Obama, Merkel pledge to cooperate on Libya, economy

For two allies passing through rocky times, the leaders of the United States and Germany on Tuesday put on a show of unity at the White...

Tennis star may bring shine back to Serbia's tarnished reputation

He's everything his country wants to be: confident, successful, comfortable in his own skin and able, at last, to put a violent past...

Boat carrying migrants from Libya capsizes; 200 feared dead

At least 200 migrants, mostly sub-Saharan Africans and South Asians, were missing and feared drowned after an overcrowded boat that left...

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A deadly outbreak of food-borne illness in Europe is being caused by an unusually virulent strain of E. coli that scientists haven'...

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E. coli outbreak">Germany wrestles with deadly E. coli outbreak

Germany scrambled Wednesday to pinpoint the source of a deadly outbreak of food-borne bacterial infections that has killed at least 16...

Ratko Mladic extradited from Serbia to face war crimes charges

The man accused of overseeing the worst massacre of civilians in Europe since World War II was flown to The Hague on Tuesday for trial after...

Crime casts long shadow over Athens

Manolis Kandaris' wife was in labor and he wanted to get her to a hospital, fast. So he reached for the car keys, fetched the video camera...

Ultranationalist Serbs protest Mladic's arrest

Thousands of supporters of war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic rallied Sunday to protest the arrest of the man whom they revere as a national...

Q&A: Taking on Russian corruption

Moscow lawyer and blogger Alexei Navalny has been singlehandedly taking on Russia's state-controlled energy giants, accusing them of large-...

Record-keeping Ratko Mladic's own words may help convict the former Bosnian Serb commander

If Ratko Mladic is extradited on charges of mass murder, as even he now seems to believe is inevitable, his own words may come back to haunt...

Speeding bus hits 6 during Stockholm Marathon

A bus raced out of control down a set of steps and into a busy square during the Stockholm Marathon on Saturday, injuring six people and...

Serbian youths hope to finally shake off bitter legacy

Jovana Vujcic is too young to remember the war that ravaged the Balkans in the early 1990s but old enough now to experience its baleful...

World leaders pledge $40 billion to bolster 'Arab Spring'

World leaders vowed to put more money behind emerging democratic governments in North Africa, announcing plans for $40 billion in aid and...

War crimes suspect Ratko Mladic can be extradited, judge rules

A judge ruled Friday that captured war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic is fit for extradition to The Hague to face charges of genocide and...

Ratko Mladic's arrest a milestone for Serbia

The arrest of Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general accused of overseeing Europe's worst massacre since World War II, is a milestone in...

Obama presses for Egypt, Tunisia aid at G-8 summit

President Obama pressed world powers at an international summit Thursday to swiftly aid the stricken economies of Egypt and Tunisia, but...

Ratko Mladic is viewed as a world-class war criminal

Shortly before the slaughter, Gen. Ratko Mladic patted the boys on their heads and offered them candy. He told the adults being herded in...

Alleged CIA operative criticizes 'extraordinary rendition' of Muslim cleric

It stands among the most public American foul-ups in the war on terrorism: A 2003 CIA operation to snatch an Islamic cleric from the streets...

Passage of time may be in Ratko Mladic's favor

Witnesses die. Memories fade. Victims move on with their lives, leaving no forwarding addresses.

Georgian police crush antigovernment protest

Georgian police early Thursday violently dispersed an antigovernment rally in Tbilisi, crushing protesters' attempts to prevent a military...