Delegations from 50 nations gathered in London on Tuesday for a conference on Somalia, as the African nation struggles to emerge from decades of conflict.
Amid the massive global interest in the release of Amanda Knox's memoir, which depicts the events surrounding the brutal murder of her flatmate in Italy in 2007, it has been easy to overlook the victim, British exchange student Meredith Kercher.
Nuclear scientists in Switzerland recently dropped some antimatter. The world didn't blow up, but there were some tiny explosions.
Queen Elizabeth II will not attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting later this year, Buckingham Palace said Tuesday.
The deputy speaker of Britain's House of Commons said Sunday the allegations of rape are false.
The deputy speaker of the British Parliament was arrested Saturday on suspicion of rape, a source told CNN.
The deputy speaker of Britain's House of Commons said Sunday the allegations of rape are false.
One person was killed and 17 others injured after a freight train derailed in northwestern Belgium, a local official told CNN.
Turkey and Japan have agreed to a $22 billion deal to build a nuclear power plant in Turkey, the semi-official Turkish news agency Anadolu reported.
A 47-year-old man has been found not guilty Friday of murder in the deaths of two British soldiers at an army base in Northern Ireland in 2009.
Two men who left a suspicious van in a short-term parking lot Wednesday at London's Gatwick Airport are wanted for questioning, authorities said in a written statement.
The ADE 651 stood for "Advanced Detection Equipment". And it certainly looked the part. Sleek black casing. A swivelling antenna that was said to detect everything from bombs to 100 dollar bills. A card that indicated what the device had found.
The maker of a fake bomb detector that investigators say put lives at risk was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison by a London court.
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a market on Wednesday in Makhashkala, the capital of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, killing at least 2 people.
Riot police fired tear gas and water cannons Wednesday at hundreds of protesters trying to hold May Day demonstrations in Istanbul's iconic Taksim Square.
Proposed new legislation won't change Ireland's general ban on abortion, Prime Minister Enda Kenny said Wednesday, but is about "saving lives."
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicates the throne on Tuesday, ending 33 years as the country's monarch and paving the way for her eldest son to become king.
With Queen Beatrix's abdication in the Netherlands, will any of Europe's other older royals now step down?
Female role models are a very powerful and positive image to implant into young girls' psyches. In a recent study of 1000 UK women aged 18 to 60, the lack of role-models emerged as one of the top barriers to female success in the workplace.
Ukrainian opposition leader Yuliya Tymoshenko suffered arbitrary detention in 2011, a court says
Six men have pleaded guilty to planning a terrorist attack against a rally of the right-wing English Defence League in the United Kingdom last year.
A woman desperate to have a fourth child convinced her adopted teenage daughter to artificially inseminate herself with semen purchased over the Internet.
After months of political uncertainty and economic crisis, the lower house of Italy's parliament gave Prime Minister Enrico Letta's new government a vote confidence on Monday.
A chapter was closing in Dutch history Monday as Queen Beatrix spent her last full day on the throne after 33 years as the country's monarch.
An explosion ripped through building in the Czech capital of Prague while classes were in session Monday morning, injuring dozens of people
Here's a look at the life of the world renowned theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astronomer, and mathematician, Stephen Hawking.
Here is a look at the life of Ratko Mladic, former leader of the Bosnian Serb army, indicted for genocide and other war crimes against civilian populations.
Greek lawmakers on Sunday agreed to cut thousands of government workers to secure another 8.8 billion euros ($11.5 billion) in bailout funds.
A gas explosion destroyed part of an apartment building Sunday in Reims, France, Mayor Adelie Hazan told CNN affiliate BFM TV.
Two national police officers were wounded Sunday when a gunman shot at officers outside the Italian prime minister's office, authorities said.
Italian center-left politician Enrico Letta has fully accepted a mandate to form a government, he told reporters Saturday.
