A top South Korean model who was a fixture at fashion week in Paris and London was found dead at her apartment in Paris, an official said Friday.

France's foreign minister walked into a remote Afghan village on Friday to talk with small farmers and local tribal leaders about how to bypass corrupt officials and bring aid directly to those who need it.

Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker and former Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga are in the running as European Union leaders struggle to pick the bloc's first president today.

Russia's Constitutional Court extended a 13-year-old moratorium on the death penalty on Thursday, just weeks before it was due to expire.

A zoo official says a rare white tiger has been killed by two lions in a zoo in northern Czech Republic.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown came under fire from members of his own party Thursday after unveiling a voter-friendly agenda designed to boost their chances at next year's general election.

A 13-year-old French boy set out Tuesday to mow down his teachers with a shotgun but abandoned the plan when he arrived at the school and found it surrounded by police, officials said.

Leaders of the European Union and Russia were holding a summit Wednesday on energy security, climate change, trade and human rights — with both sides hoping the talks would help patch up battered relations.

A Russian icebreaker carrying over 100 tourists, scientists and journalists on a cruise around Antarctica was struggling to free itself from sea ice but was not in any danger, a shipping company said Tuesday.

Rockets slammed into a market northeast of Kabul on Monday, killing 12 civilians but missing their presumed target: a meeting between France's top general in Afghanistan and dozens of tribal elders and senior local officials.