After years of fighting Taliban militants in the arid mountains, NATO is keen to showcase the value of a navy being able to strike enemies without ground troops.
Russian authorities have charged all 30 people aboard a Greenpeace ship during an Arctic protest with piracy. Two activists tried to scale an oil platform.
At least 94 people, including women and children, died when a boat capsized and caught fire off the island of Lampedusa, the Italian coast guard told CNN
Jailed Pussy Riot band member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has ended her hunger strike -- but will resume it if conditions at her prison camp did not improve
Jellyfish inhabiting a cooling water intake at a Swedish nuclear plant caused the manual reactor shutdown, according to the company that runs the plant.
The leader of Greece's extreme-right Golden Dawn party, Nikos Michaloliakos, is being held in custody after appearing in court Wednesday.
Turkish authorities' use of live ammunition and beatings to crush street protests this summer constitute massive human rights violations, rights group says.
Clusters of Roman skulls have been discovered deep below London's Liverpool Street by construction workers digging a new rail route through England's capital.
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi unexpectedly dropped a bid to topple Italy's current government Wednesday.
A small bomb exploded in a Roman Catholic cathedral in the northern Spanish city of Zaragoza Wednesday, but no injuries were reported, a police spokeswoman said.
Here's some background information about the 2004 Olympics which were held in Athens,Greece.
The latest chapter in Amanda Knox's long legal battle begins Monday in Florence with a retrial over the 2007 killing of her British roommate Meredith Kercher
Popes John XXIII and John Paul II will be declared saints in April, the Vatican said Monday.
People had to leap into the River Thames on Sunday after the amphibious tour boat taking them around London caught fire near the Houses of Parliament
The leader of Greece's extreme right wing Golden Dawn party and four party lawmakers were charged Saturday with forming and participating in a criminal gang.
The leader of Greece's extreme right wing Golden Dawn party and an MP for the party have been arrested on charges of forming a criminal gang, Athens police said.
Her requests for parole recently denied, a member of the punk rock collective Pussy Riot was hospitalized amid a hunger strike, Russian state-run media said.
Soccer star Lionel Messi and his father testified in a Barcelona court Friday in a preliminary hearing in a $5 million tax fraud case.
The landscape of German politics is changing. Angela Merkel has just been re-elected chancellor and is considered the country's most powerful female politician ever. And now, for the first time in its history, two black politicians are entering parliament.
Prince George will be christened on October 23 at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, his parents, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, announced Friday.
Two men accused of murder in British soldier Lee Rigby's killing in May pleaded not guilty Friday at the Old Bailey criminal court in London.
A coat of arms to represent Prince William and his wife, Catherine, as a married couple was unveiled Friday, more than two years after their wedding.
Here's some background information about the Norwegian terrorist attack on July 22, 2011. Eight people died in a bombing in Oslo while 69 young people died on nearby Utoya island. This was the deadliest attack in Norway since World War II.
Human remains have been found on the wrecked Costa Concordia, the cruise liner that struck rocks off Italy's Giglio Island in 2012.
A man climbing a French glacier found a cache of glittering jewels valued at more than $175,000, possibly from an old plane crash.
It's a check for $2 million, issued to a man with a California driver's license. And it was found in a subway car in Madrid, police say.
British retailers have removed "psycho ward" and "mental patient" Halloween costumes from their online stores after criticism that they were offensive to people with mental health conditions.
Here's a look at the life of the first female chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel.
Judges in the trial of the captain of the Costa Concordia agreed Wednesday to his request for a new examination of the ship, a Costa Cruises spokesman said.
The Pink Star diamond is expected to go for more than $60 million, the highest price in history for any diamond ever purchased, auctioneer Sotheby's says.
A ring once owned by the 19th century novelist Jane Austen is to remain in Britain after a museum successfully raised funds to buy it from American singer Kelly Clarkson.
French officials discovered 1.3 tons of pure cocaine on a plane from Venezuela. The street value? About 200 million Euros, or $270 million.
Lawyers for Francesco Schettino, captain of the Costa Concordia, ask judges for permission to tour the ill-fated cruise liner's bridge and engine room.
She may be unpopular in many of the troubled countries of the eurozone, but of Europe's leaders, Chancellor Angela Merkel is the one who managed to keep her sear throughout the crisis.
Voters in Germany vote Sunday for the first time since the eurozone crisis left the single currency -- and much of the continent -- teetering on the brink of chaos.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party appeared close to obtaining a super majority in Sunday's parliamentary elections, exit polls showed
As Germans head to the polls Sunday, CNN looks at how the German chancellor became the most powerful woman in the world.
The conveyer belt of a baggage carousel that killed a 5-month-old at an airport in Spain was not moving when his mother set him on it, authorities say.
So you thought the German election was boring? Check out some of the best jokes based on the candidates.
The Russian coast guard has seized a Greenpeace ship in international waters and detained 30 activists aboard, who were protesting oil drilling in the Arctic.
Voters in Germany will go to the polls this weekend for the first time since the eurozone crisis left the single currency -- and much of the continent -- teetering on the brink of chaos.
In the quiet world of German politics, outspoken Social Democrat leader and Angela Merkel's main challenger, Peer Steinbrueck, is causing something of a storm.
Here is a look at the life of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former International Monetary Fund Director.
Spanish investigators are trying to figure out how a 5-month-old baby died on a baggage carousel at an airport in Alicante.
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras pleaded for calm Thursday after anger at Greece's right-wing Golden Dawn party exploded into violence in an Athens suburb.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's daughter was briefly held at gunpoint in central London this week, police and Blair's office said Thursday.
