Smashed windows and cars on fire -- one of Europe's most peaceful capitals, Stockholm, is witnessing its worst outbreak of violence in years. Hundreds of youths, mostly immigrants, have ripped through the city's suburbs in four nights of unrest. T...

The president of the Associated Press has sent a strongly worded letter of protest to US Attorney General Eric Holder after the Department of Justice acknowledged seizing two months of phone records of reporters and editors. The department offere...

With youth unemployment near 50% and people with jobs facing pay cuts, emigration from Portugal is soaring. Many have fled the debt-battered economy for booming former colonies including Brazil, where young emigrants say they have a much better ch...

South Africa's OppiKoppi music festival has found a peaceful -- though potentially still somewhat explosive -- new use for drones. In a trial program, concertgoers will be able to have beers delivered by a guided "beer drone" that will drop its pa...

A group of white supremacists -- one of them holding an apartheid-era South African flag -- were surrounded and confronted by a larger group of anti-racists as they held a May Day protest outside the White House. Police made one arrest after the g...

A Boeing 747 cargo aircraft seems to hang in the air mid-climb before plunging to the ground and exploding in flames just minutes after takeoff at Bagram Air Field near Kabul. All seven US crewmembers aboard were killed.The plane was loaded with m...

At least 38 people have been killed in a horrific blaze at a Moscow-region psychiatric hospital. Only three people made it out of the building alive and, as in many previous Russian fire disasters, barred windows and lax safety standards are belie...

Drones and other machines capable of targeting and killing humans autonomously are too close to becoming reality, Human Rights Watch warns. The group has launched a global Campaign to Stop Killer Robots to press for an international ban on such ma...

Paris protesters clashed with riot police after the French parliament passed a historic, controversial law allowing same-sex couples to marry and to adopt children. Applause erupted in the National Assembly when the bill passed 331 to 225, but pro...

Has the North Caucasus conflict reached the US? The Boston bomb suspects have been identified as Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, brothers of Chechen origin. Their family emigrated to the US more than a decade ago and it's not clear whether they ha...