A German union representing cabin crew says it plans to stage strikes at Lufthansa's budget offshoot Eurowings over the next two weeks in a dispute over pay and conditions.
Austrian Airlines says that a crack in a cockpit windshield forced one of its flights from Cyprus to Vienna to make an unscheduled landing in Belgrade, leaving passengers to spend the night in the Serbian capital.
A Pakistani government official says rescuers have retrieved the bodies of two Chinese engineers from a mine weeks after they were trapped while trying to rescue a Pakistani co-worker.
The Russian military says it has conducted drills involving state-of-the art missiles near the nation's western border, amid tensions in relations with the West.
A man charged in the death of a New Zealand tourist who plummeted from his apartment balcony after the two began arguing during a date was found not guilty of murder on Thursday.
Spain's top court has overruled a local ban against bullfighting in the powerful northeastern region of Catalonia, saying it goes against a national law protecting the spectacle.
Floods, drought, frost and hail cut into world wine production this year across Europe and South America, but the quality of the 2016 vintage shouldn't unduly suffer.
A new study shows that global spending on luxury goods was flat this year, hampered by global uncertainties including the U.S. presidential elections and the terror threat in Europe.
Hungarian authorities said they have detained a man suspected of setting off a homemade fragmentation bomb which seriously injured two policemen last month in Budapest.
The European Space Agency says it still hasn't received any signal from its experimental Mars lander since shortly before it was meant to reach the red planet's surface.
Just days into the operation to retake the Islamic State-held city of Mosul, a fault-line has widened between Iraq and Turkey, and the distrust among the various forces arrayed against the extremists has again bubbled to the surface.