05.25.201220:15 ET

BONN, Germany (AP) — Another round of U.N. climate talks closed without resolving how to share the burden of curbing man-made global warming, mainly because countries don't agree on who is rich and who is poor.

05.25.201220:12 ET

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — As Greece creaks under its untenable debt and a shrinking economy, the possibility that it could stop using the euro is becoming increasingly likely. The effects of such a move would be as quick as they would be brutal for ordinary Greeks, who would essentially take a 50-percent pay cut just as prices soar.

05.25.201220:07 ET

MADRID (AP) — Spain's troubled bank, Bankia, has asked the Spanish government for €19 billion ($23.8 billion) in financial support just as a leading credit rating agency downgraded it to junk status.

05.25.201217:38 ET

NEW YORK (AP) — Profits at big U.S. companies broke records last year, and so did pay for CEOs.

05.26.201203:26 ET

ROME (AP) — They twirled, they sniffed, they slurped, they chewed.

05.25.201206:04 ET

In the small world of big CEOs, the perks can be spectacular.

05.25.201210:52 ET

WASHINGTON (AP) — David Simon of Simon Property received a pay package worth more than $137 million for last year, and the typical CEO took home $9.6 million, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.

05.25.201213:04 ET

NEW YORK (AP) — Apple CEO Tim Cook is giving up $75 million in dividends on restricted stock that the company is awarding to all of its employees.

05.25.201220:04 ET

NEW YORK (AP) — The botched offering of Facebook stock has raised several troubling questions, but at least we don't have to worry about the one that plagues many IPOs: How are a few select investors able to buy in early at lower prices and then pocket huge profits when the trading frenzy begins?