Europe

Gay attack victim in France becomes cause celebre
The shocking photo of a homophobic attack victim in Paris that went viral on social media this week and caused the French interior minister to weigh ...
Wrong turn leads Germans from home town to Austria
Instead of a five-minute trip home, a wrong turn led to an all-night drive for a pair of Germans that ended when police stopped their car in far-away ...
Police, immigrants clash at Greek detention center
Police and detainees clashed Wednesday at a former military base in southern Greece where foreign nationals suspected of violating immigration laws ...
Putin on Finland's criminal blacklist by 'mistake'
Vladimir Putin, banned in Finland? Finnish police say the Russian president's name was mistakenly placed on a secret criminal register that could ...
Afghan soldier fires at Lithuanian troops
Lithuania's Defense Ministry says that two soldiers taking part in the NATO-led coalition were injured in an attack by an Afghan soldier. Capt.
France names new spymaster
President Francois Hollande has appointed French ambassador to Afghanistan Bernard Bajolet as the new head of France's main spy agency.
Judge fines Costa $1.3M for Concordia wreck
A judge in Tuscany fined Italian cruise line Costa Crociere SpA 1 million euros ($1.3 million) Wednesday for the 2012 shipwreck of the Concordia ...
2 plead guilty to UK terror plot
Two men accused of planning an al-Qaida-inspired terrorist attack intended to be bigger than the 2005 London transit bombings have pleaded guilty in ...
Serbia mourns 13 killed in shooting rampage
Serbia held a national day of mourning Wednesday as police searched for possible motives in the Balkan nation's worst peacetime shooting massacre, ...
Mother suspected of killing 3 newborns in Poland
Prosecutors in northern Poland on Wednesday were questioning a woman suspected of killing her three newborn boys whose bodies were found in the ...
Neo-Nazis established network inside German jails
German authorities say they are tightening security measures after discovering a neo-Nazi network inside the country's prisons. The network, which was ...
Mexico investigates officials in Frenchwoman case
Mexico's prosecutor for human rights says it has begun investigating former high-ranking law enforcement officials who were involved in the case of ...
Amnesty: Progress in ending global death penalty
Iraq executed almost twice as many people last year compared to the year before, while India and Pakistan resumed executions after abandoning the ...
Rockefeller impostor murder case goes to jury
A murder case against a notorious Rockefeller impostor was turned over to a Los Angeles jury on Tuesday after the prosecutor implored the panel to ...
Man kills 13 people in Serbian shooting rampage
He went from house to house in the village at dawn, cold-bloodedly gunning down his mother, his son, a 2-year-old cousin and 10 other neighbors.
Protesters accuse Putin of murdering Polish leader
About 200 Poles chanted accusations against Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, accusing the Russian leader of murdering their own President Lech Kaczynski in ...
UN chief: Korea tensions may spiral uncontrollably
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warned Tuesday that even a slight miscalculation on the Korean peninsula could spiral into an "uncontrollable ...
Albania to put trash import plan to referendum
Albania pledged Tuesday to hold a historic referendum on whether to scrap waste imports, a money-making program strongly opposed by environmentalists ...
Austria: Ex-priest charged in 15 child abuse cases
Austrian authorities have charged a defrocked priest with sexually abusing 15 children as head of a Catholic boarding school. They say Alfons August ...
German ex-president rejects deal to end case
Germany's former president spurned a deal Tuesday to drop legal proceedings against him in a scandal over alleged favors that prompted his resignation ...
UN chief urges Syria to OK expanded chemical probe
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon is urging the Syrian government to accept an expanded U.N. probe into alleged chemical weapons use, saying he has ...
Dutch prosecutors want 15 years for alleged spy
Dutch prosecutors say they will seek a 15-year sentence in the case of a Dutch diplomat accused of delivering state secrets to Russian agents.
Danish teachers in 35-kilometer protest
Thousands of Danish teachers have formed a 35-kilometer (20-mile) line between two cities to protest a weeklong lockout by local municipalities.
Putin faces protest furor in Germany, Netherlands
Vladimir Putin faced hundreds of protesters ranging from gay rights activists to a topless feminist group during his visit to Germany and the ...
Russian opposition leader: Putin ordered trial
One of Russia's most prominent opposition leaders claims that President Vladimir Putin has "undoubtedly" ordered an embezzlement trial against him.