A local court in Belgium ruled on Friday that a headscarf ban at local schools was against religious freedom.  Parents of 11 students took action against a ban on the headscarf at Flemish schools in the Maasmechelen region.  The court said that it took into account...

More than one in ten French women have been raped at least once, according to a study on sexual violence published Friday as the global abuse scandal widens. Twelve percent of the 2,167 women polled by the Fondation Jean Jaures think tank said they had suffered "sexual penetration with...

German high-end carmaker BMW on Friday recalled thousands of diesel cars for a software update, after reports it had admitted to authorities they released more harmful emissions on the road than in the lab. BMW "noticed during internal testing that correctly programmed software was...

SAO PAULO, Brazil: Brazil's president says he will not run in October presidential elections and maintains that a military intervention he recently ordered was not aimed at improving his low approval ratings. President Michel Temer was asked in a Friday interview with a Sao Paulo radio...