Conservative Party leader David Cameron has been named Britain's new prime minister, taking over from Gordon Brown who resigned. Cameron said he would seek a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

• May 12, 2010

The game’s initial phase ran fr om 1807, when Napoleon proposed to Tsar Alexander to invade British India, until 1907, when tsarist Russia and imperial Britain sat down and — like civilized Europeans — divided spheres of interest, some of which ran right through countries like Iran.

• May 12, 2010

Greece’s largest bank is relying on Turkey to pull it through an economic crisis at home.

• May 11, 2010

A special committee set up by the Moldovan parliament has accused former President Vladimir Voronin of exceeding his constitutional powers by giving police direct orders, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Moldovan Service reported.

• May 11, 2010

British air passengers may face yet more misery as a volcanic ash cloud continues to threaten European flight schedules.

• May 9, 2010

President Obama is "very concerned" about Greece's economic crisis, sees mounting threats against the United States from non-state actors and wants to resolve the dispute with Russia over adoptions, he said in an interview released Saturday by the White House.

• May 9, 2010

Victory Day in World War II. Arguably, it is not a parade of NATO troops but rather of Russia's erstwhile allies in the coalition against Adolf Hitler. Nor are parades necessarily the stuff of real politics or the harbingers of military alliances. Yet,

• May 9, 2010

No agreement on a new government is likely by Monday morning, a U.K. Conservative party spokesman said Saturday, as Liberal Democrats leader Nick Clegg met with his party to discuss a possible deal with the Conservatives.

• May 8, 2010