Europe

The British government has reacted sharply to the video in which one of the suspected London bombers accused democracies of "perpetuating attrocities" against Muslims.

The Arabic language television network al-Jazeera Thursday broadcast what it said is a videotape of one of the bombers, Mohammad Sidique Khan, made just before the attack.

Residents of the North Caucasus town of Beslan are preparing to remember their dead Thursday, Sept. 1, one year after rebel Chechen separatists seized a school and took more than 1,000 people hostage.

The State Department said preventing such attacks will be a critical test of Kosovo's ability to govern itself.

Twenty-five years ago, on August 31, 1980, Poland's communist government legalized the independent trade union "Solidarity."

Stanisław Dziwisz, praised the work of the late pontiff at a ceremony Saturday attended by tens of thousands of people.

During recent meeting, leaders did not agree on a way forward for loose confederation known as CIS.

There is no Russian law against personally storing human remains.

17 African immigrants, 14 of them children, died when a fire swept through a dilapidated apartment building in southern Paris early Friday.

Clothes worth millions of euros are being blocked in European warehouses after the European Union imposed quotas on ten types of textiles from China.

Home Secretary publishes list of so-called 'unacceptable behaviors' as part of series of tough new measures introduced following last month's London bombings.

A forty-year-old British guinea pig farm is to close after a six-year campaign of intimidation by animal rights extremists culminated in the remains of the family's dead mother being dug up and stolen.

US Defense Secretary says Russia-China exercises should not be seen as anything out of the ordinary.

Scotland Yard believes it has successfully identified a potential terrorist attack on the British Parliament's House of Commons being planned by al-Qa'ida.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says he will set parliamentary elections in Chechnya for November 27.