New, tougher EU rules on processing asylum-seekers have prompted Italian police to abuse some migrants, including beating them and giving them electric shocks, according to a report published Thursday by Amnesty International.
Geneva authorities have confiscated 11 luxury vehicles and sports cars belonging to the son of Equatorial Guinea's president as part of a preliminary investigation into alleged corruption.
French financial prosecutors have asked judges to send HSBC and two former executives to trial on charges of aggravated tax fraud by its Swiss private bank.
A Muslim rebel leader has come out of three years of hiding in the southern Philippines to meet the president who reached out to him as part of efforts to tame a decadeslong Muslim rebellion.
Pakistan's foreign ministry spokesman says eight Indian diplomats at the Indian Embassy in Islamabad were part of what Pakistan claims is a spying network in the mission.
Mired in a multi-year recession and bitter loan talks with the International Monetary Fund, it would appear a strange time for Belarus to take on the burden of hosting a major sports event.
Pope Francis has welcomed a multi-faith delegation at the Vatican, using the occasion to condemn terrorist attacks and other violence committed in the name of religion.
German shoe and sports gear company Adidas saw its third-quarter net profit rise 24 percent as double-digit sales increases across most markets overcame negative effects related to exchange-rate shifts.
Syrian rebels say clashes have subsided between rival rebel factions in the city of Aleppo where the eastern, rebel-held districts face a looming assault by pro-government forces.
Secondhand T-shirts, jeans and dresses are piled high for blocks along the busy streets in Dakar's Colobane neighborhood, where people buy donated European and American fashions at a fraction of their original price.
