Greece's debt is a serious issue, and coming up with a plan for going forward is also very much a problem for the European Union.

An ongoing battle between Rupert Murdoch, Silvio Berlusconi and Muammar al-Gaddafi involves adult television programming, an ultraviolent war film, and lots of money and bitterness flying around.

With the level of destruction in Burma on scale with Darfur, some Karen refugees are resettling in the cold climate of Ireland.

The result of the Copenhagen summit ended up being a small, creaking movement of the world's political machinery, while the polar ice caps continue to melt without hesitation.

In these hard economic times, Ukraine is struggling to pull itself out of Russia's shadow and out of debt, aiming to establish itself as a viable free-market state.

With the United Nations struggling to maintain its relevence in the modernized world, its relationship with the European Union is proving to be an important one.

With the U.N. Climate Change Conference in its final week, Worldpress.org reviews a sample of the varied assessments so far from around the globe.

The ongoing tensions between the countries of the Caucasus, which can be traced back over a century, threaten to destabilize not only the region but also the Western nations connected economically.

Two relatively unknown politicians have been appointed to top spots in the E.U. The jury will be out for a while on the level of effect they will have.

Reforms of the World Bank should be part of a coordinated global effort to make poverty history.

In the gloomy downturn of the economic market, Lithuania is seeing some light, with investment prospects coming from global sources.

The state-supported student loan system is under fire in Lithuania, with many arguing that students financial situations are getting increasingly worse.