From Paris in the eighteenth century to Saxony in the tenth, and from ancient Rome to even more ancient Greece, spanning centuries and continents, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's character, the Comte de Saint-Germain follows a sanguine trail of vampire adventures...

Prime Minister Tony Blair met with the leaders of Northern Ireland's hard-line Protestant and Catholic parties Wednesday to press for the formation of a joint administration in the territory by a late March deadline.Ian Paisley, the Protestant leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, has refused...

Business confidence in Germany rose in November for the first time since April, a closely watched survey showed Tuesday — defying analyst expectations for Europe's largest economy.Separately, the government estimated Germany's annual inflation rose to 3 percent this month — its highest level in more...

A fan is shot to death by police in Paris. A police officer dies during riots at a game in Sicily. Players are threatened with fake pistols in Germany and soccer violence plagues the sport in South America. So why do they call it the...