While the Islamic State group is losing territory in its self-styled caliphate, it is tightening its grip on the estimated 3,000 women and girls held as sex slaves.
Rome police detained a homeless man in the death of a 19-year-old American as details emerged Tuesday of the student's final hours before he ended up in the Tiber River.
The race to succeed Prime Minister David Cameron as leader of the UK's Conservative Party was reduced from five to three Tuesday after a single round of voting.
Pilots tried to extinguish a fire on board the EgyptAir flight that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea in May, Egyptian investigators said Tuesday after analyzing a recovered cockpit voice recorder.
Several dozen women reported being raped or sexually assaulted at two music festivals in Sweden last weekend, according to police who said Tuesday they were investigating claims this was yet another string of attacks by refugees or foreign visitors.
The lawyer for the woman at the heart of a Vatican leaks trial says her client may not be likable, but that she shouldn't be convicted just because she's "unpleasant, insufferable, arrogant and presumptuous." Francesca Chaouqui was a member of a papal reform commission investigating Vatican finances.
Egyptian investigators say audio from the cockpit voice recorder of the EgyptAir flight that crashed in May shows that pilots attempted to put out a fire onboard.
Libya's prime minister says the United Nations is trying to impose an unworkable agreement on the country's various factions that is "screwing up" the political process and will never be accepted by parliament.
Macedonian police say they have discovered 96 migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan in an abandoned truck near the southern border town of Gevgelija.
German prosecutors say DNA found at the scene of an armored car robbery last month suggests a likely link to two former members of the disbanded leftist Red Army Faction group.
It's the first time that Syrian refugee Moustafa Shikh Habib is celebrating the end of the fasting month of Ramadan in Germany and he has bittersweet feelings about it.
The flight deck recorder of EgyptAir flight MS804 suggests attempts were made to put out a fire on board, investigation committee sources have indicated.
Iraq's interior minister says he submitted his resignation in the wake of Sunday's devastating suicide bombing in central Baghdad, which killed at least 175 people.
The European Union is urging member states to show leadership and publicly back a new trade deal with Canada after taking the unusual step of allowing national parliaments to ratify the pact.
Hungary will hold a government-initiated referendum on Oct. 2 seeking political support to oppose any European Union efforts to resettle refugees among its member states, the office of President Janos Ader said Tuesday.