Once a bus driver, Nicolás Maduro rose to power in Venezuela amid crisis and inherited an economy entirely dependent on oil.

During the Great Depression, unemployment rates soared to 25%, wiping out savings accounts and leaving millions destitute.

Mr Lecornu – the fifth prime minister in two years – was tasked with passing a restrained budget and bringing a sense of ...

Russia is teetering on the edge of economic collapse as a result of systematic Ukrainian strikes on oil refineries, a Russian propagandist has warned. Meanwhile, the leader of the puppet regime ...

In South Africa, the journalism industry is currently facing a crisis. This is being caused by declining advertising revenues, driven by the redirection of investment to large companies like Google ...

Though the Great Crash of 1929 preceded the Great Depression, weak banks and a shaky property market were bigger contributors ...

Sidoarjo, Indonesia — Indonesian rescue workers were racing against the clock Wednesday to try to find survivors from a school collapse in the province of East Java. At least 91 students were still ...