International Herald Tribune

The guidelines are in response to hundreds of allegations of such abuse that earlier this year rocked the church in Germany, Pope Benedict XVI’s homeland.

The battle over Michelangelo’s masterpiece revealed other disputes over the way Italy’s cultural heritage is managed.

The French government — amid wide criticism for deportation of hundreds of Roma — defended its actions on Tuesday and accused Romania of not doing enough to integrate members of its Roma minority.

The police said 14 people, almost all of them Brazilian, were arrested over recent weeks as part of an inquiry into a human trafficking network’s activities begun in February.

France’s Champagne industry is trying to cut the carbon dioxide it emits transporting billions of tiny bubbles around the world.

An aviation security loophole that remains unclosed: not all of the cargo loaded onto passenger jets that fly into the United States from abroad is screened.

Officials said they thought it unlikely that two United States residents of Yemeni descent held in Amsterdam on Monday had any connection to terrorism.

An Iranian newspaper with close ties to the country's leader has called Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, a "prostitute" who "deserves to die" for to joining a campaign to save the life of an Iranian woman sentenced to die by stoning.

Mr. Putin told the Kommersant newspaper that the opposition had to abide by the law and receive permission to march.

Cardinal Godfried Danneels said he should not have suggested to a victim of serial sexual abuse that he say nothing publicly until after the retirement of the offending bishop.

A member of Germany’s central bank board, whose disparaging remarks about Jews and Muslims have created a public outcry, brushed aside calls for his dismissal.

In a compromise, the nation’s leaders appear ready to keep the requirement for a draft, but to end the actual practice.

Thilo Sarrazin, a leading German banker whose disparaging remarks about Jews and Muslims have created a public outcry, brushed aside calls on Monday for his dismissal from the central bank.

A man armed with a submachine gun and two handguns killed six members of a Roma family in their apartment house in Bratislava.

The dinosaur lived more than 65 million years ago and had two sicklelike claws on each foot.

The Libyan leader returned to Rome to bring attention to a trade agreement and deliver another lecture about Islam to hundreds of women selected by a modeling agency.

Hurricane Earl swelled with heavy rain and strong winds after strengthening into a Category 2 storm. Earl could become a major hurricane Mondy night or early Tuesday.

A gunman killed six people and wounded 14 in the Slovak capital Bratislava on Monday, the national rescue service said.

For many Pakistanis, weighed down by violence and floods, a betting scandal was the final straw.

The governor of Iran’s central bank, Mahmoud Bahmani, did not specify the amount or date of the transfers.