Police in southern Spain Tuesday staged raids targeting assets of the family of Syrian leader Bashar Assad, a judicial source said. The raids, in the Puerto Banus marina area of the plush resort of Marbella, are the result of a corruption investigation launched in France against Assad's...

British police said Monday they had arrested nine people after a "brutal" attack on a teenage asylum seeker involving a group up to 20 assailants in south London. Detectives, who are treating the incident as a hate crime, said the 17-year-old Kurdish Iranian boy was left with serious head...

 Chancellor Angela Merkel said refugees in Germany must respect tolerance, openness and freedom of religion, while senior members of her party called for a ban on foreign funding of mosques. Merkel, who will seek a fourth term as chancellor in what is expected to be a tight election in...

The annual Oxford-Cambridge boat race will proceed as planned Sunday after police removed an unexploded World War II-era bomb found near the start of the race on the River Thames. The bomb was discovered by a member of the public near Putney Bridge in southwest London, just meters (yards)...