LONDON — The managing director of the International Monetary Fund says she has more sympathy for poor African children than Greeks suffering under the country's economic problems and austerity measures.Read more

ROME — They twirled, they sniffed, they slurped, they chewed.Read more

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ATHENS, Greece — As Greece creaks under its untenable debt and a shrinking economy, the possibility that it could stop using the euro is becoming increasingly likely. The effects of such a move would be as quick as they would be brutal for ordinary Greeks, who would essentially take a 50-percent pay cut just as prices soar.Read more

NEW YORK — The botched offering of Facebook stock has raised several troubling questions, but at least we don't have to worry about the one that plagues many IPOs: How are a few select investors able to buy in early at lower prices and then pocket huge profits when the trading frenzy begins?Read more

WASHINGTON — Barbara Kydd Graves, the wife of the publisher of Black Enterprise Magazine who aided in the growth of the publication and media company, died Friday.Read more

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NEW YORK — As American Airlines made its final stand Friday in U.S. bankruptcy court, the judge finished the lengthy hearing on a surprising note by telling the courtroom that the airline and its unions need to work toward a deal.Read more

MORE GAINS: Meat prices are expected to rise faster than overall food costs in 2012. Prices rose in the spring and may increase an additional 1 percent to 3 percent this summer.Read more

WASHINGTON — A better hiring outlook and lower gas prices pushed a measure of U.S. consumer confidence to its highest level in four and a half years.Read more

NEW YORK — Activist investor Carl Icahn has taken a sizable stake in Chesapeake Energy Corp. and is calling for at least four of company's directors to be replaced.Read more

Wheat prices rose 2.6 percent Friday as questions persisted about how much dry weather has affected the crop in Kansas.Read more