The Turkish Constitutional Court on Wednesday dismissed a prosecutor's request to close down the ruling Justice and Development Party on charges that it was working to undermine the secular nature of the state.
Media watchdog Ofcom fined the BBC 400,000 pounds on Wednesday, the largest financial penalty it has ever isued against the public broadcaster, for misleading the public through fake quizzes and competitions.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's decision to resign amid corruption allegations and his own plummeting popularity has intensified doubts about Israel's prospects for reaching peace deals with the Palestinians and Syria.
Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi has reaffirmed his critical stance towards the Union for the Mediterranean - the brainchild of French President Nicolas Sarkozy - saying it will divide the 53-nation African Union.
European Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering has called on athletes taking part in the Beijing Olympics to protest against the human rights situation in Tibet.
Paris recently moved to give its citizens to right to decide on major European Union issues like expansion. The move is just the lates in European experimentation with direct democracy.
The UN Human Rights Committee has slammed France's immigration policies and expressed concern about overcrowding and poor conditions in its prisons, according to documents seen by AFP.
The Irish rejection of the Lisbon Treaty has sent shockwaves across the EU. But the treaty is still no lost cause, says German Foreign Minister Steinmeier in an exclusive essay for DW-WORLD.DE.
NATO should show Russia it would defend the Baltic states - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - in the event of attack, the US has said, as Russia's recent invasion of Georgia continues to send ripples through European security arrangements.
Russia praised the European Union on Tuesday for taking a "responsible approach" to its conflict with Georgia by refusing to impose sanctions or freeze ties with Moscow.
As Europe wrestles over how to deal with a game-changing Russia, the largest country in the world, it faces one of the oldest tactics in Moscow's diplomatic playbook: the art of divide and separate.
The Czech Republic and the United States are set to sign an agreement of the deployment of U.S. troops on Czech soil, defense official said. The agreement will be signed in London on Friday.
DW talked with EU Counterterrorism Coordinator Gilles de Kerchove about the successes and pitfalls of Europe's fight against terror, which increasingly involves the Internet
Moscow has expressed confidence that talks on a new EU-Russia partnership treaty - temporarily put on ice due to Russia's military presence in Georgia - could be resumed in October.
EU finance ministers have decided to raise minimum bank deposit guarantees across all 27-strong bloc and to take co-ordinated action to save financial institutions in a bid to calm ordinary people and markets amid the financial crisis.
The Icelandic government, fighting hard to prevent a collapse of its financial system, took control of the country's second biggest bank, Landsbanki, on Tuesday and has had to run to Russia for cash to support its currency.
The European Commission has rejected a request from the French president that commission head Barroso work to overturn the European Parliament's decision banning the cutting of internet access to websurfers who illegally download copyrighted films or music.
In a violent swerve away from the laissez-faire capitalism that has underpinned Western society for the past three decades, EU states on Monday outlined the details of a historic state bail-out of Europe's financial sector.
