(Adds UK position in 8th paragraph. See {EXT3 } for more on the debt crisis.) By James G. Neuger and Gregory Viscusi May 9 (Bloomberg) -- European Union finance ministers meet today to hammer out the details of an emergency fund to prevent a sovereign ...

We asked our Facebook fans to weigh in on Mother's Day. Here are some of their responses; in some cases edited for brevity: Shari Kean-Bearce: I would like to tell my mother I love her, but I can't because she's in heaven.

WASHINGTON - The kind of bungee jump that stocks took Thursday, plunging abruptly before snapping partway back in a brief frenzy of electronic trading, has worried market operators and experts on trading for some time.

NEW YORK - Betty White demonstrated how it's done as host of this week's "Saturday Night Live." Drawing on her six decades in comedy, she was the consummate pro at 88 years old - sweet, sassy, salty, charming and clearly game for anything.

Iron Man 2 is on track to rake in more than $130 million in its opening weekend–an impressive haul, though not enough to break The Dark Knight's $158 million record.

Thomas Balmes is a French documentary filmmaker who has made a few little-seen works of cultural anthropology - the conversion of Papua New Guinea natives to Christianity, Finns seeing how their outsourced cellphones are manufactured in China.

It is 50 years since the pill was first approved as a contraceptive, finally divorcing sex from pregnancy. But half a century on, our relationship with the tablet credited with revolutionising women's lives is not always an easy one.

A rare strain of E. coli never before associated with foodborne illness in the United States has sickened 29 people in three states, public health officials said Friday.

In fact, the celebration was so significant that the 2010 Oktibbeha County Relay for Life set a local record in the annual event's fund-raising for the American Cancer Society.