Asia is home to the world’s freest _ and most repressed _ economies, but Europe ranked highest as a region in terms of economic freedom, an annual report released Tuesday by the Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal said.While the world as a whole..

Negotiations stretched into early Monday between striking Broadway stagehands and theater producers struggling to find a solution to their thorny, seemingly intractable labor dispute as theaters faced a third week of dark stages and mounting box-office...

Striking stagehands and theater producers agreed to return to the bargaining table almost a week after negotiations collapsed and kept most of Broadway dark during the lucrative Thanksgiving week _ the second full week of no performances.The plans to...

Curtain up for the “Grinch.” Twenty-six more shows to go. Performances resume at 11 a.m. Friday after a Manhattan judge ordered the reopening of “Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas!” despite the ongoing Broadway stagehands strike that has...

Broadway faces a gloomy Thanksgiving after the collapse of talks between stagehands and theater producers with more than two dozen shows now canceled through the end of the lucrative holiday week.Negotiations broke down Sunday after a weekend of marathon.

Could the Broadway work stoppage spread to touring companies of major musical hits such as “Wicked” or “Jersey Boys”?No one, not the union nor the producers, is talking on the record about what might be the next step in Local 1’s battle with the...

With most of Broadway dark because of the stagehands strike, business is booming off-Broadway, especially for those theaters in the Times Square area.No new negotiations have been scheduled between Local 1, the stagehands union, and the League of...

Broadway stagehands went on strike Saturday, shutting down more than two dozen plays and musicals on what is the most popular theatergoing day of the week.Picket lines went up at theaters throughout the Times Square area. The first show to be affected...

Libya _ a former pariah state condemned by the U.S. as a sponsor of terrorism _ won a seat on the U.N. Security Council Tuesday without opposition from the Bush administration.The U.S. decision not to support a rival African country for the seat angered..

It’s Croatia vs. the Czech Republic and Costa Rica vs. the Dominican Republic in this year’s battle for seats on the powerful U.N. Security Council.But Libya _ who in some quarters is viewed as the most controversial candidate _ is virtually assured of...