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The head of an asylum center in Norway says more than 20 people were injured when a group of men armed with bats and iron bars attacked the facility.
British prime Minister Gordon Brown is facing fresh woes after his party was defeated in a special election in one of its strongholds.
Into the foremost symbol of Europe's historic divisions and freedoms, steps U.S. Senator Barack Obama, as he makes an unusual campaign detour around the world.
The French Senate has voted to allow employers to opt out of the country's 35-hour workweek, a significant change to an employment law much loved by French workers.
Radovan Karadzic sent word he plans to defend himself against U.N. genocide charges, but his fellow Serbs were more enthralled with details that emerged Wednesday about his secret life: a mistress, a bogus family in the U.S., and regular visits to the Madhouse bar and its photo of his beardless days as wartime leader of Bosnian Serbs.
The oldest known surviving copy of the New Testament gets the modern touch Thursday when parts of it go online for the first time.
A Royal Marine who dived on a live hand grenade to save his comrades in Afghanistan and escaped with minor wounds will be given Britain's highest bravery award, the Ministry of Defense said Wednesday.
A protester who wanted his message to stick managed to superglue himself to the British prime minister Tuesday evening.
Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, who has been indicted on war crimes charges, plans to defend himself in front of a U.N. tribunal, his lawyer said.
A husband and wife who faked the man's drowning death in a $500,000 fraud have each been sentenced to more than six years in jail, according to reports.
The head of an asylum center in Norway says more than 20 people were injured when a group of men armed with bats and iron bars attacked the facility.
British prime Minister Gordon Brown is facing fresh woes after his party was defeated in a special election in one of its strongholds.
Into the foremost symbol of Europe's historic divisions and freedoms, steps U.S. Senator Barack Obama, as he makes an unusual campaign detour around the world.
The French Senate has voted to allow employers to opt out of the country's 35-hour workweek, a significant change to an employment law much loved by French workers.
Radovan Karadzic sent word he plans to defend himself against U.N. genocide charges, but his fellow Serbs were more enthralled with details that emerged Wednesday about his secret life: a mistress, a bogus family in the U.S., and regular visits to the Madhouse bar and its photo of his beardless days as wartime leader of Bosnian Serbs.
The oldest known surviving copy of the New Testament gets the modern touch Thursday when parts of it go online for the first time.
A Royal Marine who dived on a live hand grenade to save his comrades in Afghanistan and escaped with minor wounds will be given Britain's highest bravery award, the Ministry of Defense said Wednesday.
A protester who wanted his message to stick managed to superglue himself to the British prime minister Tuesday evening.
Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, who has been indicted on war crimes charges, plans to defend himself in front of a U.N. tribunal, his lawyer said.
A husband and wife who faked the man's drowning death in a $500,000 fraud have each been sentenced to more than six years in jail, according to reports.
The European Commission has frozen hundreds of millions in aid to Bulgaria citing corruption, organized crime and spending irregularities.
The European Union proposed a total import ban Wednesday on products derived from seals that are killed in a cruel way, a move that could hurt the annual seal hunt in Canada -- the largest in the world.
Greek police and the Fire Service say hundreds of local residents and factory workers have been evacuated from homes and businesses north of Athens, as a large forest fire forced authorities to suspend northbound train services and close a section of Greece's main highway.
A British judge ruled Wednesday that radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza may not appeal an order for his extradition to the United States, where he faces terrorism-related charges, the judge's office said.
Italian newspapers, an archbishop and civil liberties campaigners expressed shock and revulsion on Monday after photographs were published of sunbathers apparently enjoying a day at the beach just meters from where the bodies of two drowned Roma girls were laid out on the sand.
The Archbishop of Naples barely disguised his disgust: "Indifference is not an emotion for human beings." Cardinal Crecenzio Seppe wrote in his parish Web site blog Sunday that "to turn the other way or to mind your own business can sometimes be more devastating than the events that occur."
Former Bosnian leader Radovan Karadzic will fight extradition from Serbia on war crime charges, his lawyer said Tuesday.
The arrest of Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic is an important step in the reconciliation process in the Balkans, Christiane Amanpour, CNN senior international correspondent, says.
The outbreak of war seemed like a joke to Jasmina, then just 19 years old. She dreamed of being an economist and says she played with her toddler son and baby daughter as if they were toys.
It is now remembered as the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II.
The arrest of Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, offers a clear indication of Serbia's shift towards the West in recent months after years as an international pariah even with Belgrade still at odds with the international community over the status of the breakaway province of Kosovo.
Radovan Karadzic's arrest after a decade-long hunt is the equivalent of catching Europe's Osama bin Laden, the U.S. diplomat who brokered peace in Bosnia says.
Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic is in custody in Belgrade, Serbia, and will soon be handed over to an international war crimes tribunal at The Hague, Netherlands, to face charges over his alleged role in Balkans war atrocities.
Spanish Civil Guards Tuesday arrested nine suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA, who are thought to be behind the May bombing that killed a Civil Guard, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said.
Spain expelled a Syrian Tuesday who was convicted last year but later acquitted on appeal of a role in the 2004 Madrid train bombings, a Spanish Interior Ministry spokeswoman said.
