Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Friday that the company expects to have to deal with a weak economy for at least the next several years.

Cologne’s six-story city archive building rumbled and then collapsed into a pile of rubble Tuesday. Many people inside were able to flee to safety, but rescue workers said they were searching for nine people missing from nearby buildings.

The building that houses the Cologne city archives collapsed on Tuesday and officials said they feared that people could be trapped inside.

German police commandos grabbed two terrorist suspects from an Amsterdam-bound flight early Friday before the plane took off from Cologne, police said.

German newspaper Bild says state police tell them a special commando unit stormed a KLM flight in Cologne early Friday and arrested two terrorist suspects.

German newspaper Bild says state police tell them a special commando unit stormed a KLM flight in Cologne early Friday and arrested two terrorist suspects.

Police announced plans Thursday to station 3,000 officers this weekend in downtown Cologne, where thousands are expected to demonstrate against far-right groups attending an “Anti-Islamification” conference.

Far-right groups from around Europe are planning to join German nationalists in a protest next week against plans for a large, new mosque in the city of Cologne.

An escaped kangaroo kept police and firefighters busy after fleeing its owner’s home and bounding through a small town near Cologne. The animal was eventually caught in a net and returned to its owner on Tuesday.

Akron police say a robbery attempt had more than a whiff of failure. They accuse a man of trying to stick two people up outside a video store with a bottle of cologne that had been colored black with a marking pen and resembled a gun.Police Lt. Rick...