A British airline said Monday that one of its flights was forced to divert to Turkey after the co-pilot died in mid-flight. He died of natural causes, the airline said.
The decades-long division of Cyprus could be resolved by the end of the year, the leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriots said Monday, a day after Greek Cypriots elected a new president.
Four Greenpeace activists breached security at Heathrow Airport on Monday to climb on top of a British Airways plane and protest plans to build a third runway, the environmental group and airport authorities said.
A vast underground vault storing millions of seeds from around the world is scheduled to open this week in a mountain on a remote island near the Arctic Ocean.
With his poll numbers sinking, is French President Nicolas Sarkozy losing his cool?
Communist leader Dimitris Christofias has won Cyprus' crucial presidential runoff, pledging to restart moribund talks to reunify the island and immediately agreed to meet the leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriots.
Hundreds of pro-Serbian activists gathered Sunday outside the White House to decry Kosovo's secession from Serbia this month and to demand the Bush administration retract its recognition of Kosovo as an independent country.
Serbian prosecutors said Saturday they were hunting rioters who targeted the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade leaving one person dead while a senior Serbian minister reportedly blamed Washington for the violence triggered by Kosovo's breakaway.
Vandals daubed a swastika on one of the slabs that make up the Holocaust memorial in downtown Berlin, police said Saturday.
Four people have died after fire raged through a Siberian night club early Saturday, an official said.
A British airline said Monday that one of its flights was forced to divert to Turkey after the co-pilot died in mid-flight. He died of natural causes, the airline said.
The decades-long division of Cyprus could be resolved by the end of the year, the leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriots said Monday, a day after Greek Cypriots elected a new president.
Four Greenpeace activists breached security at Heathrow Airport on Monday to climb on top of a British Airways plane and protest plans to build a third runway, the environmental group and airport authorities said.
A vast underground vault storing millions of seeds from around the world is scheduled to open this week in a mountain on a remote island near the Arctic Ocean.
With his poll numbers sinking, is French President Nicolas Sarkozy losing his cool?
Communist leader Dimitris Christofias has won Cyprus' crucial presidential runoff, pledging to restart moribund talks to reunify the island and immediately agreed to meet the leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriots.
Hundreds of pro-Serbian activists gathered Sunday outside the White House to decry Kosovo's secession from Serbia this month and to demand the Bush administration retract its recognition of Kosovo as an independent country.
Serbian prosecutors said Saturday they were hunting rioters who targeted the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade leaving one person dead while a senior Serbian minister reportedly blamed Washington for the violence triggered by Kosovo's breakaway.
Vandals daubed a swastika on one of the slabs that make up the Holocaust memorial in downtown Berlin, police said Saturday.
Four people have died after fire raged through a Siberian night club early Saturday, an official said.
Turkey's president approved on Friday a pair of constitutional amendments that would allow female students to wear Islamic head scarves at universities.
Kosovo's breakaway from Serbia provoked fresh unrest Friday as U.N. police were attacked by ethnic Serb demonstrators in northern Kosovo a day after angry demonstrations in the Serbian capital Belgrade left one person dead.
Watching on television the hundreds of thousands demonstrating in front of the parliament building I couldn't help but thinking at the many demonstrations I covered in Belgrade.
Three British bankers were sentenced Friday to 37 months in jail for a multi-million dollar fraudulent Enron-related scam.
Princess Diana's former butler Paul Burrell was Friday asked to return to court to explain discrepencies in his testimony to her inquest following newspaper claims that he gave misleading evidence under oath.
UK media group apologizes to Will Smith over 'Hitler was a good person' story
A judge in eastern England sentenced the killer of five prostitutes to life in prison on Friday, with no hope of release.
A jury convicted a former pub manager Thursday of killing five women who worked as prostitutes, a murder spree that terrified an English town and horrified the country.
Angry demonstrators protesting Kosovo's independence from Serbia attacked the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade on Thursday, throwing rocks, breaking windows and setting fires.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Thursday that British territory was used to transport two suspects in the CIA's rendition program.
A German lawmaker and part-time treasure hunter claimed Thursday he may have found where the Nazis stashed pieces of the storied Amber Room treasure plundered from the Soviet Union during World War II.
Tens of thousands of opposition supporters returned to the streets of Armenia's capital on Thursday to galvanize support for their claim that the presidential election was rigged.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is to meet with Otmar Hassler, the prime minister of Liechtenstein on Wednesday to discuss the growing tax-fraud investigation in Germany, The Associated Press reports.
The former head of MI6 denied Wednesday that the British intelligence agency killed Princess Diana and her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, in 1997.
The widow and son of a paparazzi photographer who covered Princess Diana were scheduled to testify Thursday at the inquest into her death, and lawyers were expected to ask them about the man's Fiat, which some believe played a role in the fatal crash.
The family of Madeleine McCann wants to see surveillance video footage from a French diner where a Dutch tourist reported seeing the missing British girl, a family spokesman said Thursday.
