Two environmental groups say EU nations continue to overfish Atlantic waters, despite commitments to fish sustainably and stay within safe scientific limits.

Barack Obama has announced plans to create the largest ocean preserve in the world by banning drilling, fishing and other activities in a massive stretch of the Pacific Ocean in a move to protect fragile marine life.

The French and Germans are divided in their attitudes toward their leaders and their economic futures, writes Frederick Kempe

Fishermen will be obliged to land almost all fish they catch from next January, whether they have a quota for them or not under a plan brokered by Marine Minister Simon Coveney.

Mitt Romney is pressing to refocus the Republican presidential race on jobs and the economy in the sprint to Super Tuesday’s contests next week, looking to blunt Rick Santorum’s efforts to sow doubts about his record on social issues.

TEA PARTY conservatives scored their biggest political triumph with a debt-ceiling deal that cuts federal spending, but their tactics could risk a voter backlash in the 2012 elections.

Attitudes about Muslim-Western relations have become slightly more positive in the United States, Britain, France, Germany and Russia compared with five years ago, but negative views persist on both sides, a survey said.

A THIRD of EU subsidies for the fishing industry over the past 12 years went to building bigger fishing vessels while another third went to scrapping fleet, a new website on where the money goes has revealed.

THE popularity gap between Barack Obama and John McCain has doubled from 7% earlier this month to 14%, according to the Pew Research Centre’s latest voters poll.

Americans have growing doubts about President George W Bush’s honesty and his effectiveness, according to a poll.

New research suggests Americans are less inundated by unsolicited emails than often thought.