Public transport workers in the Greek capital have walked off the job in a 24-hour strike, snarling traffic around Athens, while a doctors' strike has left hospitals functioning with emergency...

    Royalty means rarely having to mind the gap.   Britain's Prince Charles took a ride on the London subway Wednesday — for the first time in a quarter...

Germans are emptying fewer beer steins these days.   Consumption of the national beverage fell by 1.8 percent last year to the lowest level since West and East Germany reunified in...

Protesters from a Communist-back labor union forced their way into a government building Wednesday, and clashed with police who used tear gas to expel them.   At least one person was taken...

Spain's National Statistics Office says the country's economy shrank a worse-than-expected 0.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012 compared with the previous three-month period, reflecting...

F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said that “there are no second acts in American lives.” Hillary Clinton’s stunning (and, I trust, unfinished) career – from First Lady to United...

Penny-pinching by a band known for its onstage pyrotechnic displays may have cost more than 230 people their lives at a nightclub in southern Brazil, according to a police inspector leading the...

    A woman and her boyfriend have been arrested in the U.S. after police found an 8-year-old developmentally disabled girl locked in a wooden cage while the rest of the family went to...

Venice is seeking to break off cultural relations with St Petersburg because of the Russian city's legislation curbing gay rights.   The city council invoked Venice's "history,...

The story in the Daily Mirror features a photo of an elegant aging monarch with the headline: "Queen Gives Up Her Throne to Son."   Then, in smaller type, "Easy,...