The family of Madeleine McCann wants to see surveillance video footage from a French diner where a Dutch tourist reported seeing the missing British girl, a family spokesman said Thursday.
Spain put its security forces on maximum alert on Thursday ahead of the general elections on March 9 -- four years after the Madrid train bombings shook the last elections and continue to reverberate through the conscience of society.
Turkey's parliament on Wednesday approved a law to return properties confiscated by the state to Christian and Jewish minority foundations -- a key reform demanded by the European Union.
A Dutch tourist says she recently spotted missing 4-year-old Madeleine McCann at a French restaurant near Montpellier, McCann family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said Wednesday.
The body of a teenage girl was found hanging in the woods of a Welsh village Tuesday, and authorities said it was the 17th young suicide in just over a year near one town in South Wales.
The commander of NATO forces in Kosovo said Wednesday he does not plan to step up security in the tense north despite violent attacks by Kosovo Serb which forced the temporary closure of two boundary crossings between Kosovo and Serbia.
Ireland's air traffic controllers threatened Wednesday to strike nationwide, a protest that could shut the country's three major airports and bar international flights from Irish airspace.
Thousands of opposition supporters marched through Armenia's capital Wednesday after an election official said complete results showed that the prime minister had won the presidential election.
Thousands of opposition supporters marched through Armenia's capital Wednesday after an election official said complete results showed that the prime minister had won the presidential election.
Germany will formally recognize Kosovo's independence and begin bilateral diplomatic relations, a spokesman for the German government said Wednesday.
The first high-speed trains linking Madrid and Barcelona arrived at their destinations Wednesday, the national train company Renfe said, making their first complete journeys after years of railway construction delays.
BNP Paribas SA confirmed Wednesday that fourth-quarter net profit plunged 42 percent due to write-downs of securities affected by the financial markets crisis.
A Dutch lawmaker wants an international boycott of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics to protest China's human rights record.
Police have recovered two of the four Impressionist paintings stolen earlier this month in a daring museum heist, police in Zurich, Switzerland said Tuesday.
German tax authorities are chasing as many as 1,000 wealthy Germans in one of the largest tax investigations in the country's history, spokesmen for the Ministry of Finance said Tuesday.
Angry Serbs torched checkpoints between Serbia and Kosovo and triggered explosions Tuesday to protest Kosovo's independence declaration and international recognition of the breakaway state.
The judge at the Princess Diana inquest is investigating whether Diana's former butler, Paul Burrell, lied on the stand after he was secretly recorded saying he "didn't tell the whole truth" in his testimony last month.
Natalia Bessmertnova, a Soviet-era prima ballerina who danced with the Bolshoi Ballet for decades, died Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the ballet said. She was 66.
The United States recognized the Balkan territory of Kosovo as "an independent and sovereign state" Monday, promising the infant republic's president that Washington "will be your partner and your friend."
The father of Princess Diana's boyfriend attacked the British Royal family Monday with a series of insults and accusations at the inquest looking into how the couple died.
An early version of a British dossier of prewar intelligence on Iraq did not include a key claim about weapons of mass destruction that became vital to Tony Blair's case for war, the newly published document showed Monday.
President Vladimir Putin's likely successor suggested in an interview published Monday that the British Council and foreign NGOs spy on Russia, echoing accusations that have strained ties between Moscow and the West -- in particular Britain.
A preliminary investigation has ruled out a mechanical defect as the cause of the British Airways Boeing 777 crash landing at Heathrow Airport last month.
An extremist who plotted to kidnap and behead a British soldier was sentenced to life in prison Monday by a judge who said he was a fanatic determined to carry out his violent plan.
Authorities investigating alleged tax evasion by Germans stashing money abroad mounted more raids on Monday in and around Munich and across the country in Hamburg, cities where several major businesses are based.
More than 1,000 police raided housing projects outside Paris early Monday, detaining over 30 people in a bid to find rioters who led an outburst of violence last year, police said.
Fireworks lit the skies and crowds filled the streets of Kosovo's capital Sunday after the territory's parliament declared independence from Serbia, a move backed by many Western governments, but which Serbia and Russia bitterly oppose.
Mohamed Al Fayed, the man who claims Queen Elizabeth II's husband ordered spies to kill his son and Princess Diana, is to take the stand at a coroner's inquest on Monday.
President Tassos Papadopoulos was eliminated Sunday in a cliff-hanger first round of Cyprus' presidential election -- a surprise result that could signal a renewed drive to end the island's decades-old division.
Kosovo will declare independence from Serbia on Sunday, Kosovar prime minister Hashim Thaci has said, according to agency reports.
Several dozen people protested outside a theater Saturday where a 104-year-old singer who once performed for Adolf Hitler took the stage in the Netherlands for the first time in four decades.
An 83-year-old former SS prison guard who was sentenced to life in prison in Italy for Nazi war crimes was jailed near Naples Saturday, hours after he was extradited from Canada.
Kosovo's prime minister vowed Friday that the rights of minorities will be protected after the province declares independence, but stopped short of naming a date for the announcement.
