Greece warned Thursday it could turn to the IMF for help unless European leaders offered financial aid next week, as doubts over plans to rescue Athens from its debt crisis rocked the euro. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou urged the European Union to help a "family" member as the interest rate Athens pays to borrow money on the bond market ...

BRUSSELS/ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece raised the stakes on Thursday in its quest for EU help to tackle its debt crisis, saying it cannot achieve promised deficit cuts if its borrowing costs remain so high and may have to call in the IMF. But Athens dismissed a report that it was planning to turn to the global lender as soon as ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is not taking full account of the environmental impact of oil-based road transport fuels, which could undermine the bloc's renewable energy goals, European biodiesel producers said on Thursday. The EU uses greenhouse gas emissions from fossil-based road fuels as a basis for calculating the climate benefits of crop-based biofuels. But biodiesel producers argue the ...

Norway's Opera said Thursday that downloads of its browser more than doubled after Microsoft Corp. was forced to give European users a choice of Web software to settle European Union antitrust charges. Microsoft started sending updates to Windows computers in Europe in early March that ...