A judge has recommended the former Catalan regional president and two others stand trial for staging a vote on Catalonia's secession from Spain and ignoring a suspension order by the Constitutional Court.
Nigel Farage, the leader of the anti-Europe U.K. Independence Party, confronted European Union parliament officials with a damning speech met with boos and jeers Tuesday, less than a week after Britain's vote to leave the EU.
The Czech Constitutional Court has overturned a law which banned individual gays and lesbians living in a registered partnership from adopting children.
An Eastern European family in Rugby finds dog excrement shoved through its mailbox. A Londoner nearly gets into a fight over drunken slurs shouted on a crowded subway car. A Polish teenager in Gloucestershire is taunted with threats of deportation at her high school.
Legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk, 48, the first known person to land a 900 trick 17 years ago, showed that he hasn’t missed a beat Monday by successfully completing the maneuver.
An Amsterdam court has approved the extradition of a Dutch man to Canada, where authorities suspect him of a string of crimes against Amanda Todd, a 15-year-old girl who drew global attention to cyberbullying when she posted a YouTube video recounting her ordeal.
A leading business group in Greece is calling on the government to loosen banking restrictions introduced a year ago when the country faced the risk of exit from the euro.
Polish historians say they want to move more than 200 communist-era monuments to Soviet troops into a former Red Army base to testify to a historic "untruth." Pawel Ukielski, deputy head of the state Institute of National Remembrance, said Tuesday that the plan covers structures put up in the 1940s and '50s to glorify the Red Army's march though Poland at the end of World War II.
A Syrian opposition monitoring group and a TV station are reporting that government forces have captured farms near the northern city of Aleppo, tightening the noose around the only gateway leading to rebel-held parts of the city.
Pope Francis is celebrating the 65th anniversary of the ordination of his predecessor, Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, with an unprecedented ceremony inside the Vatican featuring a reigning pope honoring a retired one.
A court in Singapore has sentenced the founder of a website that published anti-foreign content to eight months in jail after he pleaded guilty to sedition.
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi is calling for world leaders to agree on what ails the global economy and take more concrete action to promote growth and jobs.
The European Union ratcheted up pressure Tuesday on the U.K. to trigger negotiations to leave the bloc and end the uncertainty that has rattled stock markets.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has called for "transparency" in the upcoming trial of 48 suspects who stormed Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran in January.