French anti-terrorist investigators are handling the case of a soldier stabbed while on duty in Paris, prosecutors confirm.

Italians go to the polls in two days of local elections seen as a test for the new coalition government, with the focus on Rome's mayoral vote.

French authorities are investigating whether the stabbing of a soldier in a Paris suburb was a copycat attack in the wake of the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby, killed in London this week.

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French authorities are investigating whether the stabbing of a soldier in a Paris suburb was a copycat attack in the wake of the murder of Dummer Lee Rigby, killed in London this week.

Arjen Robben scores a dramatic late winner as Bayern Munich beat Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League final.

There has been a huge increase in anti-Muslim incidents since the murder of a British soldier in London, an inter-faith charity says.

An original Apple 1 computer from 1976 - one of the first built in Steve Jobs' garage - sells at auction for more than 500,000 euros ($650,000).

A suicide bomber has blown herself up close to an interior ministry building in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan, officials say.

About 100 activists stage Ukraine's first gay pride march in the capital Kiev, describing the event as a "historic" day.

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France begins a key stage of its military withdrawal from Mali, four months after sending troops to push Islamist rebels out of the north.

UK security service MI5 asked London street attack suspect Michael Adebolajo if he wanted to work for them half a year ago, a childhood friend claims.

More than 50,000 people attend the beatification in Sicily of Don Giuseppe Puglisi, a Roman Catholic priest murdered by the mafia in 1993.

Cars and buildings are torched for a sixth night in Stockholm despite extra police being deployed, as rioting spreads to at least two other towns.

With many Middle Eastern economies in turmoil, and doom and gloom across much of Europe, Turkey seems to be bucking the trend.

Portuguese author and journalist Miguel Sousa Tavares is being investigated for calling President Anibal Cavaco Silva "a clown" in an interview.

China and Switzerland sign a memorandum of understanding on a free-trade agreement, the first such deal for China with a major Western economy.

A fifth night of violence and rioting in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, has seen a police station attacked and two schools and at least nine cars set alight.