Mr. Havel was one of a pair of unlikely Czech immigrants to Ireland who together revived the Waterford glass industry after a century’s dormancy.

Agriprocessors, a kosher meat producer, is trying to persuade the Supreme Court to rule that illegal immigrants do not have the right to join labor unions.

Sudan is capitalizing on high global food prices at a time when millions there barely have enough to eat.

Sudan is capitalizing on high global food prices at a time when millions of people in its Darfur region barely have enough to eat.

About 1,000 people in Postville, Iowa, on Sunday demonstrated at the entrance to a kosher meatpacking plant that was raided in May by immigration authorities.

Following a raid at an Iowa meatpacking plant, immigrants have described pervasive labor violations that experts say could result in criminal charges.

Businesses are proposing alternatives to laws with harsh punishments for hiring illegal immigrants, reopening a rift in the Republican Party.

Hundreds of illegal immigrants were rounded up in May at the kosher meatpacking plant in Iowa, and the two supervisors were arrested on criminal immigration charges.

Christina A. Gold is the chief executive of the Western Union Company.

Engineering skill made Japan an economic superpower, but its young people are now choosing other careers.