Europe

Naked gunman on Austrian streets, suspect nabbed
Austrian police say they have arrested a suspect after witnesses reported a naked man armed with a handgun strolling through a town's snow-covered ...
Spain video shows police saving woman from tracks
Closed-circuit television cameras have captured dramatic images of a Spanish police officer saving a woman from the subway tracks in the Madrid ...
Bulgarian defends decision to attack politician
A Bulgarian who tried to shoot a gas pistol at the leader of his country's ethnic Turkish political party testified Tuesday that his only regret is ...
Was that you? Foul odor wafts from France to UK
A foul-smelling cloud of gas escaped from a factory in northern France on Tuesday, making life unpleasant from the outskirts of Paris to Britain's ...
Rights group takes Italy to task over migrants
Human rights advocates are denouncing what they say is Italy's repeated practice of summarily sending back unaccompanied migrant children and adult ...
German cardinal 'ashamed' at rape victim treatment
A senior German bishop is publicly apologizing after two Catholic hospitals turned away a rape victim seeking treatment that included emergency ...
Berlin police say robber used fake Dutch ID card
Berlin police say a man suspected of brazenly tunneling into a city bank's safety deposit room used a fake Netherlands identity card to rent an ...
Trains collide in central Portugal, injuring 15
Emergency services say a high-speed intercity train rear-ended a local train waiting to enter a station in central Portugal, slightly injuring 21 ...
Russian protest against anti-gay law turns violent
Militant Orthodox activists have attacked members of Russia's embattled gay community protesting against a planned law banning "gay propaganda".
Mali crisis tests Franco-German friendship
Germany and France are issuing stamps, coins and literary awards to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a historic accord that cemented peaceful ...
Dead and missing from siege at Algerian gas plant
Here's the latest information from Algeria on the dead and missing after a bloody, four-day hostage siege at the country's remote Ain Amenas natural ...
French seize control of 2 key Mali towns
French troops in armored personnel carriers rolled through the streets of Diabaly on Monday, winning praise from residents of this besieged town after ...
French: Turkish suspect probed in Kurd killings
French prosecutors have filed preliminary murder and terrorism charges against a Turkish citizen who worked as a driver for one of three Kurdish ...
Official: Syrian stray bullet wounds man in Turkey
An official says a man in a Turkish border town was hit in the head by a stray bullet fired during clashes between Syrian rebels and Kurdish gunmen ...
Kremlin to start evacuation of Russians from Syria
The Russian government says it is sending two planes to Lebanon to evacuate Russians from Syria, the first such effort since the uprising against ...
Germany indicts suspected Islamist terrorist
German prosecutors have indicted a man on suspicion of being a member of al-Qaida and Somalia's al-Shabab terror group. Prosecutors say 24-year-old ...
Tymoshenko's lawyer faces legal action in Ukraine
The top lawyer for jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Monday he is under criminal investigation and fears imminent arrest.
Report: Turkish lawyers jailed for militant links
Turkey's state-run news agency says a court has charged nine lawyers, including prominent human rights defenders, with membership in an outlawed ...
Albanian opposition honors shot demonstrators
Some 3,000 supporters of Albania's main opposition Socialist Party have held a peaceful march to honor four people killed two years ago in an ...
Berlusconi sex-for-hire verdict after Italy vote
Judges hearing ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi's sex-for-hire trial on Monday pushed back the verdict and the sentencing in the case until after Italy's ...
German Patriot missiles systems reach Turkey
Germany's Patriot missile systems that will be deployed close to the Syrian border has arrived at a port in southern Turkey. Germany, the Netherlands ...
Slimane's experimentation at Saint Laurent debut
There was an air of the self-searching Seventies student in Hedi Slimane's debut menswear show at the rebranded Saint Laurent. Long, striped ...
Death toll climbs past 80 in siege in the Sahara
The death toll from the terrorist siege at a natural gas plant in the Sahara climbed to at least 81 on Sunday as Algerian forces searching the ...
Bomb explodes at Athens shopping mall, 2 wounded
A bomb exploded at a shopping mall in Athens on Sunday, slightly wounding two security guards and forcing the evacuation of about 200 people.
Algeria: 32 militants killed, with 23 hostages
In a bloody finale, Algerian special forces stormed a natural gas complex in the Sahara desert on Saturday to end a standoff with Islamist extremists ...