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JERUSALEM — After decades of shying away from an ancient pilgrimage route, Muslims are visiting Jerusalem to pray at Islam's third-holiest site, the revered Al-Aqsa mosque. Apr 28 at 09:09 | Associated Press |
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BERLIN - Former German central banker Thilo Sarrazin, whose musings on Muslim immigrants sparked outrage in 2010, has triggered fresh controversy with a book that paints Germany as the euro zone's hostage, forced to pay out vast sums to atone for the Holocaust. May 21 at 20:30 | Reuters |
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BERLIN (AP) — Voters in Germany's most populous state strengthened a center-left regional government which Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives had portrayed as irresponsibly spendthrift, and inflicted an embarrassingly heavy defeat Sunday on the German leader's party, projections showed. May 13 at 22:20 | Associated Press |
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BEIJING — A blind legal activist who fled house arrest in his rural China village is under the protection of U.S. officials and high-level talks are taking place between the countries about his fate, an overseas activist group said Saturday. Apr 28 at 10:18 | Associated Press |
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NEW YORK - U.S. hospitals are ripping out wall-mounted toilets and replacing them with floor models to better support obese patients. The Federal Transit Administration wants buses to be tested for the impact of heavier riders on steering and braking. Cars are burning nearly a billion gallons of gasoline more a year than if passengers weighed what they did in 1960. Apr 30 at 13:36 | Reuters |
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NEW YORK (AP) — Speakers at a panel on Tuesday disagreed over whether a correspondent for The Associated Press who defied military censors by reporting that the Germans had surrendered unconditionally inWorldWarIIhad acted properly. May 9 at 23:07 | Associated Press |
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WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - If or when policymakers finally decideGreeceshould leave the euro, the exit could happen so quickly that "new drachma" currency notes might not be printed in time. May 20 at 13:34 | Reuters |
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Armenians voted for a new parliament on Sunday in an election that the nation's president hoped would give him a majority among the lawmakers. May 6 at 20:36 | Associated Press |
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CAMP ROUND MEADOW,Maryland, May 19 (Reuters) - Leaders of theGroup of Eightmajor economies are making progress on addressing the two biggest threats to their economies - the euro zone crisis and very high oil prices, British Prime MinisterDavid Cameronsaid on Saturday. May 19 at 16:37 | Reuters |
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LONDON - The Olympic flame went out on Monday for the first time during the torch relay around Britain ahead of the London Games because of a "malfunctioning burner", organisers said. May 21 at 16:19 | Reuters |
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BUCHAREST - Romania, the European Union's second-poorest member, is crawling out of a deep recession after implementing austerity measures demanded in an International Monetary Fund-led economic bailout. May 2 at 18:24 | Reuters |
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The EoropeanSpace Agency has all but lost hope of recovering its stricken Earth observation satellite Envisat. May 9 at 18:34 | Associated Press |
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French President-elect Francois Hollande threw himself into his newjob Wednesday, focusing on Europe's debt crisis and studying up for international summits. May 9 at 17:00 | Associated Press |
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The U.S. State Department announced major changes Friday, May 7, to one of its premier cultural-exchange programs following an investigation by The Associated Press that found widespread abuses. May 7 at 12:59 | Associated Press |
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BRUSSELS — Unemployment across the 17 countries that use the euro rose to 10.9 percent in March, its highest level since the euro was launched in 1999, official figures show. May 2 at 12:39 | Associated Press |