FIFA-BLATTER ZURICH — FIFA President Sepp Blatter has chaired an emergency meeting with continental soccer bodies Thursday while staying out of public view himself as world soccer is rocked...

European Union nations and legislators have reached an agreement in principle to create a strategic investment fund by the end of the summer that could generate up to 315 billion euros ($345 billion)...

Erasers are an ‘instrument of the devil’ and should be banned from classrooms, an education expert has warned. Guy Claxton, visiting professor of learning sciences at King’s...

FIFA-RAIDS ZURICH — Swiss federal prosecutors open criminal proceedings related to the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, throwing FIFA deeper into crisis only hours after seven...

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed doubts about European plans to destroy migrant smuggler boats and says the focus should be on saving lives at sea. Ban told reporters in Brussels...

After his surprise election victory, British Prime Minister David Cameron is laying out plans for government free of coalition compromises. Cameron says Wednesday's Queen's Speech will deliver a...

The Council of Europe says Ireland should make it illegal to hit children. Wednesday's ruling by the 47-nation council's social rights committee found that Ireland had "no explicit and effective...

The Vatican's secretary of state has called the Irish vote to legalize gay marriage a "defeat for humanity." Cardinal Pietro Parolin said he personally was saddened by the landslide decision, in...

TRAFFICKED BRIDES LONDON — Klara Balogova was 18, penniless and heavily pregnant when she rode thousands of miles from Slovakia to England to marry a man she had never met. He wanted her...

Reeling from punishment at the polls, Spain's ruling and main opposition parties prepared Tuesday for negotiations with anti-establishment newcomer groups in a bid to form regional power sharing...