Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives looked on course Friday for a surprise victory in Britain’s general election that could herald more economic austerity and redefine the country’s future in Europe. Exit polls upended pre-election forecasts of a knife-edge contest between the Conservatives and Labour, and also pointed to a landslide for Scottish nationalists that will reopen the question of Scotland breaking away from the United Kingdom. The pound rallied on currency markets as the poll commissioned by Britain’s national b...

Hardly any country in the world hosts as many companies accused of severe human rights violations as Germany, according to a recent survey by the University of Maastricht. EurActiv Germany reports. Of 1,800 human rights violations analysed by the University of Maastricht, 87 can be traced to German companies. This places Germany in fifth position, according to the number of such cases, behind the United States (511 cases reported), the United Kingdom (198), Canada (110) and China (94). The list of potential human rights violations ...

Dozens of migrants are feared to have drowned Sunday after falling from a boat into the Mediterranean Sea, the aid organization Save the Children said Tuesday. [caption id="attachment_15672" align="alignleft" width="300"] Italy reports more than 5,800 migrants were rescued off the Libyan coast over the weekend Photo : AFP[/caption] The report is one of many describing migrants dying at sea. Thousands of people are leaving North Africa every month aboard crowded vessels to escape desperate conditions and reach...