Italian police carried out a "historic" sweep against mafia clans in Palermo and Tuscany early on Tuesday, making around 100 arrests, authorities said.

An earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale hit southern Sweden early Tuesday, the Seismological Institute at Uppsala University said, but no damage was immediately reported.

An Irish government minister who had just finished his morning swim was caught up in an armed robbery Monday at a golf resort hotel, officials said.

A group of about 200 Turkish intellectuals on Monday issued an apology on the Internet for the World War I-era massacres of Armenians in Turkey.

A Russian court has found seven youths guilty of 20 racially-motivated murders and 12 attempted murders, mostly of people from Central Asia and Caucasians region, and sentenced them for up to 20 years in prison.

German police said the discovery of five World War II-era bombs in the eastern city of Potsdam forced state legislators to cut short their final session of the year.

Russia could lease 'several' 'Shchuka-B' class nuclear attack submarines to India in coming years, a top official here said though the delivery of the first of the two nuke subs reportedly contracted by India is far behind schedule.

A convicted serial killer in Sweden has withdrawn his confessions for eight murders and his lawyer says he will seek a retrial in each case.

Small bands of Greek rioters hurling firebombs attacked an environment ministry building, shops and banks in Athens during an eighth day of protests following the killing of a teenager by police.