German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier's spokeswoman is defending remarks he made about U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, saying it would be frightening if the Republican nominee were to be elected.
Archaeologists in Greece have made a sinister discovery on a southern mountain top dedicated to the ancient god Zeus, which might corroborate one of the darkest Greek legends.
Austria's chancellor says he remains in favor of ending EU membership talks with Turkey, despite opposition from senior EU leaders, and is looking for support for his views within the 28-nation union.
Video obtained by The Associated Press shows Ethiopian security forces beating, kicking and dragging several protesters in the capital over the weekend.
Bosnia's prosecution office says it has lodged terrorism charges against a 19-year-old man who left Bosnia with his family in 2013 as a teenager and joined the Islamic State group in Syria.
Denmark's figurehead monarch Queen Margrethe is postponing a planned state visit to Turkey citing the three-month state of emergency declared after last month's attempted coup.
Kosovo's opposition used tear gas for the second day in a row Wednesday to disrupt the work of the parliament's leadership on a pending border agreement with Montenegro.
A woman in Germany has been convicted of attempted manslaughter for stabbing a man at Munich's Oktoberfest after he uttered a racial slur at a former soccer player with whom she was attending the beer festival.
Striking workers on a British rail network have called off the final two days of a strike that has disrupted the journeys of hundreds of thousands of commuters.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday urged businessmen to come forward with any tips on suspected followers of the U.S.-based Muslim cleric he accused of orchestrating Turkey's failed coup, saying it was their "patriotic duty to expose" Gulen supporters even if they were family or friends.
Brazil's Senate has voted to put suspended President Dilma Rousseff on trial for allegedly breaking fiscal rules in her managing of the federal budget.
Police in Germany on Wedndesday launched anti-terror raids against Islamist preachers suspected of trying to recruit men to fight for ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
NATO is responding to what it calls "speculative" reports in the Turkish press, saying Turkey has the support of its NATO allies and that its membership in the alliance is not in question.
A fire ripped through a maternity ward at a Baghdad hospital overnight, killing 12 newborn babies, government officials said Wednesday, a deadly blaze that was likely caused by faulty electrical wiring.