The chief prosecutor in Munich says tax investigators and prosecutors have conducted a series of raids in and around the city, part of a wider investigation of hundreds of Germans who have allegedly tried to evade taxes by funneling them into other countries.
The U.N. Security Council will meet Monday to discuss Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia amid bitter divisions over the future of the Balkan territory.
Fireworks lit the skies and crowds filled the streets of Kosovo's capital Sunday after the territory's parliament declared independence from Serbia, a move backed by many Western governments, but which Serbia and Russia bitterly oppose.
Mohamed Al Fayed, the man who claims Queen Elizabeth II's husband ordered spies to kill his son and Princess Diana, is to take the stand at a coroner's inquest on Monday.
President Tassos Papadopoulos was eliminated Sunday in a cliff-hanger first round of Cyprus' presidential election -- a surprise result that could signal a renewed drive to end the island's decades-old division.
Kosovo will declare independence from Serbia on Sunday, Kosovar prime minister Hashim Thaci has said, according to agency reports.
Several dozen people protested outside a theater Saturday where a 104-year-old singer who once performed for Adolf Hitler took the stage in the Netherlands for the first time in four decades.
An 83-year-old former SS prison guard who was sentenced to life in prison in Italy for Nazi war crimes was jailed near Naples Saturday, hours after he was extradited from Canada.
Kosovo's prime minister vowed Friday that the rights of minorities will be protected after the province declares independence, but stopped short of naming a date for the announcement.
A lawyer for the French trader accused of massive fraud at Societe Generale said bank bosses "condoned" his client's trades, contradicting bank statements that the trader acted on his own.
The chief prosecutor in Munich says tax investigators and prosecutors have conducted a series of raids in and around the city, part of a wider investigation of hundreds of Germans who have allegedly tried to evade taxes by funneling them into other countries.
The U.N. Security Council will meet Monday to discuss Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia amid bitter divisions over the future of the Balkan territory.
Fireworks lit the skies and crowds filled the streets of Kosovo's capital Sunday after the territory's parliament declared independence from Serbia, a move backed by many Western governments, but which Serbia and Russia bitterly oppose.
Mohamed Al Fayed, the man who claims Queen Elizabeth II's husband ordered spies to kill his son and Princess Diana, is to take the stand at a coroner's inquest on Monday.
President Tassos Papadopoulos was eliminated Sunday in a cliff-hanger first round of Cyprus' presidential election -- a surprise result that could signal a renewed drive to end the island's decades-old division.
Kosovo will declare independence from Serbia on Sunday, Kosovar prime minister Hashim Thaci has said, according to agency reports.
Several dozen people protested outside a theater Saturday where a 104-year-old singer who once performed for Adolf Hitler took the stage in the Netherlands for the first time in four decades.
An 83-year-old former SS prison guard who was sentenced to life in prison in Italy for Nazi war crimes was jailed near Naples Saturday, hours after he was extradited from Canada.
Kosovo's prime minister vowed Friday that the rights of minorities will be protected after the province declares independence, but stopped short of naming a date for the announcement.
A lawyer for the French trader accused of massive fraud at Societe Generale said bank bosses "condoned" his client's trades, contradicting bank statements that the trader acted on his own.
One brief window of opportunity when all the elements align themselves. The light, the look - it all comes together.
President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday defended a plan to require 10-year-olds to honor child victims of the Holocaust, saying adults should not hide terrible truths from children.
Czech President Vaclav Klaus has been narrowly re-elected to a five-year term, officials said Friday.
An 83-year-old former SS prison guard who was sentenced to life in jail in Italy for Nazi war crimes was being extradited from Canada to Rome on Friday, officials said.
Claims that this year's Glastonbury music festival will be the last have been denied by a spokesperson.
The head of Germany's Deutsche Post submitted his resignation Friday, a Ministry of Finance spokesman said, a day after German police searched his offices as part of an investigation into reported tax fraud.
