BAKU — European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso, visiting Azerbaijan to secure gas supplies for the EU, said on Friday that Baku has expressed support for an ambitious European pipeline project.

Five men in Cardiff were among 12 arrested yesterday by counter-terrorism detectives acting to prevent an alleged plot to attack multiple targets in the UK. Three of the suspects were detained early yesterday morning in Riverside in Cardiff, an area...

The men – five from Cardiff, four from Stoke and three from London – were detained on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism in Britain.

STRASBOURG — Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci was one of the key players in the traffic of organs of Serb prisoners after the 1998-99 conflict there, according to allegations in a draft Council of Europe report.

The British millionaire businessman who owns the firm Segway has been found dead at the bottom of a cliff with one of the two-wheeled electric scooters near his body, police said on Monday. Jimi Heselden, 62, who bought the U.S.-based firm, and who was...

An alleged threat to Pope Benedict XVI led to the pre-dawn arrests of five men in London on Friday on the second day of the pontiff’s trip to Britain, police said. The Vatican said the pope was calm and so far planned no changes to his...

The body of a senior Rwandan opposition politician has been found in wetlands near his abandoned car, his political party said on Wednesday.

An experimental solar-powered plane whose makers hope to one day circle the globe using only energy collected from the sun took off for its first 24-hour test flight Wednesday. The plane with its 262.5-foot (80-meter) wingspan left Payerne airfield in...

Russia on Wednesday further reduced natural gas supplies to ex-Soviet neighbor Belarus over what it claims is a debt of nearly US$200 million. Alexei Miller, the chief of Russia’s state-controlled natural gas monopoly Gazprom, said the company...

Surgeons in Barcelona’s Vall d’Hebron Hospital claim to have performed the world’s first full face transplant. The unnamed patient has received an entirely new face, including skin, muscle tissue, lips, nose, jaw, teeth, and cheek...