Europe

Jewish and Muslim leaders from Germany led a memorial for the victims of the Auschwitz death camp on the 74th anniversary of Nazi deportations from the Litzmannstadt ghetto. The ceremony was part of an educational tour....

Germany is trying to boost cyber defense with the Bundeswehr’s Cyber and Information Domain Service (CIDS), against the background of rising numbers of cyberattacks as well as funding and recruitment challenges. Along a broad, tree-lined avenue...

A German woman and her partner have been jailed after prostituting a 9-year-old boy to pedophiles they found online. Investigators say it’s one of the most horrific child abuse cases they’ve ever seen. A court in...

A homeless man living in Benidorm allegedly paid €100 (£89) by a British stag group to have the groom’s name tattooed on his forehead has said he accepted the offer out of desperation. Tomek, 34, who met the...

Two people have died from apparent heatstroke in Spain and parts of the country are on red alert as the first heatwave of the summer tightens its grip on the Iberian peninsula, with temperatures as high as 45C...

ROME — Pope Francis has declared the death penalty inadmissible in all cases “because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person,” the Vatican announced on Thursday, in a shift in Roman...

Pre-school Berliners are to be given free childcare in a move expected to make the German capital even more attractive to young families. The city is the first of Germany’s 16 states to abolish fees, in a...

Reports that Germany is willing to offer Theresa May a vague Brexit deal so as to prevent the UK crashing out of the EU with no deal have sent alarm bells ringing in the Remain campaign in the...

Geraint Thomas has been hailed as “Le Prince de Galles” and “Le cyclist next door” by French papers after winning his first Tour de France. But as the 32-year-old arrived back in Britain following a heavy night of...

A study of five countries has found that while the picture of anti-Semitic attitudes is complex, Jews feel under threat. However, the researchers point out that no single group is more clearly anti-Semitic than another. The...