Vienna officials won't pull plug on gay-themed traffic lights

Right-wing Freedom Party is lodging criminal complaint against councilwoman who says signals will stay permanently

• May 19, 2015

Yemen capital sees heaviest airstrikes since truce expired

More than 1,800 people killed since March 19 and half a million displaced since May 7, according to U.N. estimates

• May 19, 2015

Prince Charles shakes hands with reputed ex-IRA leader

Now-leader of the Irish nationalist Sinn Fein party, Gerry Adams meets a British royal -- unthinkable just 2 decades ago

• May 19, 2015

Portuguese cop taped beating man in front of kids

Officer being investigated over incident outside soccer match that has brought huge criticism of police

• May 19, 2015

7 arrested over brazen London jewel district heist

Police say men from 48 to 76 in age swept up in raids by more than 200 officers after high-tech vault break-in

• May 19, 2015

Afghan cops get 1 year for letting mob lynch woman

11 officers were among 49 people charged in brutal slaying of Farkhunda, young woman falsely accused of burning a Quran

• May 19, 2015

U.S. reporter facing "espionage" trial in Iran

Washington Post says charges against Jason Rezaian "not supported by a single fact," and trial could go on behind closed doors

• May 19, 2015

U.S. pilot's remains in cockpit in Cameroon a year later

The discovery of pilot Bill Fitzpatrick and his Cessna 172 in forested, mountainous terrain had initially brought some relief to his family

• May 19, 2015

Charlie Hebdo cartoonist: Work after attack "too much to bear"

One of the few artist-editors to survive the attack by al Qaeda-linked gunmen says each new issue is like "torture"

• May 19, 2015

Female peace activists to cross no man's land

American rights icon Gloria Steinem, 81, will join about 30 others in reunification march across DMZ from North to South Korea

• May 19, 2015

Asia shrugs as thousands of migrants float stateless

"We're talking here about human beings drifting at sea and gradually dying," official warns, as nations say they can take no more

• May 19, 2015

Battle for Ramadi is only likely to get worse

In the wake of ISIS militants' bloody capture of a key Iraqi city, there are fears that an effort to retake it could make matters worse

• May 19, 2015

Iraqi army regroups after losing Ramadi to ISIS

The U.N. says 25,000 civilians are fleeing the capital of Anbar province, where nearly 1,300 U.S. troops were killed during Iraq War

• May 18, 2015

Pope Francis to bishops: Stop ordering faithful around

The pope had strong words for members of the Italian bishops' conference

• May 18, 2015

Mudslide in Colombia buries town, killing dozens

"The river took out everything that was in its path," says 34-year resident of town hit by overnight disaster

• May 18, 2015

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