Top seed Maria Sharapova made a surprise exit from the WTA Paris Open when she was beaten in the quarterfinals Friday by German ninth seed Angelique Kerber.

A German court has sentenced an Islamic extremist responsible for the deaths of two U.S. airmen at a Frankfurt, Germany, airport to life in prison.

Is it just harmless fun, or is something seriously wrong developing in sporting relations between Spain and France?

Europe remained gripped by frigid temperatures and snow Friday, with the icy weather closing much of the Danube River to shipping and disrupting travel across the region.

A Norwegian court ordered Anders Behring Breivik, charged with killing 77 people last July, to undergo a month-long psychiatric evaluation as experts seek to determine his mental state ahead of a trial.

Greek police and protesters clashed Friday as lawmakers faced tough new conditions they must meet before eurozone finance ministers will give them billions of euros to bail out the debt-ridden country.

Eurozone finance ministers dismissed cuts as incomplete and sent the country's finance minister back to Athens with a fresh set of demands and an urgent deadline.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday declined to hear an emergency application for a stay filed by a Florida deep-sea salvage company that wanted to maintain possession of a half billion dollars worth of gold and silver coins until a final decision is made about who owns them.

The new Romanian government passed a confidence vote in Parliament on Thursday, with 237 votes for and two against. Opposition members of Parliament refused to vote.

Nine men were jailed in London Thursday on terror charges, four of them over "an al Qaeda-inspired plot" to bomb the London Stock Exchange, UK police said.

Spain's best known judge will be suspended for 11 years from the bench after his conviction Thursday for improperly investigating a financial corruption case, the nation's Supreme Court ruled.

Syria is heading to an "intolerable situation" according to Turkey's hyperactive Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, whose country is at the forefront of global efforts to engineer the downfall of the Bashar Al-Assad leadership.

With 20 million extra trips on public transport expected during the London 2012 Summer Games, companies are experimenting with flexible working to keep employees off the roads and out of the tube, London's subway system.

Voice mails left by Paul McCartney for his then-girlfriend Heather Mills were illegally accessed and heard by a former employee of a major British newspaper group, Mills told an independent investigation into press ethics Thursday.

As Ukraine suffers in the grip of a brutal winter, the country's ambulance service is inundated with calls for help.

Germany is expelling four members of the Syrian Embassy, citing the arrest this week of two men suspected of spying on Syrian opposition groups in Germany, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said in a statement released Thursday.

Representatives of eurozone bail-out lenders are scrambling to finalize an agreement with the Greek government after last-minute demands by Athens threatened to upend the deal.

A dispute over pension cuts stalled talks between leaders of Greece's government on new austerity measures, one of the last hurdles to be cleared before eurozone officials can sign off on a ?130B ($172B) bailout.

A British man suspected of stealing an armored van containing 1 million pounds in England 19 years ago was arrested Wednesday morning by U.S. authorities in southwest Missouri, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman said.

Britain's Prince Harry is now qualified to fly an Apache Attack helicopter in combat, after 18 months of intensive training that included a stint flying above the deserts of California and Arizona, palace and defense officials said.