By Anthee Carassava, Los Angeles Times
As thousands of protesters took to the streets and violence ripped through central Athens, Greece's Parliament approved yet another round of...
By Khristina Narizhnaya, Los Angeles Times
A woman set herself on fire Sunday in front of the Moscow White House, the formal seat of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and the Russian...
By Anthee Carassava, Los Angeles Times
Under a frosty Greek moon on a still Sunday night last month, a team of black-clad cat burglars staged a heist unrivaled in this ancient...
By Anthee Carassava, Los Angeles Times
Greece's precarious financial and political situation was shaken further Friday by a nationwide strike and a wave of Cabinet resignations...
By Lauren Frayer, Los Angeles Times
Spain's new conservative government announced drastic changes to the country's labor system Friday, in some cases altering contract terms...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
This castled city where highlands and lowlands meet has been fought over many times by the Scots and the English, never more bloodily than...
By Anthee Carassava, Los Angeles Times
Greece's political leaders on Thursday agreed to a fresh series of severe spending cuts, but the deal, strung with high drama and suspense,...
By Lauren Frayer, Los Angeles Times
Spain's most famous judge, heralded abroad for seeking to put dictators behind bars, was found guilty Thursday of overstepping his authority...
By Khristina Narizhnaya, Los Angeles Times
By David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times
A U.S. proposal to step back from leading combat operations in Afghanistan by the middle of 2013 divided NATO on Thursday as some allies...
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
With his stocky frame, broad face, blue overalls and red helmet, Andrei Smirnov looks as though he just stepped from a Soviet-style postcard...
By Aaron Wiener, Los Angeles Times
Twenty years ago, a reunified Germany opened the archives of the East German secret police, the dreaded Stasi, to the public. Thousands of...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
European leaders grappling with a stubborn debt crisis reaffirmed their commitment Monday to sign a new pact limiting public spending, but...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
D'ye want me tae spaek more clearly, Siri?
By Anthee Carassava, Los Angeles Times
Legend has it that when the ancient Athenians defeated the Persians here in 490 BC, a messenger named Pheidippides ran over 25 miles of...
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
After France, the deluge?
By J. Michael Kennedy, Los Angeles Times
The object of the game is to see how hard a hand on the computer screen can slap a cartoon image of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. It...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
Crossing Scotland's iconic Forth Rail Bridge takes just two minutes. Painting the Victorian-era wonder takes forever. Or so the story goes.
By Kim WillsherLos Angeles Times
The founder of a breast implant company at the center of an international health scare was arrested Thursday in an early-morning police raid...
By Henry Chu and Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
Europe slapped a boycott on Iranian oil Monday, signaling that the Islamic Republic's second-largest market is likely to dry up as part of a...
By Lauren Frayer, Los Angeles Times
Considering how many of his friends are unemployed, electrician Javier Ramirez felt like he'd hit the jackpot when his company scored a...
Bloomberg News
European officials will forge ahead with crafting a long-term plan to tackle the region's debt crisis as banking and government...
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
Writer Vladimir Voinovich has spent decades skewering Russia's bureaucracy and power structure — and in some cases predicting the...
By Sarah Delaney, Los Angeles Times
The blame game surrounding the wreck of the Costa Concordia has spread like ripples on a tranquil Mediterranean bay.
By Don Lee, Los Angeles Times
Every summer, Volkmar and Vera Kruger spend three weeks vacationing in the south of France or at a cool getaway in Denmark. For the other...
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
By Mark Magnier and Kim Willsher, Los Angeles Times
By Janet Stobart, Los Angeles Times
Calling the espionage episode "embarrassing," a former British government official has admitted that a fake rock discovered by the Russian...
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
The movement to prevent Vladimir Putin from reclaiming the presidency and tightening his grip on Russia has barely launched, but already...
By Sarah Delaney, Los Angeles Times
As terrified passengers scrambled to avoid the icy waters, Capt. Francesco Schettino sat in a lifeboat on the phone weakly telling...
