Top-seeded Venus Williams reached the quarterfinals of the Mexican Open, defeating Kaia Kanepi of Estonia 6-4, 6-4 on Wednesday night. Fernando Verdasco, the top seed on the men's side, advanced earlier in the day with a 6-4, 6-3 victory against Lukasz Kubot of Poland. Both second-seeded players also ...

Central and eastern European countries agreed Wednesday to set up a north-south-east gas supply system to ensure energy security in a region lacking its own resources. "We signed a common declaration that states that energy security is a highly important task for the signatory states," Hungary's Premier Gordon Bajnai told journalists after a meeting of regional officials. "We have ...

EU leaders and ministers will meet on Thursday in Budapest to discuss economic and environmental developments for the Danube region. The conference is part of Brussels' drive for an "EU Strategy for the Danube Region," conceived last year by the European Council and due to be adopted in March 2011, under Hungary's presidency of the bloc. Fourteen countries are ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Globalization, the economic recession and rising unemployment have increased job insecurity which is having a negative impact on the health of employees, European researchers said on Tuesday. In a study of more than 23,000 workers in 16 European countries, an international team of scientists found that the fear of losing a job significantly increased the ...