Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis headed for a showdown with euro zone finance ministers on Wednesday after his new leftist-led government won a parliamentary confidence vote for its refusal to extend an international bailout.

• February 10, 2015

The European Union delayed putting more Ukrainian separatists and Russians on its sanctions list on Monday to give a Franco-German peace plan for Ukraine time to work.

• February 9, 2015

U.S. stocks pared their losses on Monday as investors took increased tensions over Greek debt negotiations and disappointing Chinese economic data in stride, helped by a rise in oil prices that boosted energy stocks.

• February 9, 2015

Greece will not face any cash crunch while negotiations with its euro zone partners on a new program to roll back austerity take place, its deputy finance minister said on Saturday.

• February 7, 2015

Germany's Angela Merkel warned on Saturday that sending arms to help Ukraine fight pro-Russian separatists would not solve the crisis there, drawing a sharp rebuke from a leading U.S. senator who accused Berlin of turning its back on an ally in distress.

• February 7, 2015

Rosneft is raising money from Swiss trader Trafigura days before it must repay a $7 billion debt, industry sources said, seeking new funding options after the Russian central bank said its borrowing via the domestic bond market had added to pressure on the struggling rouble.

• February 4, 2015

BP said it would deepen capital investment cuts this year to adapt to lower oil prices after a surprise contribution from its stake in Russia's firm Rosneft helped it to beat quarterly profit forecasts.

• February 3, 2015

Stock markets rallied around the world on Tuesday while the U.S. dollar fell after the new Greek government dropped calls for a write-down of its foreign debt, easing concerns about growing instability in the euro zone.

• February 3, 2015