A fake priest was caught trying to hear confessions in St. Peter's Basilica and was tried by a Vatican tribunal, a Vatican judge said in an interview published Saturday.
A man raced into Berlin's Madame Tussauds wax museum Saturday and ripped the head off a waxwork of Adolf Hitler, police said.
Police said Saturday they have arrested a man in connection with the brutal stabbing deaths of two French students in London this week.
Police have arrested a man in connection with the brutal stabbing killings of two French students in London this week.
Collectors paid thousands of pounds (dollars) Saturday for letters from British royalty to a trusted servant, including a note from the late Queen Mother Elizabeth requesting the aide pack bottles of gin and Dubonnet for an outing, "in case it is needed."
Divers pulled six bodies out of the Sava River and fought strong currents Friday to search for five other people still missing after two canoes were crushed running over a dam in southeastern Slovenia.
Years after she was taken hostage in the jungles of South America, Ingrid Betancourt stood on French soil Friday, telling a crowd of well-wishers: "I cry out of joy."
Georgia and its breakaway region of South Ossetia offered differing accounts Friday of a shooting that highlights continued tension between them amid Georgia's NATO ambitions.
Britain's rundown housing estates and deprived inner cities will be the setting for a new project that aims to use classical music to lift children out of the poverty trap.
British police investigating the horrific murder of two French students in London Thursday are exploring the possibility it was linked to an earlier burglary.
A fake priest was caught trying to hear confessions in St. Peter's Basilica and was tried by a Vatican tribunal, a Vatican judge said in an interview published Saturday.
A man raced into Berlin's Madame Tussauds wax museum Saturday and ripped the head off a waxwork of Adolf Hitler, police said.
Police said Saturday they have arrested a man in connection with the brutal stabbing deaths of two French students in London this week.
Police have arrested a man in connection with the brutal stabbing killings of two French students in London this week.
Collectors paid thousands of pounds (dollars) Saturday for letters from British royalty to a trusted servant, including a note from the late Queen Mother Elizabeth requesting the aide pack bottles of gin and Dubonnet for an outing, "in case it is needed."
Divers pulled six bodies out of the Sava River and fought strong currents Friday to search for five other people still missing after two canoes were crushed running over a dam in southeastern Slovenia.
Years after she was taken hostage in the jungles of South America, Ingrid Betancourt stood on French soil Friday, telling a crowd of well-wishers: "I cry out of joy."
Georgia and its breakaway region of South Ossetia offered differing accounts Friday of a shooting that highlights continued tension between them amid Georgia's NATO ambitions.
Britain's rundown housing estates and deprived inner cities will be the setting for a new project that aims to use classical music to lift children out of the poverty trap.
British police investigating the horrific murder of two French students in London Thursday are exploring the possibility it was linked to an earlier burglary.
Britain's senior intelligence official has been rushed to a London hospital after falling into a coma, officials said Friday, but foul play is not suspected in his sudden illness.
A homemade bomb exploded at an outdoor concert in Belarus' capital early Friday, injuring at least 50 people. Officials blamed hooligans.
Two French students who were found stabbed to death in a burned-out London apartment were the victims of a "frenzied, brutal, horrific attack," police said Thursday, as they appealed for information about the case.
An official says eight miners are trapped in a mine in northern Sweden after a fire.
Ingrid Betancourt has been reunited with her children for the first time in six years since her abduction by FARC rebels in Colombia.
Explosions rocked a Bulgarian army ammunition storage facility outside of the capital of Sofia early Thursday, a government official said.
A French judge ordered Continental Airlines and five people to stand trial for manslaughter in connection with the 2000 crash of a Concorde jet that killed 113 people, a prosecutor said Thursday.
The United States and Poland have reached a tentative deal to place part of a ballistic missile defense system on its territory, a plan that has drawn sharp objections from Russia, a senior administration official said Wednesday.
Britain's Prince William has helped the U.S. Coast Guard bust a drug smuggling boat carrying cocaine worth a minimum of $80 million.
President Dmitry Medvedev outlined an ambitious plan Wednesday to combat corruption, which he said has become a "way of life" in Russia.
Nicolas Sarkozy had intended to take Europe by storm with an exciting new agenda when France inherited the six-month revolving presidency of the EU on July 1. Instead he is being buffeted by storms of others' making, forced into a patch-and-mend role on the European constitution.
Hundreds of British truckers hit the road to London Wednesday to take their protest about high fuel prices to lawmakers.
Britain's Home Office said Wednesday it is banning the military wing of Hezbollah, the Lebanese political movement, because of its support for "terrorism" in Iraq and the Palestinian territories.
France's six-month European Union presidency got off to a shaky start amid bickering between the bloc's trade chief and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and glum comments from Poland's leader on the EU's future direction.
Britain's Prince Charles has converted his 38-year-old Aston Martin to run on biofuel made from surplus wine, his office revealed Tuesday.
Ratifying the European Union's reform treaty after Irish voters rejected it last month would be "pointless," Poland's president was quoted as saying Tuesday.
