Greenpeace activists occupied a French nuclear power plant site before dawn Monday — a media stunt deeply embarrassing to the government which is intent on demonstrating that France's...

Sirens blaring, striking municipal police officers brought traffic to a standstill across central Athens Monday.   As part of a protest against government cuts, the officers parked their...

Abandoning the traditional Sunday greeting to crowds in St. Peter's Square for a day, Pope Francis opted for an informal front-door encounter with residents in a hill town outside Rome that hosts...

A leading Italian senator has been chastised by Premier Enrico Letta for likening the country's first black Cabinet minister to an orangutan, the latest high-profile racist episode in a nation...

Cory Monteith, the handsome young actor who shot to fame in the hit TV series "Glee" but was beset by addiction struggles so fierce that he once said he was lucky to be alive, was found dead...

A spokesman says an ambush has killed seven United Nations peacekeepers in the deadliest ever single attack on the international force in Sudan's Darfur region.   UN forces spokesman...

Hundreds of police reinforcements from Britain were deployed on Belfast's rubble-strewn streets Saturday after Protestant riots over a blocked march left 32 officers, a senior lawmaker and at...

Eighteen people are dead after a truck carrying stones used for pavement ran into a passenger bus in an outlying area of Moscow.   The Emergency Services Ministry says in a statement that 25...

An unattached rail joint may have caused a train derailment in France during a busy holiday weekend that left six dead, rail officials said Saturday. Nearly 200 people were injured and nine remained...

Edward Snowden plans to seek asylum in Russia, a Parliament member who was among those meeting with the NSA leaker said Friday.   Duma member Vyacheslav Nikonov told reporters of...