Nicolas Sarkozy injected glamour and energy into the French presidency — and yet also inspired so much anger and resentment that French voters refuse to let him have it back.
Anti-corruption prosecutors have charged two former managers of Microsoft Romania and the former manager of Fujitsu Siemens Computers in Romania on suspicion of abusing their positions for illicit gain which cost the state $67 million.
An Israeli government body says Israel is to carry out the first step in the planned demolition of a sprawling Bedouin Arab village in the southern desert.
Since quashing a July coup attempt, Turkey's president has used extraordinary powers from a state of emergency to arrest and purge thousands of opponents.
Montenegro's prosecutors say two Russian citizens are among those suspected of involvement in an alleged election day plot to assassinate the country's prime minister and take power because of his government's NATO membership bid.
Hundreds of Egypt's ethnic minority Nubians have blocked a main road in the country's south to protest the government's plan to sell land they claim to be their ancestral territory.
Indonesian authorities have warned conservative Muslim groups from holding a rally next month that they believe will have a hidden agenda of treason against the government.
A handwritten letter has been found in a German archive in which President-elect Donald Trump's grandfather unsuccessfully fought his expulsion from the country for failing to perform mandatory military service.
With Britain's exit from the European Union looming, Scottish officials are visiting Liechtenstein to explore the tiny Alpine country's arrangements that give it access to the massive EU market.
German officials say they will enter negotiations with three bidders on the sale of the Hahn regional airport outside Frankfurt — a process that was restarted from scratch after its planned sale to a Chinese company was scrapped last year.
The death toll from India's worst train accident in years rose to 145 on Monday, as rescuers used cranes to lift the twisted metal wreckage to check for more bodies underneath.