The chief executive of Deutsche Post AG tendered his resignation Friday in the wake of allegations that he evaded some $1.45 million in taxes through investments in the alpine nation of Liechtenstein, the Finance Ministry said.
OK, so the Swiss have invented a car that runs on land and underwater. But did they REALLY have to make it a convertible?
CNN's Alessio Vinci spent years reporting from the Balkans, and was Belgrade Bureau Chief from 1999 to 2001. Here he explains the background story of Kosovo's looming independence.
German police said Friday they suspect arson caused an overnight fire at a house inhabited by three Turkish families in southern Germany.
Serbia defiantly told the United Nations on Thursday that it will never allow Kosovo to become independent -- despite U.S. and European Union support for the province to make the move.
A British court says an Algerian-born pilot deserves compensation after being wrongly jailed on a U.S. warrant in the Sept. 11 attacks.
Russian President Vladimir Putin offered biting criticism Thursday of what he called European "double standards" and stood by his country's long-standing objection to Kosovo's plan to declare independence.
The ex-police chief who led a three-year British investigation into Princess Diana's death on Thursday denied trying to hide vital evidence about the Paris car crash.
Deutsche Post Chief Executive Klaus Zumwinkel is under investigation for suspected evasion of some euro1 million ($1.45 million) in taxes through investments in Liechtenstein, prosecutors said Thursday after questioning the executive.
A German museum has discovered that a painting believed to be by French impressionist Claude Monet is a forgery, an official said Thursday.
A compulsive gambler is suing a betting chain for losses of $4m because he was allowed to place bets after he asked to be barred.
A strong earthquake and an almost equally strong aftershock struck southern Greece just after midday Thursday, U.S. and Greek experts said.
Police arrested three Algerian men early Thursday in the northern Basque city of Vitoria on suspicion of promoting radical ideology among the Muslim community, the Basque regional government said in a statement.
Former Georgian opposition leader and billionaire businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili died of natural causes, British police said Thursday.
Out on DVD for Valentine's Day across Russia is a heartwarming drama about a man and a woman who love each other and their country -- and who bear an uncanny resemblance to Vladimir Putin and his wife, Lyudmila.
A Jordanian confessed in a plea agreement to co-founding a terrorist group, telling a court as his trial opened Wednesday that he participated in online discussions about setting up a training camp in Sudan.
Al Qaeda has begun an online propaganda campaign, targeting German-speaking Muslims with increasing amounts of terror-related content, German security officials have told CNN.
A man armed with a box cutter barricaded himself inside a day-care center in southern Italy on Wednesday with 11 children and a teacher, but police captured him hours later and all the hostages were released unhurt.
London police said Wednesday they had carried out one of Britain's largest simultaneous drug raids, using more than 500 officers to target suspects at more than 30 addresses in a massive pre-dawn operation.
Thousands of demonstrators marched through Athens and Thessaloniki on Wednesday to protest government social security reforms as a Greek general strike shut down schools, hospitals and all public services.
Newspapers across Europe Wednesday reprinted the controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed that sparked worldwide protests two years ago.
An opposition leader from the ex-Soviet republic of Georgia who was accused of plotting a coup last year has been found dead at his home south of London, police said Wednesday.
Georgian opposition billionaire businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili has died in his house outside London of a heart attack, his spokesman said Wednesday.
The province of Kosovo plans to declare its independence from Serbia within days, the province's prime minister said Wednesday.
Danish authorities said Tuesday they have arrested three people who allegedly were plotting a "terror-related assassination" of a cartoonist whose drawing of the Prophet Mohammed sparked rage in the Muslim world two years ago.
Averting what could have been another gas crisis across Europe, Russia and Ukraine have fixed a price on natural gas for 2008 while Kiev has promised to pay its 2007 gas debts.
France's new first lady said in an interview published Tuesday that despite her whirlwind romance with President Nicolas Sarkozy, she expects the marriage to last a lifetime.
