SOFIA, Bulgaria -- Construction of the country's second nuclear plant will be suspended for 18 months after the government's strategic partner, RWE,...

BUCHAREST, Romania -- About 500 farmers protested on Wednesday (October 28th) outside the presidency building in Bucharest, demanding subsidies they...

TIRANA, Albania -- The position of women in Albania must improve in order to give them a more important role in society, a national conference held i...

The Chancellor Alistair Darling has announced that there could be up to three new banks created on British High Streets over the coming years

Tony Blair has been in talks with Tesco about helping them open supermarkets in the Middle East - allegedly in return for up to £1m

Each week we round up share tips from the Sunday newspapers

Major shareholders are this weekend believed to have thrown their weight behind Lloyds Banking Group's plans for Britain's biggest rights issue

Our summary of what the business pages are reporting from the financial world this week

Staff at M&S are confident of securing an annual bonus for the first time in three years as the chain continues to smash City expectations

Jorge Cosmen, deputy chairman of National Express, is expected to resign after failing to orchestrate a shareholder uprising

Publishers fear a profits disaster from readers using wireless technology to escape curbs on illegal downloads

American food giant Kraft is thought to be finalising the terms of its bid for British confectionery company Cadbury

Britains only two stock market-listed pawnbrokers, Albemarle & Bond and H&T, could merge to create the UK's largest pawnbroking business

Gordon Brothers, the US-based restructuring specialist, is understood to be interested in acquiring some or all of the collapsed off-licence group First Quench

A game for the highest stakes began this weekend after the Serious Fraud Office handed its QC the paperwork in its bribery case against BAE Systems

Tom Drury, 48, is chief executive of Shanks Group, one of the largest waste operators in Europe, with businesses in the Netherlands and Belgium as well as the UK

Banks are beginning to reopen for business for big wind farm projects after Centrica secured a £340m loan to help build a site off the Lincolnshire coast

The Mail on Sunday's share-tipping column sees Topps Tiles relying on friendly staff to bring better times and updates on H&T

A new era of competition among the banks? A fairer deal for their customers? Dream on

It should be the best possible news - figures show the US economy emerging from recession, growing at an annualised rate of 3.5%. But no