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Germany's NATO commander resigns after caught lying about massacre By Robert Weller A leading NATO commander from Germany and a junior defense minister have resigned after video footage was released revealing that many Afghan civilians were killed in an air...

In what would be a dastardly first, Norway has accused Iranian authorities of stealing a Nobel Peace Prize. The prize belongs to Iranian national Shirin Ebadi, a human rights lawyer who received the honor in 2003. “The medal and the...

Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro outgunned Roger Federer in London on Thursday...S biography failed to mention drug-taking, tanking, wigs or bogeymen. The first three omissions were because, unlike Andre Agassi, he was unfamiliar with the lot of them.

Catholic authorities in Ireland covered up sexual abuse by priests for decades in an effort to protect the church, according to a damning government report. The report, which looks into allegations of child sex abuse against 46 Dublin-area priests over...

Frenchman Michel Barnier will take charge of the internal market portfolio in the next European Commission, a post that will include oversight of the EU's financial sector. The announcement by commission president Jose Manuel Barroso on Friday (27 November) is...

Christopher Furlong/Getty Images The Prince of Wales will fly the flag for "Christmas in Cumbria" today, as hundreds of mourners are expected to pay tribute to the police officer, Bill Barker, who was swept away in the Workington floods. Prince...

ING priced a rights issue intended to raise 7.5 billion euros ($11.2 billion) at 4.24 euros per share, luring shareholders with a hefty discount of close to 40 percent as it looks to pay back state aid. Europe's biggest insurer...

What Mr Cuthbert and his mates were saying in private last night was probably something rather different. It's not exaggerating too much to think it may have been something more along the lines of: "Hooway the lads from Ofwat. Cheers"...

Germany's labor minister says he is resigning from the Cabinet amid the fallout from an airstrike in northern Afghanistan that already cost the head of the armed forces his job. Franz Josef Jung was defense minister at the time of...