Russian and Georgian officials at a leading European security organization sparred Friday over who was to blame for the bloodshed in the breakaway Georgian province of...

Kurdish rebels threatened on Friday to stage more attacks on economic targets in Turkey, days after claiming responsibility for a fire at a key oil pipeline, a...

New Jersey’s fat cat has a home.

Behind the hostilities in South Ossetia are two nations that have long been spoiling for a fight, with Russia eager to show it’s boss in the region and...

The Royal Bank of Scotland posted first-half losses Friday that weren’t nearly as bad as some analysts had feared, rounding out what is shaping up to be a...

The European Union tightened trade sanctions against Iran Friday for defying a long-standing international demand to freeze uranium enrichment.

Georgia’s president says the country is calling home its troops from Iraq amid heavy fighting in the breakaway province of South Ossetia.

The U.S. dollar was higher against other major currencies in European trading Friday. Gold fell.

Miners in Romania have unearthed the skeleton of a 2.5 million-year-old mastodon, believed to be one of the best preserved in Europe, a local official said Friday.

A man doused himself with gasoline and set himself alight during a protest Friday by ethnic Uighurs outside the Chinese Embassy in Turkey.

Pandemic flu, not terrorism, is the most serious risk to the U.K. public, says Britain’s first ever national threat assessment, published on Friday.

A long-distance passenger train from Poland smashed into a collapsed bridge in eastern Czech Republic on Friday, killing at least six people and seriously injuring 13...

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Oil prices sagged Friday as a strengthening dollar and worries about economic growth offset supply concerns over pipeline sabotage in Turkey that was claimed by Kurdish...

Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC on Friday reported a half-year loss of 802 million pounds ($1.5 billion), forced deep into the red by 5.9 billion pounds ($11.4...

A charter bus ran off a highway overpass north of Dallas and crashed onto its side on a roadway below, killing 12 people early Friday, authorities said.

Bomb squads defused three explosive devices planted Friday at tourist areas in France’s southwest Basque region on the Atlantic coast, officials said.

Georgia says it will observe a 3-hour ceasefire to allow civilians to leave South Ossetia’s capital, Tskhinvali.

Czech railway officials say at least 10 people are dead after a high-speed train hit a collapsed bridge east of Prague. About a hundred others are injured.

The European Union has imposed new sanctions against Iran in protest of its nuclear program.