Chancellor Merkel has said she does "not see Islamization" in Germany in a challenge to claims made by far-right groups alleging German culture is being eroded by Muslims. In some of her strongest statements to date on the rapidly growing anti-Islam movement...

(Reuters) - Oil prices edged up in early Asian trading on Friday benefiting from positive technical price momentum, but analysts said it was too early for a trend reversal of steep recent price falls as structural oversupply remains in place. While the fundamental outlook for oil...

(Reuters) - Asian shares stepped back on Friday and major currencies  mostly stuck to late U.S. levels as investors caught their breath, after Switzerland's unexpected move to abandon its currency cap jolted markets already roiled by plungingcommodities prices. The euro...

(Reuters) - Belgian police killed two men who opened fire on them during one of about a dozen raids on Thursday against an Islamist group that federal prosecutors said was about to launch "terrorist attacks on a grand scale". Coming a week after Islamist gunmen killed 17 people in...