Nayib Bukele is favorite to win when voters head to the polls in El Salvador on Sunday to elect a new president they hope will lead them away from gang violence and widespread poverty. The 37-year-old former mayor of the capital San Salvador is hoping to usher in a new era after almost 30...

A major shake-up of Australia's massively profitable banking sector is on the cards as a landmark inquiry into abuses in the financial services industry releases its final report Monday. Sweeping legislative and regulatory changes, a crackdown on the bulging pay packets of bankers and even...

Germany’s phasing out of coal-fired power stations could be delayed beyond 2038 if the deadline creates problems for the security of electricity supply, a senior legislator in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party said. The phase-out, proposed last Saturday by a commission tasked with...

China on Saturday said it opposes the US decision to withdraw from a landmark Cold War nuclear missile treaty and urged Washington and Russia to hold "constructive" discussions. Moscow and Washington have long accused the other of violating the key Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces...