In health care and travel both, the complexity of modern life is generating new kinds of service jobs. Expect more demand for such jobs as life gets less and less simple.

Americans are not “for” or “against” so much as “supportive, but deeply skeptical.”

If they do, the consequences could be profound, impacting oil prices and perhaps drawing Pakistan into the fray.

Leaked texts appear to show that a Russian loan to French far-right party the Front National may have been a quid pro quo for supporting the annexation of Crimea. The scandal doesn’t bode well for Marine Le Pen’s otherwise strong prospects in France’s 2017 election.

French MPs pass a law banning fashion models from being too skinny. Good thing all of the world’s other problems have been solved.

Zhou Yongkang, the biggest “tiger” ever to be snared by Xi’s massive party purge was formally charged. Xi continues on his quest to become China’s most powerful ruler since Mao.

Texas was riding high on shale, but the oil price plunge is producing some worrying numbers in the Lone Star state.

Berlin moved against fracking this week, but its renewables won’t save it from Gazprom.

Unions in Rhode Island have swallowed a pension reform plan after the state tweaked some of its provisions in a settlement. That’s a win for the state’s Democratic governor.

Russia produced more oil last month than it has at any point during the post-Soviet era.