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...

Gunmen tried to assassinate Libya's internationally recognized prime minister on his way to the airport in the eastern city of Tobruk on Tuesday, a spokesman for his government...

EU officials are welcoming a French-German push for closer cooperation among the countries that use the euro, while British Prime Minister David Cameron's office says that won't derail his mission to...

The head of the International Organization for Migration is urging the European Union to accept far more asylum seekers than the 20,000 planned under an EU scheme to resettle people in need of...

More than 750 people have died in southern India since the middle of April as soaring summer temperatures scorch the country, officials said Tuesday. The southeastern states of Andhra Pradesh and...