By Anthee Carassava, Los Angeles Times
Thousands of protesters fed up with economic cutbacks marched in Athens on Tuesday as a team of international debt inspectors arrived in the...
By Sarah Delaney, Los Angeles Times
Hope of finding survivors on the half-submerged Costa Concordia waned Monday after rescuers found a sixth victim, three days after the giant...
By Sarah Delaney, Los Angeles Times
Scuba divers on Sunday retrieved the bodies of two men from the submerged lower levels of shipwrecked Costa Concordia, bringing to five...
By Sarah Delaney, Los Angeles Times
Divers scoured the water for survivors and passengers told of Titanic-style pandemonium and being abandoned by crew members Saturday after a...
By Kim Willsher, Los Angeles Times
What's in a title? Plenty, according to French feminists who have persuaded a town to drop the honorific "mademoiselle" on official forms.
By Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times
Charles Price II, a banking executive who ran his family's Midwestern candy company before serving as U.S. ambassador to Belgium and then...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
The face peering from the ads and posters belongs to Meryl Streep, but the shadow that hovers over the land is definitely Margaret Thatcher'...
By W.J. Hennigan and Kim Willsher, Los Angeles Times
Standard & Poor's stripped France of its coveted AAA credit rating and downgraded eight other Eurozone countries in a sign the...
By Menelaos Hadjicostis
Reporting from Nicosia, Cyprus -- Rauf Denktash, the former Turkish Cypriot leader whose determined pursuit of a separate state for his...
Times Staff and Wire Reports
At least six people were killed when a luxury cruise ship with 4,200 passengers and crew aboard ran aground off the Italian coast and...
By John-Thor Dahlburg, Los Angeles Times
Lenin and the czar were ready. There were no cops in sight, and the sunny weather had brought out a swarm of tourists on this early winter...
By Alexandra Zavis and Alexandra Sandels, Los Angeles Times
A French television correspondent was killed Wednesday while reporting in the restive Syrian city of Homs, the first Western journalist to...
By Devorah Lauter, Los Angeles Times
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
Two white men were given life sentences Wednesday for the racially motivated murder of a black teenager nearly 19 years ago in a case that...
By Kim Willsher, Los Angeles Times
France has made it harder for foreigners to obtain French citizenship by forcing them to take a tough new language test and swear allegiance...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
It's as if someone is "holding your throat and choking you slowly."
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
After more than three weeks of public protests over fraud allegations in Russia's parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has...
By Devorah Lauter, Los Angeles Times
The holiday lights on the Champs-Elysees are in full splendor, but right off the avenue, the landmark art house movie palace, the Balzac,...
By Devorah Lauter, Los Angeles Times
Most everyone in the low-income housing projects in northern Bondy knows about "Intouchables," the hit French film about a poor black man...
By Devorah Lauter, Los Angeles Times
By David Holley, Special to the Times
Vaclav Havel, the former dissident playwright who led Czechoslovakia's 1989 "Velvet Revolution" against communism and then served as his...
By Aaron Wiener, Los Angeles Times
By Kim Willsher, Los Angeles Times
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
Tens of thousands of people fed up with Vladimir Putin's domination of Russian politics and his perceived arrogance jammed one of Moscow's...
By Devorah Lauter, Los Angeles Times
George Whitman, the legendary founder of the Paris bookshop and literary institution Shakespeare & Co., died Wednesday. He was 98.
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
Russia's ruling party appeared to have lost significant support among voters and was barely winning a majority in the lower house of...
Associated Press
Francois Lesage, the heir of the legendary
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
Over a bottle of vodka and a traditional Russian salad of pickles, sausage and potatoes tossed in mayonnaise, a group of friends raised...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
A senior clergyman resigned Monday over St. Paul's Cathedral's handling of anticapitalist protesters camped outside the church, the second...
From the Associated Press
The body of a woman wearing a life vest was recovered by Italian coast guard divers Saturday from a narrow underwater corridor of the...
