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Even his best friend betrayed him.
Pity Europe's Socialists. It's getting lonely on the left.
Pope Benedict XVI wrapped up a low-key pilgrimage to the fiercely secular Czech Republic on Monday, reaching out to nonbelievers and calling on an increasingly diverse Europe to embrace Christian teachings.
Czechs feel betrayed, Poles irked, Romanians slighted. Ask them who's to blame, and the answer may come as a surprise: President Barack Obama.
OPEC is leaving its production quotas unchanged, opting to take a cautious approach in a market awash in crude and a global economy still in the early stages of recovery.
Austrians could be forgiven for bristling at "Bruno."
U.S. and British investigators have joined Austrian prosecutors in examining possible ties between a Vienna fund manager and disgraced financier Bernard Madoff, whose multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme wiped out thousands of investors and charities worldwide, an official said Monday.
The U.S. and Canada challenged Iran's claims that hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won re-election, but much of the rest of the world remained silent Saturday despite claims of fraud and scenes of clashes on the streets of Tehran.
From Egypt's order that all 300,000 pigs in the country be slaughtered to travel bans and putting the kibosh on kissing, the world is taking drastic — and some say debatable — measures to combat swine flu.
Italy's breathtaking Adriatic coastline is usually a carefree playground — but not for the thousands of earthquake refugees like Fabio Gianfelice seeking refuge in beachfront hotels.
In the shadows of an earthquake-ravaged church, Marisa Giacomo fingered a rosary Wednesday as she sat among a pile of plastic bags stuffed with a few hastily salvaged possessions.
Some stumbled around dazed, still wearing the pajamas they fled in. Others wept or stared at heart-wrenching items jutting out of a pile of rubble three stories high: a child's shattered guitar, a little girl's play stroller — a bloodstained mattress.
It's not easy to say "Velvet Revolution" in Czech, but President Barack Obama came off sounding almost like a native speaker.
Sharpshooters scouted out positions on Prague's red tile rooftops and police stepped up patrols across the Czech capital Saturday as authorities tightened security for President Barack Obama's weekend summit with leaders of European Union countries.
They won't take prisoners from Guantanamo. And the prime minister dissed the Obama administration's economic plan as a "road to hell." With friends like the Czechs, President Barack Obama might be tempted to wonder, who needs enemies?
Europeans and Americans don't always see eye to eye — and how to solve the global financial crisis is no exception.
If anyone ever stood a chance of escaping the global financial crisis, it might have been Almija Muminovic.
America's European allies pledged Friday to send more police trainers and cash to Afghanistan, but shied away from deploying more troops on a long-term basis in response to a renewed U.S. push to end the war.
Long before Josef Fritzl and the horrendous crimes in his dungeon, Austria was maligned for its Nazi past, its right-wing politics and another high-profile abduction case.
Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan carried out their first joint counter-narcotics operation this week, pooling intelligence to arrest suspects and seize drugs in an unprecedented show of cooperation, U.N. officials disclosed Wednesday.
A German politician involved in a fatal collision with a fellow skier at the intersection of two trails in Austria was convicted Tuesday of negligent homicide.
Giant steel letters still spell out an exultant "NEWBORN" on a downtown square in Kosovo's gritty capital. But a year after the majority Albanian territory defiantly declared independence from Serbia, the elation has given way to frustration.
Barack Obama got a global standing ovation long before he was elected president. But in a fickle and fast-moving world, the overseas reviews are already turning mixed.
Stefan Markovic slipped and stumbled on Belgrade's icy streets and cursed both the Russians and the Ukrainians for the bad air he's breathing.
Muriz Jukic keeps reliving the day last winter when his tractor hit a land mine, unleashing shrapnel that tore one of his eyes from its socket and left him stumbling and screaming.
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