Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick announced Tuesday he would take an indefinite leave of absence as the embattled ridesharing giant unveiled major reforms to address damaging allegations of corporate misconduct.

Spain's government on Tuesday faced a vote of no confidence tabled by the far-left Podemos to denounce a series of corruption scandals that have hit Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's conservative party.

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Tuesday there is a very strong possibility that France will miss its deficit target for this year because of the previous government's lax spending.

Turkey's economy grew a stronger-than-expected 5.0 percent in the first quarter of 2017, official data showed on Monday, driven by a surge in export growth.

Qatar Airways said Sunday its net profits rose by almost 22 percent in the last financial year that ended in March, before the diplomatic fallout with its Gulf neighbors.

The pound struggled on Monday to bounce back from last week's sharp losses that came in the wake of a shock British election result that has thrown the country into uncertainty.

In the living room of his small Athens flat, 40-year-old Dimitris Voutsinos scours the web for job ads -- one of thousands struggling to cope as Greece's economic crisis endures.

The price of a pack of cigarettes doubled for Saudi Arabian smokers on Sunday under first-time tax measures to help the kingdom cope with a drop in oil revenues.

The end of roaming fees in the EU is drawing loud cheers from mobile phone users, and nowhere more so than in borderlands where residents are always just a step away from involuntarily incurring hefty surcharges.

Farmers and fishermen displaced by Boko Haram violence in northeast Nigeria want to return home, saying it will help ease chronic food shortages for the remote region's starving millions.