A German court has ruled that a teacher who didn't get hired by a Berlin elementary school because she was wearing a Muslim headscarf will receive 8,680 euros ($9,250 dollars) in compensation for discrimination.
Nigeria's government is taking over the country's biggest airline, Arik Air, to "instill sanity" and prevent "a major catastrophe" in the aviation industry of Africa's most populous nation.
A Palestinian teenager opened fire and stabbed shoppers with a screwdriver at a market in central Israel wounding six people, according to the Israeli police.
French investigators have interviewed two children of conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon in an embezzlement probe into paid — but allegedly fake — political jobs.
A new study has found that the number of monarch butterflies wintering in Mexico dropped by 27 percent this year, reversing last year's recovery from historically low numbers.
Greece's long-dominant Lambrakis Press has suspended publication of top-selling daily Ta Nea due to acute financial problems which prevented the purchase of newsprint.
Juan Camacho thought he would visit Spain, take a university literature course and get to sleep in more when he retired after nearly four decades as a teacher.
A fire led to a blast in a nuclear power plant's turbine hall Thursday on France's northwest coast but there was no radiation leak or casualties, operator EDF and local authorities said.
Israeli immigration officials on Thursday interrogated for an hour a senior Jewish-American executive of a group that raises money for dovish causes on her arrival in Tel Aviv.
Britain's move to limit the entry of child refugees traveling alone triggered a backlash Thursday, with some lawmakers accusing the Conservative government of aligning the U.K. too closely with the U.S. under President Trump.