Six directors of Spanish La Liga champions Barcelona have quit in the latest turmoil within the club hierarchy that fans and players including Lionel Messi are increasingly frustrated at. The board members' protest deepened chaos at the world's richest club, hit by plunging revenues from...

Criminal organizations in Italy are distributing food and ordering interest-free lending to the needy to try to extend their influence, Italian anti-mafia author Roberto Saviano has warned. Italy's mafia groups are also poised to snatch up struggling businesses as the country -- which is in...

The huge cost of the coronavirus pandemic is upending Japan's seven-year experiment to rescue the economy from its debt timebomb, as recession fears prompt calls for "helicopter money" - unlimited spending bankrolled by the central bank. Days after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launched a...

 A proposed reduction in oil production by OPEC and other oil-producing countries including Russia involves a 10 million barrels per day cut until July, then an 8 million barrels per day cut through the end of the year, Saudi Arabia said Friday as the deal hung in the balance. OPEC and...