He was the first victim in the attack on a Berlin Christmas market — a 37-year-old Polish truck driver who was seemingly stabbed and shot to death in the cabin of his truck.
ISIS claimed responsibility Tuesday for a series of shooting attacks on police and tourists in Jordan on Sunday that killed 10 people, including a woman from Canada.
Gambia's ambassador to the United States says he is being recalled, a week after urging President Yahya Jammeh to respect election results and peacefully hand over power.
A Jordanian military judge has sentenced to death a former mosque prayer leader who gunned down an outspoken writer on the steps of a courthouse earlier this year.
Swiss police said they have found no radical Islamist or far-right motives for a gunman who killed himself after a shooting spree at Zurich mosque Monday that wounded three worshippers.
The dollar's upward march is sending the euro currency to its lowest level in 14 years, easing the financial pressure on traveling Americans but giving European exporters a boost.
The manhunt for perpetrators of the attack on Christmas market in Berlin at killed at least 12 continues as Germany officials said they cannot rule out that suspects involved could still be at large.
Austrian public prosecutors say they are investigating a Moroccan asylum-seeker suspected of "participation in a terrorist organization." A statement from the Salzburg prosecutor's office says police received information that the suspect and others discussed planning "an apparent terrorist attack" in Salzburg over the Christmas or New Year period.
In an effort to prevent a repeat of last year’s string of robberies and sexual assaults that end-of-the-year celebrations in Cologne, city and law enforcement officials are planning to increase police presence and are even emptying more jail cells.
The extremist Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a series of shooting attacks in Jordan that killed nine Jordanians and a Canadian tourist.
Union officials say a strike by unpaid workers has halted flights of Nigeria's biggest airline, stranding thousands of passengers days before Christmas.