British authorities are investigating 33 allegations of abuse, including rape, torture and assault, by British soldiers who served in Iraq,...
By Anthony Faiola
Buoyed by strengthening rebounds in Germany and France, the 16-nation euro zone appears to have climbed out of its worst recession since...
By Mark Magnier
A dozen Dutch soldiers emerge from their belching armored carriers, scan the area for danger and begin setting up checkpoints outside the...
By Megan K. Stack
Russia is a country adrift, President Dmitry Medvedev told a vast audience that gathered Thursday beneath the gold chandeliers of the...
By Kate Connolly
For more than seven decades, Gretel Bergmann has been haunted by a recurring dream.
By Henry Chu
It was a simple letter from the most powerful man in Britain. In an age of big political staffs, computers and spell-check, it was written...
By Thomas H. Maugh II
Vitaly Ginzburg, the Russian physicist who played a key role in the Soviet Union's development of the hydrogen bomb and who later won a...
By Megan K. Stack
Two of Russia's most prominent human rights organizations say their work has been thrown into jeopardy by municipal efforts to evict them...
ANGELA MERKEL, German chancellor
By Henry Chu
Katrin Geissler remembers being 4 years old and on her way to ballet school when she first tried to peek through the wall.
By Henry Chu
Valentin Geissler has no memory of the wall.
By Henry Chu
The world turned upside down when Katrin Geissler was born, and it turned upside down again when she gave birth to her son, Valentin.