Portuguese police have handed their file on the Madeleine McCann case to prosecutors to determine whether authorities should continue looking for the missing British girl, the country's Public Prosecution Service said Tuesday.
The chief of the French army resigned Tuesday after an accidental shooting at a military open house that left 17 people wounded.
Portuguese police are dropping their investigation into the disappearance of toddler Madeleine McCann due to a lack of evidence, media reported Tuesday.
The head of France's army has resigned following a weekend shooting at a military show that injured 17 when real bullets were used instead of blanks, the French presidency said Tuesday.
British people love pubs -- so much, in fact, that a recent survey found that they cherish only fish and chips and the Queen more.
Fifteen camels, several llamas and a potbellied pig broke out of a circus near Amsterdam on Monday. The ringleader? A giraffe who bolted, too.
Unidentified hackers broke into several hundred Lithuanian Web sites over the weekend, plastering them with communist symbols, government officials said Monday.
Two explosions near the central market in the capital of the separatist Georgian republic of Abkhazia wounded six people Monday, officials and a news agency said.
A military shooting demonstration in southeast France on Sunday left 16 people wounded, including children, when real bullets were used instead of blank ones, officials said.
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said his government is no longer prepared to negotiate with ETA to put an end to Basque separatist violence, according to an interview published Sunday.
"Within the oil crisis and climate change there is the opportunity for an economic, social and cultural renaissance the likes of which we have never seen before," says environmentalist and perma-culture designer Rob Hopkins.
This city's famed marijuana bars have weathered many challenges over the years and are still smoking.
Hollywood star Will Smith led a London crowd of 46,664 in a chorus of "Happy Birthday" to Nelson Mandela on Friday at a party for the South African prisoner, president and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
A glittering line-up is by no means a guarantee of a great night as previous charity gigs have proved -- but when that show has the Nelson Mandela factor, nothing it seems can go wrong.
Hollywood star Will Smith led a crowd of 46,664 in a chorus of "Happy Birthday" to Nelson Mandela on Friday at a party for the South African prisoner, president and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Queen Elizabeth and the royal family cost British taxpayers an average of 66 pence ($1.32) per person last year, Buckingham Palace announced Friday in its annual report of royal finances.
A German man doused his BMW with gasoline and torched it Friday in protest at skyrocketing fuel costs, police said.
Hail the size of pingpong balls damaged some 30,000 new vehicles at a Volkswagen plant in northern Germany, a company spokesman said Friday.
A Romanian government committee has decided to allow a pregnant 11-year-old who was raped by her teenage uncle to have an abortion, a government spokesman said Friday.
Nelson Mandela is in London for a week of events to celebrate his 90th birthday.
Thousands of football fans fled for safety and millions of TV viewers were left disappointed Wednesday night as an electrical storm in Vienna disrupted coverage of the first of the Euro 2008 semifinals.
Romanian authorities plan to decide Friday whether to allow an 11-year-old girl to have an abortion after she was raped by her teenage uncle, the Romanian Ministry of Health said Thursday.
Topics included "Britney's Tears: The Abject Female Celebrity in Postemotional Society" and "Hooker, Victim and/or Doormat: Lindsay Lohan and the Culture of Celebrity Notoriety."
A former bar owner seriously injured in an assault involving the husband of troubled singer Amy Winehouse was cleared Wednesday of accepting a £200,000 ($400,000) bribe to save his attackers from jail.
A water lily painting by impressionist master Claude Monet was sold for more than $80 million at auction Tuesday, kicking off a week of modern-art sales expected to reach records that defy the global economic downturn.
A human rights group has asked a Spanish court to indict four alleged former Nazi concentration camp guards and seek their extradition from the United States over the deaths of Spanish citizens, a lawyer said Tuesday.
Nearly 40,000 travelers will remember U.S. President George W. Bush's stopover in London. Their flights were canceled or delayed at Heathrow Airport to accommodate him, according to British Airways.
DJ and pop star Boy George has been denied a visa to enter the United States, his Web site said Tuesday.
Nelson Mandela, the irrepressible anti-apartheid campaigner who emerged from decades of imprisonment to lead his country into a new era, will this week be joined audience of thousands and a star-studded guest list to mark his 90th birthday.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Monday there could be no Mideast peace unless Israel drops its refusal to cede sovereignty over parts of Jerusalem claimed by the Palestinians, challenging one of Israel's most emotionally held positions.
An American hiker stranded in the Bavarian Alps for nearly three days was rescued after using her sports bra as a signal, police in southern Germany said Monday.
Fiat said Monday it will keep running an ad featuring actor Richard Gere and a reference to Tibet that has angered some in China and prompted the Italian automaker to issue an apology.
Police in several European countries on Monday detained at least 50 people suspected of funneling illegal immigrants, mainly Iraqi Kurds, into Northern Europe.
There is often an air of theatrical unreality about EU summits. This one seems to be the Keystone Cops Meets Othello, or any other tragedy you care to name.
