NEW YORK: Members of an Islamic coalition stood in front of police headquarters with signs to support the New York Police Department's aggressive counterterrorism efforts, saying the agency is doing what is necessary to protect the city — and (...)
ROME (AP) — A letter bomb exploded Friday at an office of Italy's tax collection agency, slightly wounding the organization's director. Police were probing possible links to an Italian anarchist group that claimed credit for a thwarted attack (...)
ROME — Premier Silvio Berlusconi promised Tuesday to resign after Parliament passes economic reforms demanded by the European Union, capping a two-decade political career that has ended with Italy on the brink of being swept into Europe's debt (...)
NEW YORK: An Emory University law student who was arrested months ago at a demonstration in Cairo's Tahrir Square, accused of being an Israeli spy and locked in an Egyptian jail for the summer returned home to New York City on Saturday as part of a (...)
MILAN — Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says Italy is preparing to release €350 million ($505 million) in Libyan assets frozen in Italian banks.
Berlusconi described the planned release as a first tranche. Italy has not disclosed the (...)
NEW YORK (AP) — A former chairman of one of Egypt's major banks was arrested Monday on charges of sexually abusing a maid at a Manhattan hotel, just weeks after the arrest of former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on similar (...)
MILAN (AP): A ship carrying up to 600 migrants trying to flee Libya has sunk just off the coast of the North African country, the U.N. Refugee Agency said Monday, citing witness accounts.
The agency is trying to confirm what happened to the (...)
Actress Maggie Cheung, in Venice on Saturday to promote a new film, said one reason she has pulled back from acting for now is the industry's focus on youthful beauty.
Cheung has a brief role in Isaac Julien's "Better Life," an experimental film (...)
Lost wandering in the Oregon desert for five weeks when the journey should have taken two, low on water, food and patience, a young emigrant played by Michelle Williams says of the group's ego-driven guide: "Is he ignorant, or just plain evil? (...)