A lawyer for the French trader accused of massive fraud at Societe Generale said bank bosses "condoned" his client's trades, contradicting bank statements that the trader acted on his own.
President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday defended a plan to require 10-year-olds to honor child victims of the Holocaust, saying adults should not hide terrible truths from children.
Czech President Vaclav Klaus has been narrowly re-elected to a five-year term, officials said Friday.
An 83-year-old former SS prison guard who was sentenced to life in jail in Italy for Nazi war crimes was being extradited from Canada to Rome on Friday, officials said.
Claims that this year's Glastonbury music festival will be the last have been denied by a spokesperson.
The head of Germany's Deutsche Post submitted his resignation Friday, a Ministry of Finance spokesman said, a day after German police searched his offices as part of an investigation into reported tax fraud.
The chief executive of Deutsche Post AG tendered his resignation Friday in the wake of allegations that he evaded some $1.45 million in taxes through investments in the alpine nation of Liechtenstein, the Finance Ministry said.
OK, so the Swiss have invented a car that runs on land and underwater. But did they REALLY have to make it a convertible?
CNN's Alessio Vinci spent years reporting from the Balkans, and was Belgrade Bureau Chief from 1999 to 2001. Here he explains the background story of Kosovo's looming independence.
German police said Friday they suspect arson caused an overnight fire at a house inhabited by three Turkish families in southern Germany.
Serbia defiantly told the United Nations on Thursday that it will never allow Kosovo to become independent -- despite U.S. and European Union support for the province to make the move.
A British court says an Algerian-born pilot deserves compensation after being wrongly jailed on a U.S. warrant in the Sept. 11 attacks.
Russian President Vladimir Putin offered biting criticism Thursday of what he called European "double standards" and stood by his country's long-standing objection to Kosovo's plan to declare independence.
The ex-police chief who led a three-year British investigation into Princess Diana's death on Thursday denied trying to hide vital evidence about the Paris car crash.
Deutsche Post Chief Executive Klaus Zumwinkel is under investigation for suspected evasion of some euro1 million ($1.45 million) in taxes through investments in Liechtenstein, prosecutors said Thursday after questioning the executive.
A German museum has discovered that a painting believed to be by French impressionist Claude Monet is a forgery, an official said Thursday.
A compulsive gambler is suing a betting chain for losses of $4m because he was allowed to place bets after he asked to be barred.
A strong earthquake and an almost equally strong aftershock struck southern Greece just after midday Thursday, U.S. and Greek experts said.
Police arrested three Algerian men early Thursday in the northern Basque city of Vitoria on suspicion of promoting radical ideology among the Muslim community, the Basque regional government said in a statement.
Former Georgian opposition leader and billionaire businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili died of natural causes, British police said Thursday.
Out on DVD for Valentine's Day across Russia is a heartwarming drama about a man and a woman who love each other and their country -- and who bear an uncanny resemblance to Vladimir Putin and his wife, Lyudmila.
A Jordanian confessed in a plea agreement to co-founding a terrorist group, telling a court as his trial opened Wednesday that he participated in online discussions about setting up a training camp in Sudan.
Al Qaeda has begun an online propaganda campaign, targeting German-speaking Muslims with increasing amounts of terror-related content, German security officials have told CNN.
A man armed with a box cutter barricaded himself inside a day-care center in southern Italy on Wednesday with 11 children and a teacher, but police captured him hours later and all the hostages were released unhurt.
London police said Wednesday they had carried out one of Britain's largest simultaneous drug raids, using more than 500 officers to target suspects at more than 30 addresses in a massive pre-dawn operation.
Thousands of demonstrators marched through Athens and Thessaloniki on Wednesday to protest government social security reforms as a Greek general strike shut down schools, hospitals and all public services.
Newspapers across Europe Wednesday reprinted the controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed that sparked worldwide protests two years ago.
An opposition leader from the ex-Soviet republic of Georgia who was accused of plotting a coup last year has been found dead at his home south of London, police said Wednesday.
Georgian opposition billionaire businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili has died in his house outside London of a heart attack, his spokesman said Wednesday.
The province of Kosovo plans to declare its independence from Serbia within days, the province's prime minister said Wednesday.
Danish authorities said Tuesday they have arrested three people who allegedly were plotting a "terror-related assassination" of a cartoonist whose drawing of the Prophet Mohammed sparked rage in the Muslim world two years ago.
Averting what could have been another gas crisis across Europe, Russia and Ukraine have fixed a price on natural gas for 2008 while Kiev has promised to pay its 2007 gas debts.
France's new first lady said in an interview published Tuesday that despite her whirlwind romance with President Nicolas Sarkozy, she expects the marriage to last a lifetime.
Princess Diana's brother-in-law denied Tuesday during the British inquest into her death that he was in Paris directing a plot to kill her in 1997.
A high-pitched device used to combat anti-social behavior among young people has been called "unfair" by children's campaigners in England.
Danish authorities have arrested several people who allegedly were plotting a "terror-related assassination."
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