunday, saying it is deeply concerned about the safety of Serbs living in the territory. ...more

February 18, 2008

Serbia's newly re-elected president Boris Tadic pledged at his inauguration Friday that he would never stop fighting against independence for Kosovo. ...more

February 16, 2008

The dollar gained on the euro Friday after a report showed that inflation in the 13 nations that use the euro surged to an annualized rate of 3.1 percent in November, the highest level since the currency was first used in 2002 and above an earlier estimate. ...more

December 15, 2007

A bomb hidden in a package delivered to a law office several blocks from the Arc de Triomphe in central Paris exploded Thursday, killing a secretary and seriously injuring a lawyer, French police said. ...more

December 7, 2007