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Driver wearing Islamic face veil fined in France
A woman driver wearing an Islamic face veil has been fined by French police for not having a clear field of vision. The fine was small, but it garnered big attention Friday and may illustrate what is to come as the president pushes to outlaw the v...
The killing of two senior leaders of al-Qaeda by Iraqi and U.S. forces struck a devastating blow to the terrorist group, U.S. officials said.
Pope Benedict XVI shed tears on Sunday as he met victims of clerical sex abuse in Malta, expressing his "shame and sorrow" and promising "effective measures" to protect young people in future.
On Thursday, at least 5,000 flights across Europe have been canceled and will continue to be banned in most part of northern Europe on Friday due to the drifting ash from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland.
Polish MP Artur Gorski claims the Russian government intervened in the landing of the Polish president's plane to prevent him from attending a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre, causing the aircraft to crash.
British atheist activists planning to have Pope Benedict XVI arrested during his UK visit
British atheist campaigners are planning to file a legal complaint with the Crown Prosecution Service in order to have Pope Benedict XVI arrested during his state visit to Britain this coming September “for crimes against humanity”.
Poland's President Lech Kaczynski and dozens of senior Polish officials were killed along with 97 other people on board when the presidential jet crashed in heavy fog in western Russia on Saturday morning.
Robbers equipped with a pneumatic drill dug a tunnel from a Paris subway station into the basement of a bank early Sunday, but left with empty hands, French police said.
Abuse hotline launched by German Catholic Church collapse on first day as 4,000 people call in
An abuse hotline launched by the German Catholic Church collapsed on Friday, on its first day of operation, as 4,000 callers were trying to contact claiming they had been abused by paedophile and violent priests and were seeking counselling and ad...
A Belgian parliamentary committee on Wednesday agreed to ban the wearing of face-covering veils in public. The full parlamentary vote in the matter will take place later this month.
Several million euros in cash and jewellery were stolen Saturday night after a gang of four men tunnelled into the vaults of a Parisian bank and cracked almost 200 private safes.
At least 37 people were killed and 62 injured on Monday when two female suicide bombers detonated explosives on two crowded subway trains during the morning rush hour in Russia's capital, Moscow.
Switzerland's President Doris Leuthard urged on Sunday to establish a central register of paedophile priests, to prevent them from getting in touch with children again, as Swiss police are investigating allegations that children were harmed by Cat...
A Welsh man might face custodial sentence after pleading guilty to possession of a six-second video clip described as "extreme porn" by prosecutors.
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 Huddersfield man stabbed his ex-lover's mother to death as a revenge aimed at his ex-partner, left a message in blood behind and then lept to his death from a car park.