Europe

Judge: Strauss-Kahn, NYC hotel maid settle suit
Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a hotel maid settled her lawsuit Monday over sexual assault allegations that sank ...
British firm agrees to plead guilty in Iraq case
A British contractor has agreed to plead guilty to wire fraud conspiracy in a deal to supply vehicles to Iraqi police during U.S.-led reconstruction ...
Small earthquake rattles Russia's Sochi region
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.8 hit Russia on Monday along the Black Sea coast to the north of Sochi, the city preparing to hold the 2014 Winter ...
Hungarian students protest scholarship cuts
Hundreds of Hungarian university students are marching in Budapest to demand more funding for higher education and to protest government plans to ...
UK police arrest 6th person in sex abuse probe
British police on Monday arrested another suspect in the sex abuse probe spurred by allegations against the late BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile.
US settles suit alleging UK bank money laundering
Standard Chartered Bank has agreed to pay $327 million to settle federal and New York charges it laundered money on behalf of four countries that were ...
Dutchman launches life-sized replica of Noah's Ark
Just as the first storms of winter roll in, Dutchman Johan Huibers has finished his 20-year quest to build a full-scale, functioning model of Noah's ...
European Union receives Nobel Peace Prize
The EU received the Nobel Peace Prize on Monday for promoting peace and human rights in Europe following the devastation of World War II, and the bloc ...
Bosnian Serb police ban Human Rights march
Activists say Bosnian Serb police have banned a march by war survivors to mark International Human Rights Day in Prijedor, where thousands of ...
Taliban to attend Paris meeting on Afghanistan
The Taliban will attend a meeting in France to talk about Afghanistan's future but will not discuss peace and reconciliation, the militant group's ...
Russia ceases use of radar station in Azerbaijan
Russia has ceased using an early-warning radar station based in neighboring Azerbaijan after the two countries failed to reach an agreement on ...
Kosovo, Serbia begin implementing border deal
Kosovo and Serbia started to implement an EU-brokered deal to jointly check goods and travelers at crossing points on Monday, a crucial step for the ...
Azeri police break up rally on Human Rights Day
An opposition spokesman in Azerbaijan says police have detained dozens of people attempting to hold a rally demanding the right to freedom of assembly ...
British spy denies sex assault on colleague
A British spy has appeared in court to deny charges of sexually assaulting and beating a colleague at the MI5 intelligence service. Neither the ...
NYC suit against Strauss-Kahn could end in deal
The outcome of a New York City hotel housekeeper's sexual assault lawsuit against former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn may ...
German minister makes brief stop in Gaza Strip
Germany's development minister has made a brief visit to the Gaza Strip to inaugurate a sewage plant in the territory whose refurbishment was funded ...
German spy chief: Assad regime won't survive
Germany's foreign intelligence chief says the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad won't survive, but it's impossible to say how long it will hang ...
3 young brothers dead in Greek house fire
In a tragedy related to Greece's financial crisis, three children died in a northern village Saturday when a fire burned down the home of their ...
7 killed as small planes collide in Germany
Two small planes collided in midair over central Germany on Saturday and crashed, killing seven people, police said. The collision happened near the ...
Russian premier jokes about secret files on aliens
"Men in Black" agents K and J may be about to recruit a new Russian assistant: Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Medvedev has spoken about top secret ...
French island of Corsica hit by attacks
A man was shot dead and several houses were bombed on the French island of Corsica, a vacation destination that has seen a wave of gang killings this ...
Serb shot and wounded in Kosovo
Police say a Serb working for Kosovo's ethnic Albanian authorities has been wounded in a drive-by shooting. The attack occurred late Friday in the ...
28 people arrested in Spain for child pornography
Officials say 28 people have been arrested in Spain on suspicion of being linked to an international child pornography network operating in Europe and ...
Clinton: Northern Ireland peace requires vigilance
Extremists still scheming to spoil Northern Ireland's fragile peace can be beaten through a commitment to political sacrifice, compromise and ...
France nixing financial aid for expelled Roma
France will stop giving financial aid to Roma whom it has expelled to their native Romania after fears the money was being used to undermine the ...