Thousands of Italians marched through Rome on Saturday to protest against austerity, with union leaders calling on the new government to focus on creating jobs. Italy is stuck in its longest recession since quarterly records began in 1970.
British detectives said Friday they had identified "people of interest" in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, who went missing in Portugal in 2007, days before her fourth birthday.
Newly-minted Russian citizen and French actor Gérard Depardieu told a Russian daily Saturday that President Vladimir Putin was “like Pope John Paul II” and a man “trying to return (…) dignity to the people”.
Turkey's parliament is reviewing a bill that would restrict alcohol sales, including banning purchases at educational, sports and health institutions. The bill has the beverage industry worried, including Diageo, owner of Turkey’s leading raki brand.
An interview by two FRANCE24 journalists with a Polish priest who is being investigated for alleged child abuse ended in a violent confrontation on Sunday. The video has sparked outrage in deeply Catholic Poland.
Queens Park Rangers' French striker Loïc Rémy, 26, has been arrested on suspicion of rape along with two other men, media reports said Wednesday. A 34-year-old woman told police the three men raped her in west London on May 6.
Turkish opposition leaders accused Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of pursuing a flawed Syria policy that has cost Turkish lives following a deadly twin bombing last week as Erdoğan headed to Washington Wednesday for talks on the Syria crisis.
A new book detailing the early political life of Angela Merkel has accused the austerity-driven German chancellor of working as a propagandist for the East German Communist youth movement before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Russia on Tuesday expelled a US diplomat after saying authorities had caught him carrying disguises, special equipment, and instructions for recruiting an informant.
Western countries should try to come to terms with edible insects, which can help feed a growing world population and ease the burden on overstretched resources, a United Nations report published on Monday said.
