A strong 5.8-magnitude quake that struck southwest of Bulgaria's capital Sofia shortly after 3:00 am (0000 GMT) Tuesday made no casualties, Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said.

A powerful earthquake shook Italy's industrial and densely populated northeast early Sunday, killing at least six people, felling homes and factories and reducing historic buildings to rubbl [ … ]

French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel stressed their desire to keep the eurozone together on Tuesday in key talks just hours after France's new leader was in [ … ]

New French President Francois Hollande called for a European pact for growth to balance out German-driven austerity measures in his inaugural address on Tuesday, hours before taking his chal [ … ]

Francois Hollande was sworn in as France's first Socialist president since 1995 on Tuesday at a solemn ceremony overshadowed by the debt crisis threatening to unravel the eurozone.

Hackers temporarily blocked President Vladimir Putin's web site on Wednesday, carrying out a promise to disrupt government information portals two days after his swearing-in for another six- [ … ]

Thousands of Russian soldiers on Wednesday marched across Red Square watched over by newly-inaugurated President Vladimir Putin to mark the 67 years since the victory over Nazi Germany in Wo [ … ]

Vladimir Putin took the oath as Russia's president on Monday with a ringing appeal for unity at the start of a six-year term in which he faces growing dissent, economic problems and bitter p [ … ]

France's president-elect Francois Hollande set about the task of building his government and ties with allies on Monday as world markets eyed political developments in the eurozone with conc [ … ]

Having pledged to pull French troops from Afghanistan early, incoming French president Francois Hollande now has to work hard to reassure NATO allies that his plan will not upend the war str [ … ]