International Herald Tribune

The break significantly weakened the Italian prime minister’s governing majority, raising the prospect of early elections.

Two United States Embassy employees in Paris were being examined on Friday after handling an envelope, but officials said its contents did not appear to be harmful.

The police in Paris questioned the embattled French labor minister, Éric Woerth, for almost eight hours on Thursday about his role in a deepening scandal involving France’s richest woman.

Russian special forces quickly overpowered a man after he briefly seized a plane with 105 passengers and crew members at a Moscow airport.

An anonymous buyer paid the equivalent of $23,750, more than three times the pre-sale estimate, after bidding at an auction house in Aylsham.

More than 30,000 truck drivers walked out on Monday to protest plans to slash trucking license prices as part of Greece’s financial rescue package.

Salmonella outbreaks that sickened more than 400 in the U.S. and Britain have been traced to mice sold as food for exotic pets.

Lawmakers reduced the sentences of hundreds of Kurdish youths, some of them guilty only of attending protests.

The Continent has generally resisted genetically modified food, but small amounts of meat and dairy from cloned animals are already being consumed.

At a news conference last week in Montreal, members of the Committee for the Reimbursement of the Indemnity Money Extorted from Haiti said that they have not yet begun to prank.

A nursing assistant was charged with what prosecutors called modern France’s worst case of infanticide.

The French president on Wednesday ordered the expulsion of Roma who had committed offenses and said that illegal camps would be taken down.

A record heat wave in the country is felt in such ways as smoky peat fires around Moscow and dying trout at a fish farm.

A woman who admitted suffocating eight of her babies has been charged with manslaughter and will undergo psychiatric evaluation, a prosecutor said Thursday.

On Thursday in India, Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain defended remarks he had made the day before about the need for Pakistan to not give haven to terrorist groups.

Greek police used tear gas to disperse protesting fuel-truck drivers, after the government issued an emergency order to force them back to work.

Police began questioning French Labor Minister Eric Woerth on Thursday as a witness in an investigation into a political donations scandal that has rocked the government.

A bomb exploded Wednesday at an Orthodox church in southern Ukraine, killing one person and wounding eight, officials said.

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi won a final vote on a $33 billion austerity package on Wednesday, clearing the way for a likely showdown with the co-founder of his conservative movement.

For the second time in as many days, British Prime Minister David Cameron has uttered blunt criticism of a country formed when Britain withdrew from empire six decades ago.