From Paris in the eighteenth century to Saxony in the tenth, and from ancient Rome to even more ancient Greece, spanning centuries and continents, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's character, the Comte de Saint-Germain follows a sanguine trail of vampire adventures...

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much. At every stage, it has surprised. Hardly anyone saw it coming in mid-1997. Nor were its most dramatic developments, from Suharto's downfall to Russia's debt default, widely anticipated. So...

By John Gray Descriptions of the world as a planet fast unifying under the yoke of 'globalisation' have been common currency among journalists, economists, and cultural theorists for some time. False Dawn both queries the phenomenon's supposed homogeneous logic and is a...

Prime Minister Tony Blair met with the leaders of Northern Ireland's hard-line Protestant and Catholic parties Wednesday to press for the formation of a joint administration in the territory by a late March deadline.Ian Paisley, the Protestant leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, has refused...

Business confidence in Germany rose in November for the first time since April, a closely watched survey showed Tuesday — defying analyst expectations for Europe's largest economy.Separately, the government estimated Germany's annual inflation rose to 3 percent this month — its highest level in more...