A spokesman for Nigeria's finance ministry said the mother of Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was released Friday morning.

New Cabinet is named after boycotted parliamentary elections; refuses to give into opposition's demands.

Cyprus' finance minister is urging lawmakers to approve a raft of spending cuts and tax hikes agreed with international creditors.

Zynga's finance chief is leaving the troubled online game company to join Facebook.

Finance ministers and central bank governors from the world's leading economies met in Mexico amid growing fears over the global impact of Europe's debt crisis and the stalemate over a fiscal plan in the United States.

Vote on a privatization bill will be a major test for its fractious coalition.

Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble says that a debt buyback program–under which Greece would get loans that would allow it to pay off debts–might be possible.