By Anthee Carassava, Los Angeles Times
ATHENS — Eva, a well-groomed pensioner, grasps her creamy white purse, glancing impatiently at her gold Cartier watch as she waits for...
By Christi Parsons and Don Lee, Los Angeles Times
CAMP DAVID, Md. — In a significant political victory for President Obama, the leaders of Germany and other European nations endorsed a...
By Steve Chawkins, Los Angeles Times
Nobody thought much about the locked metal cabinet in the medical school at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. It was...
By Henry Chu and Lauren Frayer, Los Angeles Times
LONDON — The alarm over potential bank runs in Greece and Spain this week has highlighted an often-overlooked fact: Europe's debt...
By Kathleen Hennessey and Christi Parsons
WASHINGTON — Whatever else they achieve, back-to-back summits of world leaders this weekend hosted by President Obama will showcase...
By David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta heads to this weekend's NATO summit prepared to confront Pakistan over what he...
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan President Hamid Karzai, perhaps best known in the West for periodic well-aimed jabs at his NATO allies, is...
By Don Lee, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — For months, President Obama has been urging his European allies to balance their zeal for spending cuts with policies...
By Anthee Carassava and Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
ATHENS — Fear for the health ofGreece's banks increased Wednesday after a rush of withdrawals as the country braces for fresh...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Just days before a NATO summit that leaders had hoped would present a carefully scripted display of unity on Afghanistan,...
By Janet Stobart and Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times
LONDON — Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic confronted the accusations against him at the opening of his war crimes trial in The Hague...
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
MOSCOW — Russian riot police cleared a Moscow park early Wednesday of a weeklong encampment considered a local version of the Occupy...
By Kim Willsher, Los Angeles Times
PARIS — France's new president, Francois Hollande, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have opposing ideas of how to solve Europe's...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
LONDON — She once had the ear of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and Prime Minister David Cameron. Through newspapers such as the Times...
By Henry Chu and Anthee Carassava, Los Angeles Times
ATHENS — As Greece lurches along without a government, its deepening political crisis is fast turning into a war of wills in which...
By Aaron Wiener, Los Angeles Times
DUESSELDORF, Germany — Voters in Germany's most populous state dealt a decisive blow to Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian...
By Lauren Frayer, Los Angeles Times
LISBON — For Francisco Reposo, the 30% pay cut he was forced to take this year amid government austerity measures is the least of...
By Anthee Carassava, Los Angeles Times
ATHENS — Greeks braced for another trip to the ballot box next month after weeklong crisis talks aimed at forming a coalition...
By Anthee Carassava and Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
ATHENS — As it teeters on the brink of political chaos, Greece passed another day without a government after highly splintered...
By Henry Chu, Aaron Wiener and Kim Willsher, Los Angeles Times
PARIS — Exuberant supporters were still out celebrating Francois Hollande's election as president of France when the first fissures...
By Kim Willsher, Los Angeles Times
PARIS — With Francois Hollande's election as France's first Socialist president in 17 years, Europe now must deal with a major...
By Anthee Carassava, Los Angeles Times
ATHENS — Greek conservatives won at the polls Sunday in national elections but fell far short of enough seats to take power,...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
LONDON — For more than two years now, they have all imposed their will on Europe's raging debt crisis: German leaders. Panicked...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
LONDON — It's another gold medal for BoJo.
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
MOSCOW — Russia may consider a preemptive strike on a missile defense system in Europe if the U.S.-led NATO project continues as...
By Kim Willsher, Los Angeles Times
PARIS — It was billed as a political duel to the death.
By Henry Chu and Dawn C. Chmielewski, Los Angeles Times
LONDON — Over 60 years, Rupert Murdoch built a media empire using his properties and their profits not just to break down the doors to...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
ROME — Quiet and bookish, a little colorless, Mario Monti doesn't seem the kind of man to inspire religious epiphanies. But his...
By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times
Mistakes were made, but on balance waterboarding of terrorism suspects made the world safer.
By Devorah Lauter and Kim Willsher, Los Angeles Times
BRACHAY, France — The drive to this picturesque village nearly 200 miles southeast of Paris winds through forests and farmland where...
By Anthee Carassava, Los Angeles Times
ATHENS, Greece — Ancient Greeks invented the Olympics and the nation's athletes have remained loyal participants throughout the years,...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
LONDON — By turns contrite and defiant, media magnate Rupert Murdoch on Thursday apologized for the phone-hacking scandal that has...
By Robyn Dixon and Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The litany of abuses was chilling: mass murder, rape, sexual slavery. Forcing children to fight. Chopping...
By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times
Analyzing DNA from four ancient skeletons and comparing it with thousands of genetic samples from living humans, a group of Scandinavian...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
LONDON — He's hobnobbed with every British prime minister of the last 30 years but says he wields no undue political influence. His...
