Alexander C. Kaufman

M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have threatened to re-invade Goma.

Greek wages are falling rapidly, even while euro zone averages remain relatively stagnant.

A former Tiffany executive may face 30 years in prison if convicted of massive theft.

The Bank of England should replace Charles Darwin with Ada Lovelace as the face of the £10 note, a petition says.

Gawker's editor said he is talking to various charities in Canada about giving them the money.

Among properties the Tribune is getting are 14 CW affiliates, 14 Fox affiliates, five CBS affiliates and three ABC affiliates.

Greece says it's on its way to revival and now is the time to invest. But don't go there just yet.

Congress will allow interest rates on student loans to double on Monday to 6.8 percent for more than 7 million students.

Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party has called for a summer of protests.

The "Sesame Street" duo appears on the front of this week's issue.

Lukoil says it expects the West Qurna-2 field to start producing oil by 2014.

Barry Diller's online TV service is opening up shop in Chicago in September, making the Second City its fourth metropolitan area.

The BBC and CNN are the targets of some Turkish officials' ire.

After the Blackhawks' Stanley Cup victory, Chicago woke up very unproductive -- and that can be costly.

Hong Kong says the U.S. messed up the middle name on its provisional arrest warrant request.

Hong Kong International Airport earned $725 million.

The banks in Canada didn't experience capital migration after the recession and recovered quickly.

As head count reductions decrease in the equities trading market, a report is predicting a strong year ahead.

KTLA published an email sent to colleagues a day before the reporter's death in a fiery car crash.

A stunt plane crashed at an air show near Dayton, Ohio, killing two people.

Jake Tapper was calling out the Obama administration's enforcement of the Espionage Act back in February 2012.

The petition to pardon the whistle-blower passed the necessary 100,000 signatures.

On the laundry list of things Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan should do to restore his image as a Western-style democratic leader: Fire Egemen Bağiş.The pugnacious European Union minister, responsible for negotiating Turkey’s way into the 27-nation club, has done little but humiliate himself and his country with a series of combative public statements and decrees that make him seem disconnected from reality at best, and waxing despotic at worst.He said in a speech last week that he deemed protesters in Istanbul’s Taksim Square supporters or members of terrorist organizations. He spent 849 words lambasting The Economist over an article comparing Erdoğan to a sultan. And on Thursday, he ignited already fraught relations with Germany, the de facto leader of the EU, by claiming Chancellor Angela Merkel was stalling Turkey’s accession talks because she was “looking for domestic political material for her elections.”

Oracle's revenue remained stagnant in its fourth quarter, ending May 31.

The U.S. and Cuba are holding talks about policies and programs both governments want revised.

Egemen Bağiş is no fan of the Economist, nor of Angela Merkel.

The president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank urged the U.S. Federal Reserve not to taper just yet.

Radiohead's Thom Yorke is auctioning his 2005 painting in London.

Japan's largest bank is paying big-time for its alleged illegal dealings with Iran and other sanctioned regimes.