Princess Diana's brother-in-law denied Tuesday during the British inquest into her death that he was in Paris directing a plot to kill her in 1997.
Britain's former ambassador in Paris denies he ordered the body of the Princess of Wales to be embalmed, allegedly to cover up a pregnancy.
A high-pitched device used to combat anti-social behavior among young people has been called "unfair" by children's campaigners in England.
A Swedish appeals court has fined a kennel owner $3,100 (20,000 kronor) for refusing to sell a puppy to a woman because she is a lesbian, the state news agency said.
Danish authorities have arrested several people who allegedly were plotting a "terror-related assassination."
The head of the Anglican Church has moved to defuse the row he sparked by suggesting that that some aspects of Muslim Sharia law could become part of UK law.
A European Union official said Monday it is "likely" the union will authorize a "security and justice" force for Kosovo this week, ahead of an expected declaration of independence by the state's newly elected leader.
Nine Turks who died in a fire in Germany were buried in Turkey Monday and officials of both countries called for restraint after speculation that the blaze was a racially motivated attack.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has urged European nations to commit more troops to help fight extremism in Afghanistan or risk the survival of the NATO alliance.
An apparent false alarm early Sunday triggered a massive air-sea rescue operation to evacuate over 500 workers from an oil rig in the North Sea, police and the British coast guard said.
Firefighters dug through the wreckage of London's famed Camden market Sunday trying to determine what sparked a massive blaze that damaged the market and area buildings.
A large fire tore through London's famed Camden Market Saturday night, sending huge flames and clouds of smoke above the city skyline and forcing evacuations, authorities said.
A man who served as a driver for Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams secretly worked as a British spy, a party official said Saturday.
Turkey's parliament has passed a constitutional amendment that would end a ban on Islamic headscarves at universities, despite public protests.
The head of the Anglican Church has tried to damp down controversy surrounding comments he made suggesting that some aspects of Muslim Sharia law could become part of British law.
Turkey's parliament has amended the constitution, lifting a decades-old ban on Islamic head scarves at the country's universities, despite fierce opposition from the secular establishment.
Turkey's government is expected to lift a decades-old ban on Islamic head scarves in universities on Saturday in a significant victory against the secular establishment.
Eleven residents of an Austrian retirement home were killed in a fire at the facility in the western town of Egg, Bregenz State Press official Thomas Meyer told CNN Friday.
The UK's leading Christian leader has drawn fierce government criticism after he suggested that Islamic -- or Sharia -- law be used to resolve financial and domestic issues between UK Muslims.
A Moroccan terror suspect held in Britain was extradited Friday to Spain, where he faces possible charges of conspiracy in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and membership in a terrorist group, a Spanish court source told CNN.
A Norwegian branch of the German Siemens AG group on Friday said it is prepared to fight a defense corruption fine assessed by the economic crime police rather than live with a fraud conviction.
An inquest was opening Friday into the death of a man whose body lay in his apartment for years while another resident continued to live there.
Russian President Vladimir Putin complained Friday about "one-way" Western military demands and promised that Russia will respond to U.S. and NATO military expansion near its borders.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged over $700 million in aid Friday for his country's beleagured suburbs -- hotbeds of disaffection and unrest that have twice exploded into rioting in recent years.
A Spanish judge Friday suspended two leftist Basque political parties for their links to armed Basque separatist group ETA, barring their candidates from parliamentary elections next month, according to court documents seen by CNN.
The archbishop of Canterbury has called for a limited application of Islamic law in Britain. Muslims praised the proposal but the government rejected it.
Investigators in southwest Germany are continuing to search the ruins of a building where nine people, including five children, were killed in a weekend fire.
Britain's Home Office has signed an extradition order that will send accused terrorist Abu Hamza al-Masri to the United States for prosecution, CNN has confirmed.
