Ferrari World, the world's largest indoor theme park and the first with a Ferrari theme, opened on Thursday in the Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi.

World stock markets climbed and the dollar sank Thursday after the Federal Reserve said it will buy $600 billion in government bonds in a new attempt to jump-start the faltering U.S. economy.

MIAMI — The world's thirst for crude is leading oil exploration companies into ever deeper waters and ventures fraught...

World stocks soared to highs last seen before Lehman Brothers' collapse in 2008 and the dollar fell sharply on Thursday on rising risk appetite in the afterglow of the Federal Reserve's asset buying plan.

World capitals on Wednesday braced for a new political order in Washington, as policymakers and analysts tried to assess the impact on foreign policy of a new Republican-led U.S. House, a diminished Democratic majority in the Senate and an American president many fear has been left weakened.

The World Bank , which has increased loans for renewable energies over the past decade, needs to better assess the results of projects it finances, an internal audit of the bank’s efforts to mitigate climate change says.

Mayors from some of the world's major cities on Friday vowed to do their part in curbing the carbon emissions blamed for global warming, ahead of a major UN climate meeting later this month.

Olympic champions Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter win the lightweight men's double scull at the World Championships, while fellow Britons Frances Houghton and Debbie Flood regain their women's quad crown.

The newly designated world's oldest person, Eunice Sanborn of Jacksonville, Texas, is a year older than official records indicate, her family says

The world's thirst for crude is leading oil exploration companies into ever deeper waters and ventures fraught with environmental and political peril.