The mayor of Rome is considering whether to stop using his bicycle to get around the city after local gangsters were heard in intercepted phone conversations saying that he needed to be driven from office or possibly even eliminated.
The British Museum plunged itself into a geopolitical tempest with the loan of one of the famous Elgin marbles of Greece to the Hermitage.
A policy had prohibited inmates from receiving books unless they had earned the right through good behavior to buy them through the Prison Service.
Local militants have claimed responsibility for an attack that killed 14 police officers and at least one civilian, easing concerns that the Islamic State had been involved.
Officials in Bosnia and neighboring Serbia cooperated to make the arrests in the torture and murder of about 20 people at a remote Bosnian rail depot.
Experts question whether the plans that the Continent has sketched out to achieve a 40 percent cut are strong enough to meet its goal.
New York Times journalists covering religion would like to hear from Catholics who have been divorced, and, in particular, from those who have remarried.
A Malaysia Airlines flight with nearly 300 people aboard crashed in eastern Ukraine near the Russian border on July 17.
Among the 298 people aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 were a renowned AIDS researcher, a Dutch senator and an Australian novelist.
World War I demolished empires and destroyed kings, kaisers and sultans. It introduced chemical weapons and aerial bombing. It brought women into the work force and hastened their legal right to vote.
Along the highway between Moscow and St. Petersburg — a 12-hour trip by car — one sees great neglected stretches of land that seem drawn backward in time.
The French defense minister said warships that France had agreed to sell to Russia might never be delivered, drawing a response from the Russian foreign minister.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia vowed that the country would stay on course with its values, independent foreign policy and economic goals, even as it faced sanctions from the West.
Amateur video shows gunfire and smoke in the Chechen capital of Grozny, where violence erupted hours before President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia gave his annual state of the nation address.
What snobs really think about the little gits and plebs.
In the Netherlands, Black Pete is meant to be dark with chimney soot, but he looks like the caricature of a slave.
The British politician revived the fortunes of the Liberal Party, but his career was destroyed by allegations of a murder conspiracy conceived to cover up a homosexual relationship.
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