British house hunters examining a prospective property found an unwelcome surprise in the main bedroom -- the owner's body hanging from a belt in the walk-in cupboard.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to announce a $1.46 billion (€1 billion) plan on Friday designed to revitalize suburbs of Paris plagued by low-income and high-unemployment.
Greek Orthodox bishops Thursday elected Bishop Ieronymos of Thebes as church's successor to Archbishop Christodoulos, who died last week.
Turkey's parliament is poised to approve a law allowing properties confiscated by the state to be returned to Christian and Jewish minority foundations.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates plans to press European allies to contribute more to the fight in Afghanistan during two days of informal NATO meetings that began Thursday in the Lithuanian capital.
Kamil Kaplan faced a horrifying decision as flames engulfed his apartment building: Does he drop his 9-month-old nephew four stories to a policeman or hope the baby boy survives the suffocating smoke?
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday the military challenge in Afghanistan is sorely testing the NATO alliance and allied governments should be straightforward in telling their citizens that the fight against the Taliban and al Qaeda-linked militants will be long and difficult.
The British military said Wednesday it will no longer use goats in experiments to gauge the risks of evacuating a submerged submarine.
Police have refused to rule out arson as the cause of a blaze that killed at least nine people - including five children -- at a southwest Germany apartment building Sunday.
Seven doctors and pharmacists went on trial Wednesday for the deaths of more than 100 young people who contracted a brain-destroying disease after being treated with tainted human growth hormones.
A Spanish judge Wednesday indicted 40 current or former Rwandan military officers for several counts of genocide and human rights abuses during the 1990s when several million Rwandans died or disappeared.
Unable to form a new government, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano dissolved parliament Wednesday, paving the way for new elections that could see a return to power by former premier Silvio Berlusconi.
Italy's president dissolved parliament on Wednesday, clearing the way for early elections, only two years after the last parliamentary vote.
I know, news of yet another Italian political crisis is not very exciting, certainly not easy to explain and in the end chances are that the next prime minister will keep his job for a year or two, and then the circus will start again.
A row over the secret bugging of a British lawmaker widened Tuesday with a police officer alleging he was pressured by top Scotland Yard bosses to eavesdrop on talks between the legislator and a U.S. terror suspect.
Serbia's coalition government was on the verge of collapse Tuesday over the European Union's plans to send a mission to Kosovo province, just days after the pro-Western Serbian president won re-election.
A Paris court ruled Tuesday that Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair must pay President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni a total of €60,001 ($88,975) for an advertisement featuring a photo of the couple.
The United States could have avoided the post-invasion chaos in Iraq had it listened to, and learned from, the British, Prince Andrew said in comments published in a London newspaper Tuesday.
European Union diplomats are highly relieved that Boris Tadic, the incumbent and leader of the Serbian Democratic Party has repeated his 2004 triumph over Tomislav Nikolic, once again overturning his rival's first round lead in the final vote.
The way has been cleared for early elections in Italy, after the speaker of the Italian senate was unable to raise enough support to change voting rules blamed for much of Italy's political instability.
At least nine people -- five of them children -- were killed after a fire gutted an apartment building in southwestern Germany while revelers were celebrating carnival, police said Monday.
A London court Monday convicted five men of helping the failed bombers of London's transit system in 2005 evade arrest, and sentenced them to prison terms ranging from seven to 17 years.
In his victory speech Monday incumbent Serb leader Boris Tadic made it clear he sees his country's future lying within the EU.
In his victory speech Monday incumbent Serb leader Boris Tadic made it clear he sees his country's future lying within the EU.
Trucks that produce high levels of pollution will have to pay $400 a day to drive into London under rules that came into effect Monday.
Boris Tadic celebrated his re-election as Serbia's president by pledging Monday to stay on a pro-Western course despite nationalist anger over a looming declaration of independence by Kosovo province.
A Spanish court has ordered the provisional release from jail of 10 of the 30 suspected Islamic extremists charged with plotting to bomb Madrid's anti-terrorism court pending a verdict.
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