A Russian court on Monday reduced the three-year prison sentence of a U.S. pastor convicted of smuggling rifle ammunition and ordered him set free.
A Macedonian journalist jailed on suspicion of murdering at least two women in crimes he wrote about for his newspaper has been found dead in his cell, police said Monday.
British bureaucrats have been warned: no more synergies, stakeholders or sustainable communities.
Thousands of partygoers, pagans and self-styled druids cheered and banged drums Saturday to greet the dawn at Stonehenge on the longest day of the year, the summer solstice.
Serb authorities Saturday turned over an ex-Bosnian Serb police chief to the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands.
European Union leaders acknowledged Friday that their much-maligned reform treaty, in the works for the better part of this decade, was off the rails again after Irish voters rejected it in a referendum last week.
Members of the European Union decided Thursday to formally lift sanctions on Cuba, a spokeswoman for EU Secretary-General Javier Solana said.
Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza moved a step closer Friday to extradition to the U.S., where he faces terrorism-related charges.
British detectives have launched a fresh probe into the umbrella assassination of Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov nearly 30 years ago, according to reports.
Sudan's Darfur crisis has exploded on many fronts -- violence, hunger, displacement and looting -- but United Nations peacekeepers say the biggest issue now affecting the region is the systematic rape of women and children.
Prosecutors said Thursday they have wrapped up the investigation into the slaying of a British student in central Italy last year, paving the way for possible indictments for three suspects held in the case.
European leaders met Thursday for the first time since Ireland rejected the EU's new constitution, with Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen expected to be on the end of some tough questioning.
Prince Harry paraded alongside his fellow British servicemen in Scotland Wednesday, as he attended a memorial to service members who have died in Afghanistan.
A measure to suspend Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's corruption trial is quickly nearing approval despite protests by opposition politicians who accuse Berlusconi of using public office to protect his private interests.
Serbia's Supreme Court sentenced late strongman Slobodan Milosevic's security chief to 40 years in prison Thursday for organizing a deadly attack on a prominent dissident in 1999.
New Zealand police are to speak to four England rugby players about attack claims made following an alleged incident at their team hotel in Auckland, it was reported Thursday.
Tents, sacks of food and a replica of a burnt-out village hut appeared in Trafalgar Square as a tourist hotspot became a refugee camp to highlight the plight of millions of people displaced in Darfur and elsewhere.
Latvian Prime Minister Ivars Godmanis suffered serious head injuries Wednesday in a road accident in the center of the capital while traveling in a car with a siren on, his office said.
European Union leaders are meeting in Brussels on Thursday for the first time since Irish voters rejected the Lisbon Treaty.
Britain's home secretary said Wednesday she was "extremely disappointed" at a court's decision to release on bail a radical Muslim cleric known as Osama bin Laden's spiritual ambassador to Europe.
A German court has ruled against a woman who claimed a phobia of official letters in her appeal against authorities' decision to cut off child support benefits.
Swiss television has made an embarrassing mistake in broadcasting a Euro 2008 soccer match.
Formal charges were filed Wednesday against four men accused in connection with the 2006 killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Russian investigators said.
New Zealand police are investigating a "serious allegation" against four England rugby internationals following an alleged incident at their team hotel in Auckland.
British officials reacted angrily Tuesday to a judge's decision freeing Abu Qatada, a radical preacher once called Osama bin Laden's "spiritual ambassador in Europe."
France will soon rejoin NATO's military command more than 40 years after it left, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi hit back Tuesday against renewed accusations that he was using public office to protect his private interests in a battle over legislation that would suspend his corruption trial.
A British mercenary accused of plotting to overthrow the president of Equatorial Guinea faces a possible death penalty when he goes on trial Tuesday in Malabo.
Prince William was made a Royal Knight of the Garter on Monday at a ceremony presided over by his grandmother -- the British monarch -- and attended by his father, brother and girlfriend.
The European Union has agreed to freeze the overseas assets of Iran's Bank Melli, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday, but a spokeswoman for the EU's foreign policy chief said no decision had been reached.
News reports say a cafe owner has been arrested after holding hostages in a town hall for nearly six hours.
Three days after Irish voters rejected a treaty seeking major reforms to the European Union, the bloc's 27 members on Monday began the search for an exit from yet another crisis of confidence over European integration.
There were no fond farewells from the British media as U.S. President George W. Bush made his final stop on his last European tour before leaving office, with several papers using the occasion for a damning assessment of his legacy.
Three Spanish truck drivers' unions halted a strike Monday that seriously disrupted supplies to factories and markets before losing steam.
A leading Christian church has been plunged into a new row about gay clergy after a marriage-style service between two male priests at a London church, local media report.
The bishop of London said Sunday he would order an investigation into a wedding-like church service for two male priests.
Ireland and the European Union both face a painful dilemma because of Irish voters' rejection of an important EU treaty, Prime Minister Brian Cowen said Sunday.
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