The number of New York City public school students who lived in homeless shelters for at least part of the last school year rose by more than 4,000 from the previous year
The family of a New York City firefighter who died after falling five stories while battling a blaze in Queens last week has the support of the city and a charity in helping to pay its debts
The EU's competition watchdog says investigators have launched surprise inspections at a number of Swedish mobile telecoms companies amid concerns over a possible cartel
Following years of budget restraint, particularly in Greece, government borrowing across the 19-country eurozone has fallen to its lowest level since before the most acute phase of the global financial crisis
EU auditors are warning that migrant centers set up in Greece and Italy to fast-track migrant registrations are overwhelmed
Outdoors retailer L.L. Bean says a systems upgrade is causing shipping delays
Nepal has made scant progress in rebuilding homes and lives shattered 2 years ago by a devastating earthquake
Novartis says net income fell 15 percent in the first quarter, as the Swiss pharmaceuticals group continued to adjust to generic competition for its Gleevec leukemia drug and stopped work on a hoped-for heart-failure treatment
Europe's strengthening economic recovery dodged a big fat banana peel when a pro-EU candidate won the first round of the French presidential election
Ivanka Trump is in Berlin on her first international outing as a White House adviser, where she will join German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss ways to encourage women's economic empowerment
Officials say dozens of teens robbed and assaulted passengers on a regional transit train in Oakland over the weekend in an apparently orchestrated attack
Shares are higher in Europe and Asia, as the rally sparked by the outcome of France's vote persists
South Africa rioters kill truckload of newly hatched chicks, killing 38,000 birds
'Hungrier than ever:' Smugglers become a lifeline for the starving in South Sudan
After a storm of ethics criticism, the U.S. State Department has removed its promotional posting about President Donald Trump's Florida resort