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The man suspected of murdering a prominent human rights lawyer and a journalist last January said he committed the crime out of "personal enmity."
The prime minister said that President Hamid Karzai would lose British support if he failed to stem corruption.
In the 100-year-old Grand Concourse, the Bronx has its own Champs-Élysées. But what about the other boroughs?
Regulators, central bankers and citizens are criticizing bankers for continuing large compensation packages while receiving government funds.
The total number of planned staff reductions rises to nearly 5,000 as the British carrier wrestles with what its chief executive called the toughest year in the history of aviation.
CHINON, FRANCE -- France has always been a nation of philosophers. Descartes contributed rigorous thinking. Montesquieu and Voltaire inspired democracy, and Sartre made it cool to despair. It was inevitable, sooner or later, that along would come Jacques Puisais, philosopher of taste.
LONDON -- Facing a sudden surge in public opposition to the war in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivered a stinging rebuke Friday to the government in Kabul, threatening to withhold additional British troops if it did not act swiftly to combat widespread corruption.
Crew members of a Spanish fishing ship seized by Somali pirates over a month ago pleaded with their relatives to press the Spanish government to do more to gain their release.
Two decades after the Berlin Wall came down, those who once left Dresden to seek work in western Germany are returning.
A Russian military plane with at least nine people on board crashes into the sea in the country's Far East, officials say.
President Abdullah Gul criticises the EU after it asks Turkey to reconsider an invitation to Sudan's president.
The sale of Adolf Hitler's family home in the Austrian town of Braunau am Inn triggers concern that it could become a Nazi shrine.
LONDON (Reuters) - Beauty pageant winner Miss England gave up her title on Friday after reports she had been involved in a nightclub brawl with another beauty queen.
Chelsea will be able to buy and sell players in January after their Fifa transfer ban is suspended pending a final decision.
Gordon Brown warns the Afghan president he will not put British troops "in harm's way" to defend a corrupt administration.
A Danish journalism student is arrested in Iran after covering anti-government protests, says the Danish Union of Journalists.
Spain resists pressure to free two Somalis accused of piracy in exchange for Spanish sailors held in Somalia.
German researchers say babies begin to pick up the nuances of their parents' accents while still in the womb.
As the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall approaches, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany discussed the event and the long path Germans have taken since then to bring the two sides closer together.
MOSCOW -- Russian authorities said Thursday that they had solved one of their country's most notorious crimes, charging two alleged neo-Nazi gang members in the brazen killings of a human rights lawyer and a journalist in central Moscow in January.
BAGHDAD -- Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell signed a deal with the Iraqi Oil Ministry on Thursday to develop a major field, marking the first foray by a U.S.-led consortium into Iraq's promising but uncertain oil industry.
The Americans were tried in absentia for the seizure of a Muslim cleric from the streets of Milan over six years ago.
The UK government has admitted that a new legally binding global treaty on climate change is highly unlikely to be agreed this year.
Bears in an eastern German zoo have lost their fur, but international experts cannot work out why.
French minister Pierre Lellouche says he would be able to work with the Tories on Europe after previously criticising them.
In the Swiss city that is associated with the religious reformer John Calvin, some are seeking to update â€" even soften â€" his image on the anniversary of his birth.
MILAN -- An Italian court convicted 22 CIA operatives and a U.S. Air Force colonel on kidnapping charges Wednesday in a stern rebuke to the U.S. government's long-standing practice of covertly seizing terrorism suspects abroad without a warrant.
PRAGUE -- A charter meant to transform Europe into a more unified and powerful global player passed its last major hurdle Tuesday and appears set to become law within weeks.
President Dmitri A. Medvedev wants Russia to deal with its ruinous penchant for the bottle.
LONDON -- The British government announced Tuesday that it will break up parts of major financial institutions bailed out by taxpayers, highlighting a growing divide across the Atlantic over how to deal with the massive banks that were partially nationalized during the height of the financial...
TEHRAN -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday urged Iran to stick to an agreement to ship low-enriched uranium abroad for processing for use in a Tehran research reactor, after a senior official Iranian official said his country wants to instead purchase nuclear fuel.
LONDON -- The British government is moving to break up parts of major financial institutions bailed out by taxpayers, with a restructuring plan expected to be unveiled as soon as Tuesday. The move highlights a growing divide across the Atlantic over how to deal with the massive banks partially...
PAKISTAN
STOCKHOLM, Oct 27 (IPS)- From Algeria to Zimbabwe, there have been calls to develop the private sector. But some governments regard independent private sectors as a threat to their power and have even actively blocked business. Meanwhile African women have had a particularly raw deal in business. Some Africans question whether the private sector or the state should drive development.
Britain has become aggressive in cracking down on the use of cellphones while driving.
NEW YORK, Nov 3 (IPS)- The long road to the proverbial day in court just got longer for five men who claim they were "disappeared"and tortured by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
ROME, Nov 6 (IPS)- Of the many proposals on how to combat poverty in Africa, the United Nations' International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is championing what must be one of the simplest - make it cheaper and easier for migrants to send money home.
MADRID, Nov 6 (IPS)- The 60,000 tonnes of rubbish collected daily in Spain, equivalent to 1.3 kilos per person, is being managed by more green-friendly methods of recovery and treatment.
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland, Nov 6 (IPS)- You could almost begin to divide the figures before you add them up. The numbers being advertised by way of aid to the developing world to contain carbon emissions do not quite add up. What is more certain is the division to follow.
WASHINGTON, Nov 2 (IPS)- As a delegation of European Union leaders descends on Washington Tuesday, a new report argues that "European governments prefer to fetishise transatlantic relations, valuing closeness and harmony as ends in themselves, and seeking influence with Washington through various strategies of seduction or ingratiation".
BERLIN, Oct 30 (IPS)- Every single person should set a cap of a total of 110 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions over the next four decades to avoid irreversible and uncontrollable consequences of climate change, under a new proposal.
ROME, Oct 29 (IPS)- Achieving ambitious Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) production targets to meet growing world demands will not suffice to feed the world, and focusing too much on churning out crops may even be damaging, experts warn.
SWANSEA, U.K., Oct 29 (IPS)- Athletes competing for Olympic gold speak to the imagination of most of us. Homeless people playing an international football tournament may be a less familiar sight. Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro will get a chance to see both.
BERLIN, Oct 29 (IPS)- Concerns have risen with the inauguration of the new government that Germany will cut back on its commitments on international development.
BELGRADE, Oct 28 (IPS)- The Balkans gets its first museum on the Roma, to tell a story about one of the most underprivileged ethnic groups in the region.
BUCHAREST, Oct 29 (IPS)- Low-income Eastern Europeans contracting easy consumer loans in the mid- 2000s are now falling below poverty lines.
BBC Europe editor Gavin Hewitt on the big stories of the day.
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