By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times
The Oslo courtroom where confessed mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is on trial offers a look at a tragic outcome of anti-Islamic...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
LONDON — Rupert Murdoch's media empire enjoyed possibly inappropriate contacts with senior British politicians, including the...
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
MOSCOW — President-elect Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that he would resign as chairman of the United Russia party after his...
By Mike Boehm, Los Angeles Times
The Italian government has been persistent, tenacious and very effective in forcing repatriation of its looted antiquities. Seizing the...
By Julie Wernau
CHICAGO — Batteries made in America for America and backed by America. That's how politicians hailed Ener1.
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
MOSCOW — Tens of thousands of people came to the square in front of a Moscow cathedral Sunday in a show of support for the Russian...
By Kim Willsher, Los Angeles Times
PARIS — Socialist Party candidate Francois Hollande and French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday advanced to a presidential runoff...
By Kim Willsher, Los Angeles Times
PARIS — Under the big top of Paris' Cirque d'Hiver, where in winter trapeze artists perform "death-defying" feats, big cats terrify...
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
KARABANOVO, Russia — His unruly mane of white hair giving him the look of Moses, Father Georgy Edelstein struggled over the grayish...
By Aaron Wiener, Los Angeles Times
KLEINENSIEL, Germany — When the German government shut down half the country's nuclear reactors after the Fukushima disaster in Japan,...
By Walter Hamilton and Stuart Pfeifer, Los Angeles Times
It sounded far-fetched — a "stock-picking robot" that could identify penny stocks poised to double in price.
By Kim Willsher, Los Angeles Times
PARIS — Just hours after 40,000 runners gathered at Place de la Concorde, the historic gateway to the French capital, for the start of...
By Dalina Castellanos, Los Angeles Times
A group that represents the majority of Roman Catholic nuns in the United States has been chastised by the Vatican for deviating from church...
By David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times
BRUSSELS — The United States and its allies are promising to provide more than $4 billion a year for Afghanistan's army and police...
By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times
Blaming a "fundamentally changed" solar industry and plunging business in Europe, panel maker First Solar Inc. is cutting 2,000 jobs and...
By Devorah Lauter, Los Angeles Times
GIVERNY, France — When James Priest is asked to strike a Claude Monet pose and stroll under the famous arched trellises lining the...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
GODALMING, England — He had just landed his biggest assignment yet, senior telegraph officer on the world's biggest ship. On the...
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
MOSCOW — Josef Stalin ruled the Soviet Union for three decades, turning it from a backward agrarian country into a nuclear...
By Tina Susman and Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
NEW YORK — A federal court judge sentenced convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout to 25 years in prison on Thursday, but in a swipe...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
LONDON — The British government is scrambling to fend off accusations of trying to turn the country into a virtual police state with...
By Dawn C. Chmielewski and Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
James Murdoch's resignation as chairman of satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting comes ahead of a government report expected to...
By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times
Molson Coors Brewing Co. — home of Miller Lite, Blue Moon, Keystone Light and other signature brands — plans to expand into...
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
MOSCOW — In a sign that Russia's ruling party will face greater challenges when Vladimir Putin begins his third term as president,...
By Andres D'Alessandro, Henry Chu and Chris Kraul, Los Angeles Times
BUENOS AIRES — Separated by an ocean and an ongoing dispute, Argentina and Britain commemorated the 30th anniversary Monday of the...
By Lauren Frayer, Los Angeles Times
MADRID — The son of two teachers, Moises Leon got an education degree in hope of joining the ranks of the comfortable middle class...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
The 17 nations of the Eurozone agreed Friday to increase their bailout resources in an attempt to keep a lid on the debt crisis that has...
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
MOSCOW — The only thing missing from the scene was one of those heroic images of Lenin peering from a shop window, or perhaps a...
By Jason Felch, Los Angeles Times
The government of Turkey is asking American museums to return dozens of artifacts that were allegedly looted from the country's...
By Lauren Frayer, Los Angeles Times
MADRID — Millions of Spaniards stayed off the job Thursday to protest new labor laws that allow companies to opt out of collective...
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
MOSCOW — Russia's parliament on Wednesday approved legislation intended to simplify the registration of political parties, a move...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
Naomi Wormell is a vicar, not a vigilante. But these days, she finds it hard to choose Christian charity over some swift — and...
By Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times
Tonino Guerra, an internationally renowned Italian screenwriter who collaborated with Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and other...
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
He was born in 1991, the year the Soviet Union collapsed. He was still a child in grade school when a former KGB agent named Vladimir...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
For nearly 70 years, Germany's grand national ambition has basically been not to have one.
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
The videos feature some of Russia's most famous actors, writers, directors, musicians and other VIPs, all united by the heartfelt slogan:...
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