An Egyptian court Wednesday slapped six former police officers with prison terms after finding them guilty of having tortured a citizen to death in 2012, according to a local judicial source.  "Western Cairo’s Giza criminal court sentenced one former police officer to five years in...

Three French schoolchildren were hurt in the attack near London's parliament on Wednesday, French officials said. The three were students aged around 15 or 16 of the Concarneau Lycee in Brittany, western France, according to a report in Le Telegramme regional newspaper. Prime Minister...

Austria's interior minister is doubling the payment for some migrants who voluntarily return to their home countries to 1,000 euros ($1,080.) Wolfgang Sobotka says the added financial incentive is part of plans to repatriate 50,000 migrants who do not qualify for at least temporary residence...

The president of Emirates, the Middle East's biggest airline, defended security measures at its Dubai hub Wednesday and said that the ban on electronics other than mobile phones in the cabins of U.S.-bound flights came as a surprise. Tim Clark told The Associated Press that he only learned...