Two cranes employed to restore a bridge in the central Dutch town of Alphen aan den Rijn have collapsed on buildings, injuring at least 20 people, media say. Amateur video showed one crane trying...

The Independent Police Complaints Commission is to investigate Wiltshire Police's handling of an alleged claim of child sexual abuse made about former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath. The probe...

Authorities say a Moroccan man has died from suffocation while being smuggled by his brother into Spain inside a suitcase that was in the trunk of a car on a ferry crossing. Francisco...

India has ordered Internet service providers to block access to more than 850 adult websites in what the government describes as a way to protect social decency. N.N. Kaul, a spokesman for...

German authorities say the number of immigrants living in the country reached 10.9 million last year — a million more than three years earlier, and the highest figure since they started...

A Shanghai man's lower leg has been amputated after becoming trapped in a mall escalator, the third serious escalator-related accident in China in a week. A few days ago, a similar...

The Saudi king's visit to his family's French Riviera mansion is over after weeks of controversy surrounding the closure of a public beach during his stay, the top state official in the area said on...

CANADA-ELECTION TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper triggers an election campaign and sets the vote for Oct. 19, when Harper and his Conservative party hope to earn a fourth...

Zimbabwe has accused a Pennsylvania doctor of illegally killing a lion in April, as it seeks to extradite a Minnesota dentist who killed a well-known lion named Cecil in July. Jan Casimir Seski...

A 9-year-old bat boy has died after he was accidentally hit in the head during a lower tier National Baseball Congress World Series game in Kansas. The Wichita Eagle says that the general manager...