A coalition of protesters marched Saturday under sunny skies to a Royal Air Force base north of London to voice its opposition to the UK's use of armed drones in Afghanistan.
A parole bid by a member of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot was rejected after a judge said she'd broken prison rules.
Celebrity publicist Max Clifford was charged Friday with 11 counts of indecent assault against a girl under the age of 16 as part of the Savile scandal.
State media: Russian authorities detained 140 people -- more than 30 of them foreign nationals -- on Friday in a raid targeting suspected Islamic extremists.
Here's a look at Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1979 to 1990.
The mastermind of an al Qaeda-inspired terror plot in England was sentenced Friday to at least 18 years in prison, the West Midlands Police said.
A fire tore through a psychiatric hospital near Moscow, killing 38 people, Russian officials said Friday.
A Spanish judge filed preliminary charges of membership in an Islamic terrorist group against two men arrested this week, a national court spokesman said.
The past week has been a devastating one for many families. Zubeidat Tsarnaev's is one of them.
Serbia's president apologized Thursday for the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, but declined to call the act genocide.
Spain's unemployment rate rose to a record high of 27.2% in the first quarter of 2013, the Spanish National Institute of Statistics said Thursday.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Thursday defended his government's record on free speech and rejected a claim it used "Stalinist" methods.
From crystal legs to arms covered in feathers, a pioneering designer is reinventing the way we see artificial limbs.
A magazine publisher, a photographer and a regional newspaper are under formal investigation in France over the publication of vacation pictures of Catherine.
One focus of the investigation into the deadly Boston Marathon bombings is Dagestan, where the suspects' parents live and where one of the suspects visited.
Four people in UK charged in a police probe into alleged payments for news stories involving the royal family.
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has asked center-left politician Enrico Letta to form a new government, the president's spokesman said Wednesday.
Spanish police arrested 2 suspected terrorists with apparent links to an al Qaeda-affiliated group Tuesday but said they had no indication of an imminent attack
Britain has signed a treaty with Jordan aimed at removing the last obstacles to the deportation of radical cleric Abu Qatada, Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May told British lawmakers Wednesday.
French lawmakers voted to legalize same-sex marriage Tuesday, despite vocal protests from some conservatives opposed to the step.
Two rights groups launched a stinging critique Wednesday on Russia's record on freedom of expression, citing a heavy clampdown on critics and activists.
Britain's Parliament on Monday approved for the final time a bill ending the principle of men taking precedence over women in the line of succession.
Conflict has racked the North Caucasus region. It's not clear if the Boston Marathon bombing suspects were radicalized as a result of apparent Chechen roots
Runners and spectators will see heightened security at Sunday's London Marathon, as police take extra precautions in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing.
Italy's parliament on Saturday re-elected President Giorgio Napolitano to a second term, a step that could help solve a political impasse.
After four rounds of parliamentary voting, no candidate for Italy's presidency had won enough support Friday to win.
The death of an Indian dentist who died after a miscarriage in an Irish hospital was the result of medical misadventure, an inquest jury ruled Friday.
The security plans for the London Marathon this weekend are being reviewed after the deadly bomb blasts in Boston, London's Metropolitan Police said Tuesday.
Nearly 30 migrant workers in Nea Manolada, Greece, were wounded Wednesday after an apparent argument with their foremen over wages, police said Thursday.
An executive editor at The Sun newspaper, Britain's best-selling tabloid, is to be charged over alleged illegal payments to a public official, UK prosecutors said Thursday.
Police in Germany are investigating after sandwiches left on the doorstep of a company labeled as a "present" turned out to be spiked with rat or mouse poison.
Italy's Parliament began casting votes Thursday for a new president to take the place of the incumbent Giorgio Napolitano, whose term expires next month.
The founder of a French company that made controversial breast implants has gone on trial, accused of fraud and causing involuntary injury.
