Europe

Reports: Russian denies Pussy Riot ties to murders
A university instructor on Friday confessed to killing two women in an apartment where a message demanding freedom for jailed members of the Pussy ...
No Syrian peace in sight as Annan exits as envoy
Kofi Annan's time as a would-be peacemaker among Syria's warring parties is over, and he quietly exited the role Friday having failed to end the ...
Button still hopeful of catching teammate Hamilton
Jenson Button will not sacrifice his own ambitions to help Lewis Hamilton for the rest of the Formula One season, even though his McLaren teammate is ...
'At Any Price' transports lush Iowa to Venice
Director Ramin Bahrani's new film "At Any Price" functions on two levels: a drama about a family farm's future set among Iowa's lush cornfields or a ...
US fans take over Dublin for Navy-Notre Dame game
Saturday's game in Dublin between Navy and Notre Dame has brought an estimated 35,000 Americans to the Irish capital for a road game like no other, ...
Armenia cuts diplomatic ties with Hungary
Armenia's president says his country is cutting diplomatic ties with Hungary after the release of an Azerbaijani military officer convicted of hacking ...
Cummings wins 13th Vuelta stage
Stephen Cummings won the 13th stage of the Spanish Vuelta on Friday, and Joaquin Rodriguez maintained his overall advantage, ahead of a weekend of ...
Swiss police arrest ex-police boss of Guatemala
A former director of Guatemala's national police force who now has Swiss citizenship has been arrested on charges of involvement in extrajudicial ...
French 'Elvis' leaves Caribbean hospital for US
French singer Johnny Hallyday is out of a Caribbean hospital and on his way to Los Angeles. The 69-year-old performer whose glittery rock shows have ...
Czech police break up gang of passport forgers
Czech police say they have broken up an international gang suspected of producing forged passports, identity cards and driving licenses and supplying ...
Czech hops harvest plummets due to bad weather
Fear not, beer lovers! Although the Czech hops harvest is expected to plummet by around a quarter this year due to bad weather, there's still plenty ...
Lufthansa cancels flights as cabin crews strike
Lufthansa flight attendants walked off the job for eight hours Friday at Frankfurt airport, Germany's biggest, causing the cancellation of more than ...
Bosnia considering plea to help combat wildfires
The deputy security minister says Bosnia is considering asking for international help to combat wildfires amid one of the hottest and driest summers ...
Italy's Berlusconi hurts shoulder, wrist in tumble
Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian premier, has taken a tumble at his villa along Sardinia's posh Emerald Coast, injuring a shoulder and a wrist, ...
Greek police unionists protest planned pay cuts
Dozens of uniformed police officers have protested peacefully outside Greece's Parliament against pay cuts that are planned under the government's new ...
Eurozone jobless rate stuck at record high in July
The unemployment rate across the 17 countries that use the euro remained at a record high of 11.3 percent in July, official figures showed Friday, ...
Van Gaal drops Van der Vaart from Dutch squad
Coach Louis van Gaal on Friday dropped veteran midfielder Rafael van der Vaart from the Netherlands squad to play Turkey and Hungary in its opening ...
ECB's Coeure: Bond buys will come with conditions
Countries should have to make formal requests and agree to strict conditions before the European Central Bank buys their bonds to drive down their ...
1966 Indian plane wreckage found in Alpine glacier
As the Alpine glacier melted, a curious discovery emerged after decades beneath the ice: a plane wheel, a shoe — and an intact pouch of Indian ...
Report: Russian fired over Red Square landing dies
Sergei Sokolov, the Soviet defense minister fired by the Politburo after a German teenager landed his plane on Moscow's Red Square in the 1980s, died ...
Merkel to visit Spain, Austria next week
The German government says Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit Spain and Austria next week in the latest round of eurozone crisis diplomacy.
Dutch populist leader takes aim at EU _ and flops
With his mane of platinum-blond hair, Geert Wilders rose to prominence by hammering away at a hardcore anti-Islam message. Now, as the Netherlands ...
Report: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, wife split up
The wife of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has acknowledged in a newspaper interview that the two have separated, and says she's been doing ...
Pirates free Greek tanker off West Africa
Greece says pirates have freed a Greek-owned oil tanker seized off the coast of Togo in West Africa, and all 24 crew members are in good health.
UN sees rise in Syrian refugee flow to Lebanon
The U.N. refugee agency says it is seeing a growing number of Syrians fleeing to Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley, near the Syrian border.