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Toddler dies on flight from Germany to U.S.
A Lufthansa flight en route to New York diverted to Shannon Airport in Ireland after a 2-year-old girl died on the flight, Irish and airline officials said. The flight originated in Addis Ababa, E
UK bomb plotters lose appeal
A British appeals court on Wednesday upheld the convictions of four failed suicide bombers who were convicted last year of conspiring to murder passengers on London subway trains.
German police raid homes over 'jihadist' material
German police conducted a series of raids across the country Wednesday as part of their investigation into nine citizens suspected of systematically trying to convert others to radical Islam. Anton
Eastwood to headline less starry Cannes
American directors Clint Eastwood and Steven Soderbergh are to headline the streamlined competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival, which features fewer big-name directors and more emerging voi
Did Elvis come to England after all?
The King in England? Maybe so. For decades Elvis Presley's English fans have accepted that the King of Rock and Roll's only known visit to Britain was a quick stop at Glasgow Prestwick Airport in Sc
UK fraud agency fights court ruling on BAE probe
Britain's Serious Fraud Office said Tuesday that it plans to appeal a High Court ruling that the agency acted unlawfully when it ended a corruption inquiry into a lucrative arms deal between Saudi A
UK lords to rule on Saudi arms case
Britain's Serious Fraud Office can go to the highest court of appeal over a ruling that it acted unlawfully when it abandoned a corruption inquiry involving a lucrative arms deal with Saudi Arabia,
Georgia denounces Russian 'harassment'
Former Soviet state Georgia Wednesday accused Moscow of "harassment" for allegedly shooting down of one its spy planes, escalating tensions between the two countries ahead of a U.N. Securi
Iceland fuel protests heat up
The shaky video shows Icelandic police repelling protestors with riot shields and batons.
Bond stuntman injured in chase crash
A stuntman was seriously injured in a car crash while filming an action sequence for the new James Bond movie on a famously winding lakeside road in northern Italy, a local official said Thursday.
Exhumed body of saint goes on display
The body of Padre Pio, a hugely popular 20th century Italian saint, went on public display Thursday in a southern Italian town where thousands gathered to pray.
Bond stuntmen stable after crash
Two stuntmen filming a scene for the new James Bond movie were recovering Friday after they were involved in an accident on the shores of Italy's Lake Garda, a spokeswoman for the production company
Media curbs likely after Putin divorce report
Russia's lower house of parliament voted Friday to widen the definition of slander and libel and give regulators the authority to shut down media outlets found guilty of publishing such material.
Food price rise 'global crisis,' says U.N. chief
The U.N. secretary-general sounded a warning about rocketing food prices on Friday, saying the problem has developed into a "real global crisis."
Bank scandal French trader gets new job
He was tied this year to one of the largest securities scandals in history and faces charges ranging from forgery to unauthorized computer use, yet the former trader at French bank Societe Generale
Drug plane crashes at Spanish banker's estate
Police are investigating a small plane loaded with drugs that crashed Friday at the estate of one of the country's most prominent bankers, killing two people on board, an Interior Ministry represent
UK motorists urged not to hoard fuel
The British government on Saturday urged drivers not to hoard gasoline, saying there was plenty to go around despite a looming strike at a Scottish oil refinery that has raised fears of fuel rationi
Host of British surreal radio game show dies
Jazz trumpeter and broadcaster Humphrey Lyttelton, host of the surreal British radio game show "I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue," died Friday at the age of 86.
Russian rocket launches future GPS rival
An experimental satellite for a much-delayed European Union rival to the United States' GPS navigation system blasted into orbit Sunday after a successful launch atop a Russian rocket, the Russian a
BP closes UK pipeline as workers strike
Hundreds of workers at Scotland's only oil refinery began a 48-hour strike on Sunday, forcing BP to shut a pipeline system that delivers almost a third of Britain's North Sea oil.
Captive woman 'had 7 children by father'
Police have found a woman missing since 1984, who told authorities that her father had kept her in a cellar for almost 24 years and that she had given birth to seven children after being repeatedly
Indian billionaire tops British rich list
The collective wealth of Britain's 1,000 richest people went up by nearly 15 percent last year, and more than half the country's 75 billionaires are foreign-born, according to a list published by th
Vote to save Berlin airport fails
A referendum attempting to save historic Tempelhof airport -- the Cold War-era hub of the Berlin Airlift -- failed on Sunday.
Police: Captive had at least 6 children by her father
Austrian police believe a 73-year-old man held his daughter captive in his cellar for the past two decades and fathered at least six children with her, according to police and state-run news reports
Gas company helicopter crash kills 19
A Ukrainian official says a Mi-8 helicopter has crashed into the Black Sea killing 19 people. A spokesman for state gas company Naftogaz spokesman says the company copter went down around 0630 GMT a
