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A two-year-old rottweiler has been hailed as hero, after he chased off an Iranian illegal immigrant who had sexually assaulted a young woman in a park in the UK.
A new Turkish law makes it a criminal offence for a woman to go abroad and get pregnant via artificial insemination.
70 bodies of victims, killed by Nazis, found in mass graves under Austrian football pitch
Two mass graves containing about 70 bodies of people killed by the Nazis during the Second World War have been discovered underneath a football pitch belonging to the Austrian army in the southern city of Graz, Austrian government officials said o...
Seven Muslims were detained today in towns of Waterford and Cork, in south of Ireland, for allegedly planning a plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who depicted the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy's & wife's marriage in crisis, rumours say both having affairs
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy are both rumoured to have affairs, French media reports say.
A total of about 50 ships, including a passenger ferry with nearly 1,000 people on board, were stuck Friday in ice, after gale-force winds built up large ice masses in the Baltic Sea off Sweden's east coast, officials said.
Vatican rocked by usher's gay sex scandal
One of Pope Benedict's ceremonial ushers and a member of an elite choir in the Vatican's St Peter's Basilica have allegedly been involved in an organized network of gay prostitution.
32 Thai labourers were arrested in Poland for working illegally, a Thai foreign ministry official said Thursday. The labourers were lured by a job recruitment firm to Poland with a promise of jobs at mushroom farms, but instead were sent to work i...
A recent opinion poll shows more than half of voters in four other major European countries back an initiative by French Prime Minister Nicolas Sarkozy to ban women from wearing the burka in public places.
Russia is planning to build a new strategic bomber, as part of the country's military modernization program, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday.
Facebook partygoers trash UK home
Merseyside police are investigating after some 50 young hooligans trashed a house during a party which had been advertised on the social networking site Facebook.
Concorde trial starts in France 10 years after crash
PONTOISE, France - Continental Airlines and five men went on trial on Tuesday for their alleged role in the crash of an Air France Concorde that killed 113 people in 2000 and brought an end to an era of luxury supersonic travel.
France refuses a citizenship over full Islamic veil
The French government has refused to grant citizenship to a foreign national on the grounds that he forced his wife to wear the full Islamic veil.
Europe Feels Snubbed as Obama Cancels Trip
PARIS — President Obama’s decision to skip a United States-European Union summit meeting scheduled for Madrid in May has predictably upset European officials, who suggested Tuesday that the summit meeting itself would now be postponed, possibly to...
Ukraine's Tymoshenko revels as rival shuns TV clash
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's Yulia Tymoshenko relished a solo performance on television on Monday, heaping insults on arch foe Viktor Yanukovich after he shunned a prime-time debate with her ahead of a presidential run-off on February 7.
U.N.'s Ban says Cyprus leaders must do more for deal
NICOSIA (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said on Monday leaders of divided Cyprus must make more effort if a peace deal is to be successfully concluded and that both had pledged to work on a deal as soon as possible.
Official: Russia tests 5th-generation fighter jet
Russia's new fifth-generation stealth fighter made a successful maiden test flight on Friday, the manufacturer said.
11 die in Belgian apartment building collapse
LIEGE, Belgium — Searchers pulled two more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed apartment block Friday, raising to 11 the death toll from what is believed to have been a gas explosion.
Former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin acquitted in slander case
French judges on Thursday acquitted former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin on charges of conspiring in a campaign to slander French President Nicolas Sarkozy and prevent his victory in the 2007 presidential election.
Northern Ireland parties given 48-hour deadline to to reach power-sharing deal
The British and Irish governments gave Northern Ireland's bickering parties until Friday to agree a way forward on a key power-sharing dispute after three days of talks failed to clinch a deal.