A growing chorus of world leaders pushed for a shift toward more pro-growth policies to help ease a European crisis that threatens to oust Greece from the euro zone and reverberate throughout the global economy.
President Barack Obama, standing before a line of flag-draped coffins, consoled family and friends at a memorial service for firefighters killed in a massive explosion last week at a Texas fertilizer plant.
Investigators have confirmed that ammonium nitrate was the trigger for the explosion at a West, Texas, fertilizer plant last month that left 14 people dead and some 200 injured, according to the Texas state fire marshal's office.