World financial leaders have promised “bold and ambitious” action to boost a global recovery that has shown recent disturbing signs of weakness.

The presidents of three Ebola-stricken West African nations have sought an immediate outpouring of money, doctors and hospital beds as representatives of nations gathered at a World Bank meeting promised to send more aid.

You might be forgiven for thinking that Finance Minister Michael Noonan is the most important man in your life this week.

China has said it is time for the world economy to be "de-Americanised", in response to the ongoing US debt-ceiling crisis.

US Senate leaders have taken the helm in the search for a deal to end the partial government shutdown and avert a federal default.

George Soros, the 83-year-old billionaire investor, philanthropist and active supporter of liberal political causes, married health care and education consultant Tamiko Bolton at the weekend.

The World Bank says developing nations are in in a fragile economic recovery, but could get knocked off track by problems in rich countries.

The World Bank yesterday said it stood ready to help governments respond to a rise in grain prices that has again put the world’s poorest people at risk and could have detrimental impacts for years.

American Jim Yong Kim has been chosen to be the next president of the World Bank.

U2 STAR Bono has been named along with people like US president George Bush, Pope Benedict, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and computer supremo Bill Gates as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.