A European Union police officer was killed in a shooting in Kosovo on Thursday morning, the first police officer on the EULEX mission to be killed there
Germany's voters will cast their ballots this weekend to decide who will lead the country through a challenging time as it grapples with its leading role in the Eurozone crisis.
Long before the sun came up over the newly vertical Costa Concordia cruise liner, a little party was going on in Giglio harbor.
The alleged leader of an Islamic militant cell in Spain who escaped arrest in June has been taken into custody, the Spanish Interior Ministry said Monday.
Engineers succeeded Tuesday in righting the Costa Concordia cruise liner off the Italian island of Giglio, where it had capsized after it ran aground in 2012.
It's been 19 months since the Costa Concordia, one of the largest cruise liners ever built, ran aground off the west coast of Italy, killing 32 passengers and capsizing after granite rock tore a 50-meter hole in the ship's hull.
Here's a look at what you need to know about the Berlin Wall, seen as a symbol of the Cold War and East/West relations. The Wall stood from 1961 to 1989, separating democratic West Berlin, in West Germany, from Communist-controlled East Berlin and from the rest of East Germany.
Turkish police and opposition protesters scuffled in Istanbul after a peaceful rally against the killing of other demonstrators during a summer of unrest.
Up to 37 people are dead and 22 are missing after a fire at a psychiatric institution outside the Russian city of Veliky Novgorod, state media say.
Here's a look at what you need to know about the European Debt Crisis which has affected the countries of Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain.
The career of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is set to take another turn, with news Friday that he'll be an economic adviser to the Serbian government.
Prince William to leave military service, will devote time to charities
Close to 300 U.S. soldiers guard Gaziantep, one of Turkey's largest cities, scanning the skies for the threat of missiles fired from nearby Syria.
A recently released book visualizes the intrusion into the private lives of East Germans by Ministry for State Security (Stasi) agents.
Turkey's interior minister says police played no role in the death of a protester that sparked clashes between security forces and demonstrators.
Thousands of Catalans are due to increase pressure on Madrid for an independent, breakaway state Wednesday by forming a human chain for 400 kilometers
A portrait of teen education activist Malala Yousafzai goes on show Wednesday in a display of work by Jonathan Yeo opening at London's National Portrait Gallery
Clashes erupted across Turkey on Tuesday after a predawn skirmish between police and protesters left one demonstrator dead in the border province of Hatay.
British prosecutors charged a top member of Britain's ruling Conservative Party with a variety of sexual offenses Tuesday, including rape.
The judge investigating the train crash that killed 79 people in Spain last July is adding preliminary charges for executives of the state railway company.
Here's a look at the life of Diana, Princess of Wales and first wife of Prince Charles
More than 120 years after Vincent van Gogh's death, a new painting by the Dutch master has come to light.
Here's a look at what you need to know about the Beslan School Siege.
British police arrested two men following a trespassing and burglary incident at Buckingham Palace this week, authorities said Saturday.
Police spotted a man in the gardens of Buckingham Palace and stopped him, concerned he might be an intruder. It turned out to be Prince Andrew.
There wasn't a shadow of a doubt that interim Moscow mayor Sergey Sobyanin would win the mayoral race against anti-corruption activist Alexey Navalny.
You may have been surprised by the about-face by French President Francois Hollande who -- after initially stressing the need for urgent action on Syria while insisting there was no need to wait for the United Nations inspectors' report on the August 21 attack -- said on Friday that he now wants to wait for their findings.
The Dutch state is liable for the deaths of three Muslim men from the Bosnian city of Srebrenica in the 1990s, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands ruled Friday.
The story of the king buried beneath a car park made headlines around the world, but 12 months on, a battle is raging over where Richard III should be buried.
At least 100 vehicles were involved in a huge chain-reaction crash Thursday in the English county of Kent, police said, seriously injuring eight people.
Researchers working with the remains of King Richard III said on Wednesday that he was infected with roundworms in his intestines.
As the United States and its allies wrestle with how to respond to the possibility that the Syrian regime used chemical weapons against its own people, a new poll for CNN finds Washington's European allies distinctly lukewarm on military intervention.
A postcard-sized painting bought as part of a job lot at an auction for $46 (£30) has been identified as work by John Constable worth more than $390,000.
A ray of light reflected by the "Walkie Talkie" building in London has melted parts of a Jaguar XJ car parked in a nearby street.
The British Wildlife Photography Awards 2013 are celebrating the beauty of Great Britain's nature.
Pope Francis has appointed Archbishop Pietro Parolin to succeed Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone as the Holy See's secretary of state, the Vatican said Saturday.
Demonstrators congregated in central squares in Istanbul on Sunday, blaring music and chanting "down with the government" for a "Peace Day" rally.
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, made her first public appearance Friday alongside her husband, Prince William, just over a month after the royal baby was born.
Scientists have found what appears to be a 460-mile "megacanyon" far beneath the frozen surface of Greenland.
Leaked data seized from David Miranda, the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald, would cause harm to UK national security if revealed, a court hears.
"The British aren't coming! The British aren't coming!" screams the headline of New York's Daily News, describing Britain as "normally reliable" but now a surprising let-down for U.S. President Barack Obama.
British authorities have charged veteran children's television host Rolf Harris with more than a dozen counts of child abuse.
The United States may have to take action against Syria without the support of one of its staunchest allies, U.S. officials said Thursday
British Prime Minister David Cameron opened an emergency debate on Syria Thursday, calling it an issue of how to respond to one of most "abhorrent uses of chemical weapons in a century."
A British intelligence report says it's "highly likely" the Syrian government used chemical weapons on civilians.
Scientists have now confirmed the existence of a new element, No. 115 on the periodic table, by slamming atoms into each other.
Take a sneak peak at how CNN produced its new show 'The City'. Editing an interview with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and traveling to Rio -- this is how we did it.
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