Mario Monti is attempting to safeguard his economic legacy by standing at the head of a centrist alliance in national elections scheduled for February 24-25
BP is facing multi-district litigation in a civil trial in New Orleans to resolve damages and apportion blame for the Deepwater Horizon disaster of April 20 2010
Europe-wide supply chains are likely to come under closer scrutiny after the discovery of widespread adulteration of beef-labelled processed food products on supermarket shelves
The problems in the bloc rumble on as electorates vote against austerity, forcing policymakers to consider measures that will stimulate growth and offset the harsher effects of deficit reduction policies
Nat Rothschild has pledged to soldier on with his campaign to change the board of the Indonesian miner he helped create after shareholders voted resoundingly to rebuff his proposals
David Cameron is under pressure from all sides and faces a delicate balancing act in attempting to renegotiate an acceptable UK membership settlement with the EU
France has intervened militarily in Mali to rid the county of Islamist militants and prevent a growing terrorist threat to the region and wider western world
Voters go to the polls on March 4 in a presidential election increasingly overshadowed by fears of a reprise of the ethnic violence that broke out in the wake of the previous general election in late 2007