A plunge in Facebook's stock didn't faze the broader U.S. market Monday. U.S. stocks bounced back from their worst week of the year on renewed optimism that European leaders would find a way out of the sovereign debt crisis.
CNNMoney: Stocks set to reboundupdated: Mon May 21 2012 08:32:00
U.S. stocks were poised to rebound Monday, after closing out one of the worst weeks of the year, as investors pinned their hopes on European leaders' abilities to manage the continent's debt crisis.
President Barack Obama and fellow leaders at the Group of Eight meeting he hosted Saturday put job creation and economic growth at the top of their to-do list.
President Obama welcomes G8 leaders to summit at Camp David.
Military aircraft intercepted two small civilian planes Friday in the vicinity of Camp David, Maryland, where the Group of Eight is holding a summit, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said Saturday.
U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders are set to address a host of pressing economic and military security issues this weekend as the United States hosts a high stakes Group of Eight summit outside Washington and a NATO summit in Obama's adopted hometown of Chicago.
The campaign to feed the world's poor will get some much needed star power Friday when Bono, co-founder of the global advocacy organization ONE, arrives to rally leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized nations to take action.
A new report finds millions of seniors, a majority of them women, are going hungry. CNN's Barbara Starr reports.
When the White House, back in March, made the unexpected announcement that this month's G-8 summit, long planned to take place in Chicago, was being moved to Camp David, the reasons given were bland:
President Barack Obama has invited four African leaders to join food security talks at the annual G8 summit this month.
Syrians poured into the streets after Friday prayers, chanting and raising opposition flags in a major test of a fragile cease-fire implemented a day earlier to end a bloody government crackdown.
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President Obama speaks about the progress made at the G20 meetings in a joint interview with French President Sarkozy.
Late last week, the leaders and finance ministers of the 20 biggest economies, the G-20, met in Cannes for their annual media extravaganza.
Leaders at the Group of Eight summit in France expressed their support for democracy activists in the Middle East and North Africa on Friday but stopped short of pledging money to support them.
You've heard of the G8, the G-20, and maybe even the G5, but what are they? CNN's Michael Holmes explains it to you.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has joined American and other European leaders in calling for Moammar Gadhafi to step down from power, a shift that appears to indicate a closing diplomatic window for the longtime Libyan strongman.
The United States confirms it is providing munitions to "allies and partners" in Libya. CNN's Nima Elbagir reports.
The French first lady sports maternity wear to a G8 luncheon in France
An anti-G8 demonstration gets under way in France. CNN's Ivan Watson reports from the streets of Le Havre.
Several thousand demonstrators marched through this industrial port city in a mostly peaceful protest against an upcoming summit of the world's group of eight wealthiest countries.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto at a G-8 meeting in Paris on Tuesday as Japan struggles with aftermath of earthquake and tsunami.
Rebels appeared Monday to have slowed the eastward advance of Libyan government forces toward Benghazi at the town of al-Brega.
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North Korean officials are criticizing the U.S. for bringing heavy weapons into a border village in the demilitarized zone that divides the Korean peninsula, state media reported Monday.
The Group of Eight rich nations focused on recovery from a global economic crisis in their two-day summit but made note of other thorny issues in their final statement issued Saturday.
Protesters at the G-20 Summit set two police car ablaze during demonstrations in downtown Toronto, Canada.
Police said they were preparing for more disruptions Sunday after groups of protesters burned cars, hurled bricks and smashed windows as they tried to penetrate the fence surrounding the G-20 summit.
World leaders gather to discuss, among other things, global financial reform, but is the $1 billion price tag worth it?
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The leaders of the Group of Eight world economic powers have taken the first steps toward a "broad consensus" on the need to balance growth with shrinking deficits, a senior White House official said Friday.
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Describing himself as the "new kid on the block," British Prime Minister David Cameron said this weekend's G8 and G-20 summits in Canada should be about "more than big talk."
Canadian police arrest a 53-year-old man near the site of the G-20 summit. CNN's Jeanne Meserve reports.
The spotlight is on security -- as well as economic recovery plans -- as leaders from the world's biggest economies gather in Toronto for a pair of summits this weekend.
Pope Benedict XVI, on the eve of a global economic summit, lashed out at modern capitalism for being shortsighted and short on ethics.
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