
Woman describes Berlusconi's 'bunga bunga' parties
Silvio Berlusconi's private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up ...

Report: Bahrain police search home of top cleric
A main opposition group in Bahrain says police have searched the home of the Gulf nation's most senior Shiite cleric, who has strongly sided with ...

EU survey reveals many gays live in fear
Across Europe, gay couples are scared of publicly engaging in even the most basic expression of their affection: Holding hands. Released Friday, the ...
Coptic cleric says he will sue Israeli police
An Egyptian Coptic cleric who was mistreated during Orthodox Easter services is threatening to sue. Video supplied to The Associated Press shows ...
Google challenger in Vietnam redirecting queries
A Russian-financed search engine seeking to challenge Google's dominance in Vietnam is redirecting queries for some politically sensitive terms to the ...
House immigration group reaches a deal
A bipartisan group of House members announced a deal Thursday on sweeping immigration legislation, a breakthrough that could boost chances for one of ...
English FA approves minimum 5-game ban for racism
Racist and homophobic abuse by players in England will carry a minimum five-match ban from next season. The Football Association says the sanction ...
UN: 14 Iranian exiles moved from Iraq to Albania
The first exiles from an Iranian opposition group have moved to Albania from a camp near Baghdad as part of a relocation process, the United Nations ...
Greek strikes halt air travel
Flights in Greece were halted for four hours Thursday as the country's two largest labor unions staged work stoppages to protest austerity measures ...
Pope blasts "cult of money" that tyrannizes poor
Pope Francis has denounced the global financial system, blasting the "cult of money" that he says is tyrannizing the poor and turning humans into ...

Mystical branch of Islam has resurgence in Somalia
Hundreds of sweating Sufis chant and sway as the lead sheik moves into the middle of a circle of worshippers and bursts into a chant louder than ...

Syrian troops repel rebel attack on Aleppo prison
Syrian rebels withdrew from a prison in the northern city of Aleppo Thursday after heavy fighting with government troops, an activist group said, as ...

Tale of Mexican drug violence rattles Cannes
The Cannes Film Festival has had its first shock to the system, in the shape of Mexican director Amat Escalante's unsparingly violent drug war drama ...

Man shoots himself in head at Paris school
A dozen students and a teacher saw a man kill himself with a shot in the head at a private Catholic school on Thursday, Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoe ...
Slovenia govt' confirms union agreed wage cuts
Slovenia's government has formally approved an agreement it reached with trade unions to cut public sector wages by up to 4.8 percent as part of ...
Vietnam provider drops foreign news TV channels
A Vietnamese satellite TV company stopped airing international channels including BBC and CNN on Thursday, citing a law that foreign governments have ...

Polish exports of meat for Jews, Muslims in limbo
For some, it was a barbaric way to treat animals. For others, it was great business. Until January, slaughterhouses across Poland — a deeply Catholic ...
Human Rights Watch urges legal reforms in Hungary
Human Rights Watch urged the European Union on Thursday to ensure that Hungary changes its constitution and other laws to bring them in line with ...

Gosnell case fuels bitter US abortion debate
One of the last people seated in the witness box at Dr. Kermit Gosnell's murder trial was a character witness for a co-defendant, and had nothing to ...
Trade group slams safety pact for Bangladesh
The largest U.S. retail-industry group on Wednesday criticized an international pact aimed at improving factory conditions in Bangladesh's garment ...

US court denies asylum to German home-schoolers
A U.S. appeals court has denied asylum to a Christian family who fled Germany so they could home-school their children, ruling that immigration laws ...

Scottish cardinal to atone for sexual misconduct
The Vatican on Wednesday ordered a disgraced Scottish cardinal to leave Scotland for several months to pray and atone for sexual misconduct, issuing ...