PARIS - Leaders of the 27 nations that comprise the European Union have opened a summit aimed at solving the bloc's debt crisis. The dinner summit in Brussels will be dominated by increasing calls for growth measures, the creation of jobs and stimulating the troubled eurozone economy, which has been hit with grim news. This week, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warned that the eurozone risked severe recession. The EU's focus has shifted ...

WHITE HOUSE - U.S. President Barack Obama says his administration has laid the foundation for a new era of American leadership in the world. The president Wednesday incorporated re-election campaign themes into a commencement speech at the U.S. Air Force Academy.   The president told more than 1,000 academy graduates at a football stadium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, that he believes the world has "a new feeling about America." "I see it everywhere I go, from ...