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Germany imposes heavy fines for online hate speech

Germany's parliament voted Friday to punish social media giants with fines of up to 50 million euros ($57 million) if they systematically fail to remove illegal hate speech.  Berlin took the measure, one of the toughest in the world, after a surge in racist and incendiary speech online,...

Man tries to drive car into crowd in front of French mosque

A man was arrested after trying to drive a car into a crowd in front of a mosque in the Paris suburb of Creteil Thursday, police said, adding that no one was injured. The man's motives were unclear, and he had not succeeded in reaching the crowd because of barriers in front of the mosque, police...