Researchers in Britain say they have discovered a huge helium gas field in Africa that they call a "game-changer for the future security of society's helium needs." Tuesday's statement by Oxford University says the discovery in Tanzania is the result of a new exploration approach for the precious gas that is critical to spacecraft, MRI scanners and nuclear energy.
The U.K.’s departure from the European Union will erode the status of the English language in EU institutions to the benefit of French and German, with the bloc’s executive arm already moving to ditch English from some of its official communications.
A judge has recommended the former Catalan regional president and two others stand trial for staging a vote on Catalonia's secession from Spain and ignoring a suspension order by the Constitutional Court.
Nigel Farage, the leader of the anti-Europe U.K. Independence Party, confronted European Union parliament officials with a damning speech met with boos and jeers Tuesday, less than a week after Britain's vote to leave the EU.
The Czech Constitutional Court has overturned a law which banned individual gays and lesbians living in a registered partnership from adopting children.
An Eastern European family in Rugby finds dog excrement shoved through its mailbox. A Londoner nearly gets into a fight over drunken slurs shouted on a crowded subway car. A Polish teenager in Gloucestershire is taunted with threats of deportation at her high school.
Legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk, 48, the first known person to land a 900 trick 17 years ago, showed that he hasn’t missed a beat Monday by successfully completing the maneuver.
An Amsterdam court has approved the extradition of a Dutch man to Canada, where authorities suspect him of a string of crimes against Amanda Todd, a 15-year-old girl who drew global attention to cyberbullying when she posted a YouTube video recounting her ordeal.
A leading business group in Greece is calling on the government to loosen banking restrictions introduced a year ago when the country faced the risk of exit from the euro.
Polish historians say they want to move more than 200 communist-era monuments to Soviet troops into a former Red Army base to testify to a historic "untruth." Pawel Ukielski, deputy head of the state Institute of National Remembrance, said Tuesday that the plan covers structures put up in the 1940s and '50s to glorify the Red Army's march though Poland at the end of World War II.
A Syrian opposition monitoring group and a TV station are reporting that government forces have captured farms near the northern city of Aleppo, tightening the noose around the only gateway leading to rebel-held parts of the city.
Pope Francis is celebrating the 65th anniversary of the ordination of his predecessor, Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, with an unprecedented ceremony inside the Vatican featuring a reigning pope honoring a retired one.
