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In a video posted on the Internet, a man describes police ordering several drivers to use their cars as a shield to stop an armed criminal.

For the second time in two weeks, a general strike closed public services, halting all flights and most transport across the debt-plagued country.

The European Union's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, said infighting could wreck a "once in a generation" chance to increase Europe's global influence.

A new law would protect Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his cabinet from the results of trials that are currently under way, on the grounds that the trials would impede their ability to govern.

Authorities arrested 25 men in Sicily, New York, North Carolina and Florida on charges of taking part in a range of criminal activities under the umbrellas of the Gambino and Santa Maria di Gesù crime families.

It was the former president’s his first known direct involvement in a public policy debate since leaving the White House nearly 14 months ago.

A court approved the arrest of 10 suspects in the November 2009 bombing of the Nevsky Express passenger train, which derailed while en route from Moscow to St. Petersburg and killed 28 people.

A man who prosecutors say was the target of a murder plot says his caricature of the Prophet Muhammad was intended to poke fun at all sacred symbols.

A local bill requiring that at least half the copies of every film from outside Europe be dubbed in Catalan is the latest attempt to assert Catalan culture.

The stolen body of a former president of Cyprus was found in a shallow grave on the outskirts of the capital, Nicosia.

Lars Vilks, a Swedish artist, seems remarkably relaxed about the possibility of being attacked by an ax-wielding assailant for having drawn the Prophet Muhammad's head on the body of a dog.

Boris A. Berezovsky, who fled Russia in 2003, won a lawsuit against a Russian broadcaster that had linked him to the high-profile death of Alexander V. Litvinenko.

The multiple, and at times seemingly conflicted roles, of investment banks like Goldman Sachs have also drawn scrutiny.

After months of delay and discord, negotiators are making a fresh effort to wrap up a long-delayed arms control treaty.

Federal prosecutors accused Colleen R. LaRose, who called herself “JihadJane,” of linking up online with militants overseas, culminating in an alleged murder plot.

The Vatican said Tuesday that local churches had “acted swiftly and decisively” to address the growing child sex abuse scandal in Europe.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s plan to provide free care for the growing elderly population faces opposition at a time of record deficits.

Amateur video shot during a chaotic armed robbery on Saturday at a poker tournament in Berlin may have cost the robbers the respect of their peers.

Police in Ireland have arrested seven people over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog.

A Dutch investigative journalist breached security checks at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, smuggling a refilled liquor bottle aboard passenger jets.