Europe

2 French fighters detained in Mali
France's defense minister says two French citizens fighting alongside extremists have been detained over the past week in the West African country of ...
Cardinal Scherer: Modern ways, traditional message
Cardinal Odilo Scherer is known for prolific tweeting, appearances on Brazil's most popular late-night talk show and squeezing into the subway for ...
UK jury convicts Huhne's ex-wife in speeding case
The ex-wife of a former U.K. Cabinet minister was convicted on Thursday of perverting the course of justice for taking her husband's speeding penalty ...
Report: Turk refused gym membership in Austria
Politicians are urging the chamber of commerce in a western Austrian province to investigate complaints from a young man with Turkish roots that he ...
Berlusconi convicted in wiretap case
Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was convicted Thursday over the illegal publication in a newspaper owned by his media empire of wiretapped ...
Cyprus trial of Hezbollah member wraps up
The trial of a Hezbollah member accused of preparing attacks on Israelis in Cyprus concluded on Thursday with final summations submitted to the court ...
Dutch peacekeeper not prosecuted for Srebrenica
The retired general who commanded Dutch peacekeepers in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica when Bosnian Serb fighters overran the town and massacred ...
Sri Lanka cardinal hews to tradition in papal race
In one of his first appointments as pope, Benedict XVI picked a Sri Lankan archbishop to return to the Vatican for a top post overseeing the church's ...
Swiss right-wing leader Giuliano Bignasca dies
Giuliano Bignasca, the leader of a right-wing nationalist party in Switzerland who once advocated building a 13-foot (4-meter) wall between ...
Cardinals impose media blackout ahead of conclave
In the end, American-style transparency was no match for the Vatican's obsession with secrecy. Cardinals attending closed-door discussions ahead of ...
Police: Real IRA member killed outside Irish pub
Police say a member of an Irish Republican Army splinter group involved in a bloody feud with Dublin drug dealers has been killed in an ambush outside ...
Armenia: Ex-candidate held in shooting of rival
Vardan Sedrakian, a former Armenian presidential contender, has been arrested in the shooting of another fringe candidate ahead of last month's ...
Hungarians ask rights group to help ethnic kin
The youth wing of Hungary's governing party is asking Amnesty International to investigate recent attacks against ethnic Hungarians in Serbia.
French soldier, about 10 rebels die in Mali clash
French and Malian forces moving into far eastern Mali clashed with jihadist fighters in a spontaneous gunbattle on Wednesday, leaving a French soldier ...
German journalist recalls being held in Syria
A German freelance journalist illegally inside Syria wondered why passing motorists kept making hand gestures. Moments later he realized why.
NYC cannibal-plot case now in jury's hands
A New York City jury that's been presented with talk and images, staged or not, of women being cooked alive, sex with dead people and human-flesh ...
Sweden: vandalism of Jewish center not hate crime
Swedish authorities have dropped an investigation into the vandalism of a Jewish center in the southern city of Malmo, saying it was probably a ...
Fire breaks out at hospital holding Spain's king
Spain's royal palace says a small fire broke out at a Madrid hospital where King Juan Carlos is being treated but that the monarch is fine and does ...
Abuse victims ask cardinals be kept from conclave
Advocates for victims of clerical sex abuse in Chile, Mexico and Italy asked Tuesday for three cardinals to withdraw from the papal conclave, accusing ...
Police seize resorts in Italy said to be mob-owned
Police in Italy have arrested 20 people and seized some 17 seaside resorts along the southern coast in a crackdown on organized crime clans suspected ...
US prosecutors say German sought killer for wife
Prosecutors in the U.S. capital say a German man charged with killing his journalist wife tried to enlist a drug dealer to "do away with her.
Poland returns Yiddish writer's works to daughters
The daughters of a Yiddish writer persecuted under communism reclaimed copies of his works on Tuesday following a prolonged legal fight with a Polish ...
Gunmen abduct Bulgarian mobster's daughter, age 12
Three masked gunmen on Tuesday kidnapped the 12-year-old daughter of a Bulgarian mobster, an abduction that could be linked to drug trafficking ...
Russia marks 60th anniversary of Stalin's death
Devotees of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, whose brutal purges killed millions of innocent citizens and made his name a byword for totalitarian terror, ...
Conservative Canadian a top contender to be pope
Cardinal Marc Ouellet once said that being pope "would be a nightmare." He would know, having enjoyed the confidence of two popes as a top-ranked ...