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SAN FRANCISCO, February 24, (THEWILL) - The people of Southern Nigeria have been called upon to rally round the President Goodluck Jonathan Administration. Making the call Monday at the Southern Leaders Summit held at the Tinapa Business and Leisure Resort...

Fugitive Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich, ousted after bloody street protests in which demonstrators were shot by police snipers, is wanted on an arrest warrant for mass murder, authorities announced on Monday. As rival neighbors east and west of the former...

Egypt's government has resigned, the prime minister said on Monday, paving the way for army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to declare his candidacy for president of a strategic U.S. ally gripped by political strife. "(The government) made every...

Victims of Jimmy Savile, the former BBC TV presenter who after his death was unmasked as one of Britain's most prolific sex offenders, said they were ignored or laughed at when they tried to report that he had abused...

Pope Francis has ordered a new Vatican department to be created to supervise all the tiny city state's economic and administrative affairs and will nominate an auditor to provide broad oversight, the Vatican said on Monday. The new department, set...

For more than two weeks while Russia hosted the Winter Olympics, President Vladimir Putin did his best to show the world that he and his country havea soft side. Now the Sochi Games are over, Western governments are concerned the...

European shares and the euro got a boost on Monday after German business morale unexpectedly rose in February, lifting investors out of a funk caused by a fall in Chinese home prices. In Ukraine, where Moscow-backed Viktor Yanukovich was ousted...

Euro zone consumer prices fell in January at their fastest ever pace on a monthly basis, dragged down by a slump in the cost of non-energy industrial goods, keeping annual inflation well below the European Central Bank's target. Inflation rate...

Nokia, soon to be acquired by Microsoft Corp, is turning to software created by arch-rival Google for a new line of phones it hopes will make it a late contender in the dynamic low-cost smartphone market. Its first models, Nokia...

Honda Motor Co (7267.T) named the first foreigner and first female to its all-Japanese, all-male roster of board members and operating officers on Monday, helping it catch up with rival Japanese carmakers in diversifying its executive ranks. Japan's third-biggest car...