Radovan Karadzic, whose Interpol charges listed "flamboyant behavior" as a distinguishing characteristic, was a practicing psychiatrist who came to be nicknamed the "Butcher of Bosnia."
Former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic, the man accused of masterminding the massacre of tens of thousands of Bosnian Muslims and Croats during the brutal Balkans conflict, has been arrested after more than 10 years on the run.
Former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic, accused of masterminding "ethnic cleansing" deportations and killings of Bosnian Muslims and Croats, has been arrested after more than a decade in hiding.
The arrest of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic leaves the former Bosnian Serb army commander -- Ratko Mladic -- as the most sought-after fugitive from the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
Former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic, accused of masterminding "ethnic cleansing" deportations and killings of Bosnian Muslims and Croats, has been arrested after more than a decade in hiding, a U.N. war crimes tribunal said Monday.
Portugal's attorney general has told police to halt the probe into the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann -- but her parents vowed the search would go on.
For years, it's been a national embarrassment. Over the past year, it's spiraled into a crisis damaging Italy's image all over the world: the heaps of garbage lining the streets of Naples.
The Italian prime minister plans to declare Friday that the worst part of a garbage crisis in Naples is over, even though a visit to one neighborhood found residents still living amid huge piles of trash.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has dodged an eccentric collection of anti-European protesters and opened talks designed to overcome Irish voters' rejection of the European Union reform treaty.
A Spanish court has cleared two Syrian-born men of indictments for alleged terrorist financing, according to court documents viewed by CNN on Monday.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that his country's disagreement with Britain over expanding settlements in the West Bank "should not stand in the way" of a peace agreement with the Palestinians.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown demanded Sunday that Israel cease settlement construction and promised more money to jump-start the battered Palestinian economy.
Four bombs went off in northern Spain Sunday after a warning from a caller claiming to represent the Basque separatist group ETA, CNN's partner station CNN Plus reported.
Italy-based organizers say two countrymen whose fellow climber perished on a Himalayan peak are believed to be heading to their base camp.
Iraq's largest Sunni Arab bloc rejoined the Cabinet on Saturday after a year-long boycott.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Saturday that plans are being made to scale back troops in Iraq, but he would not set an "artificial timetable."
The world's Anglican bishops turned Saturday to the enormous task at the heart of their once-a-decade summit: trying to keep the Anglican family from breaking apart over the Bible and homosexuality.
Explosives used to destroy land mines have disappeared from a site near Lyon, France, the French Interior Ministry said Friday.
Lightning has killed and injured more than a dozen people in Russia in the past two weeks, officials say, blaming widespread use of electronic gadgets such as cell phones for an increase in deadly strikes.
Young women in bright miniskirts and high heels line up to sell themselves in the dingy back streets throughout the Russian capital. Moscow's illegal flesh markets are flourishing, with up to 30 women at each pickup point, or tochka, standing in order of price for the night.
Several shots were fired at a center for teenage asylum-seekers in Norway on Friday, and a 16-year-old Somali boy was seriously wounded, police said.
Belgium's king refused to accept the resignation of the prime minister and his government, calling on key officials to redouble efforts to resolve a longtime disagreement over more self-rule for the country's Dutch and French speakers.
Forensic experts say they have exhumed 66 Srebrenica massacre victims from a mass grave in eastern Bosnia.
Amsterdam's Artis zoo says a baby red panda adopted by a house cat after being rejected by its mother has died.
It was 90 years ago Thursday that Russia's last royal family was executed -- but this year's anniversary comes with scientific proof ending years of speculation that some of the Romanovs managed to survive.
Uranium-bearing liquid has leaked from a broken underground pipe at a nuclear site in southeastern France, the national nuclear safety authority said Friday. It was the second leak discovered at a French site this month.
The youngest son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was arrested and charged in Switzerland for allegedly beating up two of his servants, his lawyer said Thursday.
A sweeping government audit has revealed that up to 50,000 pieces are missing from Russia's museums -- everything from Pre-Revolutionary medals and weapons to precious works of art -- a member of the survey team said Thursday.
Two teenage girls from Great Britain will fly home Thursday after spending a year behind bars in Ghana for drug-smuggling, the British High Commission in the west African country said.
Spain's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the acquittal of a top suspect in the 2004 Madrid commuter train bombings, rejecting an appeal by prosecutors on the grounds he has already been convicted of the same crime in Italy.
A man named by police as a suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann won £600,000 ($1.2 million) in libel damages Thursday from nearly a dozen British newspapers, his lawyer said.
Controversy over gay clergy and female bishops is likely to dominate the Anglican church's once-a-decade conference, which begins Wednesday.
Portugal's attorney-general says he will announce next week whether he plans to bring charges in the disappearance of British child Madeleine McCann.
An 80-year-old man was forced to undergo emergency surgery to have his leg amputated following a hospital blunder in which the broken limb was encased too tightly in a plaster cast.
Russians attended church ceremonies Wednesday marking 90 years since the last czar and his family were murdered by the Bolsheviks, while investigators reaffirmed that remains unearthed last year were those of Nicholas II's only son and a daughter.
Jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky filed a request for parole Wednesday and his lawyer challenged Russia's new president to follow through on promises to uphold the rule of law.
Thousands of British local government employees began a two-day strike over pay on Wednesday.
The Athens Geodynamic Institute says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.3 has struck near the Greek island of Rhodes. No injuries or damage have been reported.
Swedish officials say a theme park ride has collapsed in a city in western Sweden, injuring 30 people.
Three U.N. experts accused Italy on Tuesday of discriminating against Gypsies by going ahead with a plan to fingerprint them, saying that Italian politicians are creating a climate of ethnic bias.
Belgium's government collapsed Tuesday, unable to resolve an enduring divide over more self-rule for the country's Dutch and French-speakers. The gap was so wide the premier suggested the end of Belgium as a country was looming.
The wife of a British man who reappeared five years after he was believed drowned "lied at length" to cover up her part in a $500,000 insurance con, a court heard Tuesday.
The wife of a UK man who reappeared five years after he was believed drowned has been accused of defrauding insurance companies and lying to her own sons, UK news agencies report.
Turkey's military says 22 Kurdish rebels have been killed in recent clashes in southeastern Turkey.
A strong earthquake struck Tuesday near Greek islands close to the Turkish coast, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
A laser show at a music festival injured more than 30 people, Russian news reports said.
Prime Minister Yves Leterme offered the resignation of his government Monday after it failed to rally around constitutional reforms designed to grant more self-rule to Belgium's Dutch- and French-speaking camps.
Seven people, including an American, were hurt Thursday during the fourth day of the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, medical authorities told the Pamplona Press Association.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced Monday his country will step up sanctions on Zimbabwe's government and will call on the European Union to do the same.
Russia announced Monday that it is sending warships to patrol Arctic waters for the first time since the breakup of the Soviet Union -- the latest move to increase the country's global military presence.
A second man charged with the brutal murder of two French students in south-east London has appeared in court.
Emergency officials say a bear in a Ukraine zoo fatally mauled a man who fell into its enclosure trying to photograph it.
Thousands of people are flocking to Pamplona, Spain, for the Festival of San Fermin and the running of the bulls -- a tradition that goes back for generations.
Police say two competitors died of hypothermia and lack of oxygen during an endurance race up Germany's highest mountain. Six other people were hospitalized.
Three of the men charged with plotting to bomb transatlantic passenger flights pleaded guilty at a London court Monday to conspiracy to cause explosions, report UK news agencies.
Five people, including a Briton and a Dane, were hurt Monday during the final day of the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona, officials said.
A pack of steers and fighting bulls injured five people on their last run through the streets of Pamplona Monday in a relatively safe end to the weeklong San Fermin festival.
An Australian woman often described as the world's oldest blogger has died at the age of 108 after posting a final message about her ailing health but how she sang "a happy song, as I do every day."
Pope Benedict XVI said Saturday that he is praying there will not be any more rifts in the Anglican community following the recent Church of England decision on women bishops.
The Spanish Interior Ministry says the death toll among migrants found packed aboard a boat trying to reach one of Spain's Canary Islands has risen to at least six.
The Spanish Interior Ministry says the death toll among migrants found packed aboard a boat trying to reach one of Spain's Canary Islands has risen to at least six.
Italian prosecutors are requesting indictments against three suspects in connection with the November killing of a 20-year-old British student, one of the suspect's lawyers told CNN.
A frail Irene Famulak clutched her brother on the airport tarmac, her arm wrapped around him in a tight embrace, tears streaming down their faces. It was the first time since 1942 they had seen each other, when she was 17 and he was just 7.
Tens of thousands of people commemorated Friday the 13th anniversary of Europe's worst massacre since World War II, and buried 308 more victims of the infamous Srebrenica massacre.
The UK Ministry of Defence confirmed Thursday that it has agreed to pay £2.83 million ($5.58 million) to the family of an Iraqi who died while being detained by UK troops and several other men who were mistreated.
A man suspected of driving the getaway car in the U.S. consulate attack says he was simply hired as a driver and had no idea that his passengers planned a terrorist attack, a Turkish newspaper reported Friday.
Britain has said it is "wholly unacceptable" for Russian authorities to have accused one of its diplomats of spying.
Prosecutors for the first time questioned the woman allegedly held captive for 24 years by her father, and video of the interviews will be shown in court at the father's trial later this year, Austrian media reported Friday.
Russia has accused the British Embassy's top trade official in Moscow of espionage, the British Foreign Office confirmed Friday.
Police have arrested another person in connection with the stabbing deaths of two French students in London, police said Thursday.
The European Union will not draft a new treaty after Irish voters rejected the existing one last month, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Wednesday.
Turkish police have detained four people in connection with Wednesday's "terrorist" attack outside the U.S. consulate in Istanbul, the interior minister said Thursday.
Fifteen Africans died while trying to reach Spain's southern coast in a small, overcrowded boat, Spanish officials told CNN on Thursday.
From the frontiers of mirth research, scholars offer these words of comfort: If you are mortified of dancing for fear of being the butt of jokes, don't worry, you are far from alone.
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