Diehard supporters, tourists and the curious swamped pockets of left-wing protesters to mark the funeral of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Amid pomp and ceremony, Britain will say its final farewell Wednesday to Margaret Thatcher
A solemn calm fills St. Paul's Cathedral as mourners paid their last respects Wednesday to former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Follow the funeral of Margaret Thatcher on CNN International.
The British government isn't giving up its fight to get radical cleric Abu Qatada out of the UK.
Explore the locations along the funeral procession route for former UK PM Margaret Thatcher with our interactive map.
At least one British national was killed Tuesday when a bus crashed in the ski resort town of Alpe d'Huez in the French Alps, local police told CNN.
Britain has not come to terms with the "hurt and anger" many felt from Margaret Thatcher's policies, the clergyman who will greet mourners at her funeral said.
The body of Britain's first woman prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, will lie in a chapel at Westminster Tuesday overnight before a funeral service on Wednesday.
An Istanbul court gave a world-renowned pianist Monday a 10-month suspended sentence for posting tweets that poked fun at Islamic descriptions of heaven.
Interpol on Monday issued an international wanted notice for a French gangster who authorities say used explosives as part of an escape from a Lille prison.
A BBC journalist who got into North Korea posing as a student is facing accusations he put real students at risk
The BBC will play a short clip of "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" on its pop chart show on Sunday after sales skyrocketed after the death of Margaret Thatcher.
In the week between her death and her funeral, Britons are having an awkward time coming to terms with the legacy of Margaret Thatcher, a prime minister who last held office 23 years ago -- meaning no one under 40 could have voted for her, yet the mix of anger and admiration is spread across the generations.
As the Bolshoi Ballet's artistic director Sergei Filin entered the security code of his Moscow apartment, a masked assailant tossed sulfuric acid onto his face, temporarily blinding him and leaving him with severe burns.
A notorious ex-convict held hostages and used explosives to break out of prison, French authorities say.
The French Senate approved a controversial bill Friday that would extend the rights to marry and adopt to same-sex couples.
Justice officials are pointing to prison overcrowding in the escape of French gangster Redoine Faid
The daughter of Margaret Thatcher spoke of her grief at losing her mother, Britain's first female prime minister, hours before protesters gathered.
Kremlin slaps 18 Americans with sanctions in response to a list by the U.S. of alleged Russian rights abusers.
Pope Francis has appointed a group of eight cardinals from around the world to look into ways of reforming the Catholic Church, the Vatican said Saturday.
The Rijksmuseum, home to one of the world's most celebrated collections of art and historical artifacts reopened Saturday after a 10-year, $489 million rebuilding project which saw many of its treasures travel the world while the gallery was closed.
A large security operation will swing into action for Margaret Thatcher's funeral Wednesday, police said Friday.
Prime Minister David Cameron's office has released plans for the Wednesday, April 17, funeral of Britain's first woman prime minister, Margaret Thatcher.
Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum is to reopen after 10 years. Find out more about its star attraction, Rembrandt's "Night Watch" with our interactive.
All former U.S. presidents and a raft of UK and global dignitaries will be invited to former British PM Margaret Thatcher's funeral, Downing Street said.
Good luck charms, wooden buildings and an amber gladiator amulet are among a huge trove of Roman artefacts unearthed in London, archaeologists said Wednesday.
Margaret Thatcher was "an extraordinary leader and an extraordinary woman," UK Prime Minister David Cameron said in a special session of Parliament Wednesday.
A gunman went on a shooting spree in the Serbian town of Velika Ivanca on Tuesday, killing at least 13 people, including a small child, a police chief said.
A documentary about the murder victims of a German neo-Nazi terror cell has scooped the top prize at this year's CNN Journalist Awards ceremony in Munich.
A day after the death of Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first female prime minister, preparations got under way for a funeral to rival those given to royalty.
No British politician has ever aroused admiration and respect like Margaret Thatcher. But none has inspired the same level of fear and animosity.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a towering figure in postwar British and world politics, has died at the age of 87, her spokeswoman said Monday.
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