Europe is grappling with great challenges – too great for any one country to address. Facing economic crisis, widespread unemployment and rising competition from developing economies, Europe...

At the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos last month, leading participants called for a rapid shift to cleaner energy to tackle climate change.   There is something...

Italy's president is consulting with political party leaders to determine if Democratic Party leader Matteo Renzi has enough support to form a new government.   Giorgio Napolitano...

A former chief of Libya's army called for the country's parliament and government to be suspended in an unusual video message Friday that many derided as a futile attempt to declare...

Premier Enrico Letta drove himself to the Italian president's palace to resign Friday after he was sacked by his own party in a back-room mutiny meant to catapult the dynamic young mayor of...

Belgian lawmakers voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to extend the country's euthanasia law to children under 18.   The law empowers children with terminal ailments who are in great pain...

Italian Premier Enrico Letta faced a new challenge to his leadership Thursday as the head of his own party tried to orchestrate a power grab.   Florence Mayor Matteo Renzi called a...

Police in southern China said Thursday they had raided more than 18,000 entertainment venues in a southern province in the wake of a high-profile state media expose of the sex trade in a city known as...

Britain's weather service says it sees the tentacles of climate change in a spate of storms and floods battering the country, but has stopped short of saying warming directly caused the extreme...

Syrian warplanes pounded a rebel-held town near the Lebanese border on Wednesday, activists said, in an apparent attempt to dislodge opposition fighters from the area and consolidate control over the...