European officials are playing a dangerous game of chicken with Greece.

Sometimes more money just buys more unhappiness. Take China, for example. Everyone assumed that people would get happier as their wallets got fatter. But a new study shows that the opposite occurred, at least for those at the lower end of the income spectrum.

As Greece teeters on the edge of financial collapse, European officials have a new task before them: preventing the financial turmoil from spreading around the rest of the world.

Eduardo Saverin, one of four co-founders of Facebook, has renounced his U.S. citizenship. The move may reduce his tax bill following the initial public offering that values the social-network powerhouse at as much as $96 billion.

H&M made a splash with its new bathing suits, but not in the way the Swedish clothing retailer intended. It is in hot water with the Swedish Cancer Society over its latest ad campaign.

Russians prefer their Lay's potato chips dusted in caviar and crab flavors. The Chinese like their Oreos stuffed with mango and orange cream. And in Spain, Kellogg's All-Bran cereal is served floating in hot coffee instead of cold milk.

When Ojacy Curbello and her husband opened a restaurant at their home in Havana in late December, not a single customer showed up.

Disgraced former press baron Conrad Black was released from a Florida prison on Friday after ending his sentence but he was immediately taken into custody by U.S. immigration officials.

In this small Icelandic village, sailors are making double their pre-crisis pay, haddock sales to places like Boston and Brussels are booming and unemployment is almost zero - signs of this island's surprisingly rapid rise from the ashes of banking ruin.

Europe's two-year-old strategy of austerity isn't working. And there is no Plan B. Overall unemployment hit a 15-year high of 10.9% in March.

Spain's sickly economy faces a "crisis of huge proportions", a minister said on Friday, as unemployment hit its highest level in two decades and Standard and Poor's weighed in with a two-notch downgrade of the government's debt.

For years, Wal-Mart has been synonymous with low-cost shopping for middle- and low-income earners. But now it could  become the poster child for how big multinationals should not do business abroad.

Rupert Murdoch was questioned at a public inquiry Wednesday, denying charges that he used his British newspapers to influence politicians for the benefit of his business.

A Chinese fashion firm, Xiamen Jinzhi, has named a line of its sunglasses Helen Keller.  This is no marketing mistake, or lost in translation.