International Monetary Fund and European Commission officials are in Dublin to discuss a bailout to help Ireland cope with its struggling banks. Last month, the Irish government doubled to 15 billion euros the amount of money it reckoned was needed to bring its deficit under control by 2014, a move

College and university endowments made gains in the fiscal year that ended in June, but many are still struggling to make up ground they lost in 2008 and 2009, according to a report released Tue ...

Caribbean corals are being exposed to water temperatures higher than those reported during a record bleaching period five years ago and could start dying in the coming weeks, scientists said Tue ...

Booming populations, rapid urbanization and competing demands for food and energy will drain Asia's dwindling freshwater supplies unless the region better manages its resources, experts said Tue ...

Emissions cuts pledged by countries in a nonbinding climate accord last year fall short of what's needed to avoid the worst consequences of global warming, the U.N.'s environment agency said Tue ...

A British woman caught on tape stroking a cat, picking it up by the scruff of its neck and casually throwing it into its owners' trash bin pleaded guilty to a single charge of animal cruelty Tue ...