Europe

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin climbed into a firefighting plane Tuesday and dumped water on two of the hundreds of wildfires sweeping through western Russia and cloaking Moscow in a suffocating smog.

These eerie pictures show the city of Moscow shrouded in dense smog today as wildfires that have killed 50 people nationwide continue to burn. Flights at international airports have been grounded and visibility in the capital is down to a few doze...

Footage of French police using apparently excessive force while breaking up an immigrant squat has prompted outrage as activists and intellectuals accuse Nicolas Sarkozy of pursuing policies that target the vulnerable while giving free reign to th...

Police warnings about the dangers of holding the Love Parade in the German city of Duisburg were not heeded, the police union chief said with the nation in shock over 19 deaths in a stampede at the event.

Dutch police are to use "decoy Jews", by dressing law enforcers in Jewish religious dress such as skullcaps, in an effort to catch anti-Semitic attackers.

A World War Two bomb found in central Germany exploded on Tuesday, killing three people, as disposal experts were about to defuse it, local authorities said.

Iceland’s lesbian minister of social affairs was expected to be chosen as the country’s caretaker prime minister later this week, making her the word’s first known openly gay head of state.

LONDON (Reuters) - Jordanian and Egyptian riot police cracked down on Friday on protesters demanding an end to Israel's attacks on Gaza and to ties with the Jewish state.

Police found a bundle of dynamite in one of Paris's best-known department stores yesterday after a warning letter from a group threatening to attack stores if French soldiers are not withdrawn from Afghanistan.

A group of international dignitaries have launched a new campaign in Paris to eliminate nuclear weapons. Global Zero consists of 100 leading figures seeking practical steps towards nuclear abolition and gaining public support for that goal.