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PARIS -- Dozens of museum attendants at the Louvre went on strike on Thursday to protest what they said was the museum's poor handling of crowds at a temporary exhibition [...]

PARIS -- Michel Onfray, a best-selling French pop philosopher, was sounding pretty upbeat on the phone, even though the title of his latest book is ''Decadence: The Life and Death [...]

PARIS -- The German director Maren Ade's breakout film, ''Toni Erdmann,'' has won over audiences and racked up awards across Europe. An uncharacterizable father-daughter story that's also about neoliberal economic [...]

CANNES, France -- Last year's Cannes Film Festival was abuzz with the ''heel gate'' microscandal after a security guard reportedly wouldn't let women wearing flats onto the red carpet. This [...]

BERLIN -- The 66th annual Berlin International Film Festival wrapped up over the weekend. But perhaps more gripping than any drama onscreen is the one playing out in Germany itself, [...]

BERLIN -- The 66th annual Berlin International Film Festival opens Thursday with the European premiere of the Coen brothers' latest caper, ''Hail, Caesar.'' But the Berlinale has always been the [...]

PARIS -- On Wednesday morning, May Zhang, a tourist from Shanghai, was outside the Louvre using a selfie stick to snap photographs with a friend. The courtyard is normally packed [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDMilan -- At the New York Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1853, the potato chip made its big debut. The Pan-American Exposition of 1901 in Buffalo introduced the X-ray machine. [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDBRUSSELS -- Julien Meert, a 32-year-old painter from Brussels, remembers the moment when he realized his hometown had become a major spot on the international art map. ''It was [...]

ISTANBUL -- At a glittering dinner on an island in the Bosporus here last week, Ali Gureli, the chairman of Contemporary Istanbul, the city's annual art fair, told hundreds of [...]

PARIS -- When he was 18, the South African artist Bogosi Sekhukhuni sought out his father, whom he had never met, on Facebook. It didn't go well. They had a […]

CORRECTION APPENDEDBUDAPEST -- Ivan Fischer is best known as a first-class conductor whose Budapest Festival Orchestra has entranced audiences worldwide. Last week, Mr. Fischer took on a new role -- [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDBUDAPEST -- Ivan Fischer is best known as a first-class conductor whose Budapest Festival Orchestra has entranced audiences worldwide. Last week, Mr. Fischer took on a new role -- [...]

ROME -- On a sweltering recent morning here, customers from around the world crowded the aisles of the food market in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele near Rome's central train station, shopping [...]

PERDASDEFOGU, Italy -- On a recent Sunday afternoon, hundreds of villagers gathered in this tiny Sardinian town for a Mass to celebrate the 100th birthday of Claudina Melis, one of [...]

ROME -- Just when Italians thought their politics could not get any stranger, on Tuesday they did. That was when members of the Five Star Movement of Beppe Grillo decided [...]

VATICAN CITY -- By choosing the first pope from the New World, the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church sent a strong message of change: that the future of the [...]

ROME -- In recent years, recession and financial turmoil have felled governments throughout Europe as voters looked for change in an era of economic distress. Now, experts are asking whether [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDROME -- For months, he has been shouting his way from piazza to piazza, drawing tens of thousands as he rails against tax collectors, corrupt politicians and financial speculation. [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDROME -- As Prime Minister Mario Monti prepares to exit the stage, he has burnished Italy's image -- and his own -- abroad, but he is less beloved at [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDATHENS -- A dynamic entrepreneur, Lavrentis Lavrentiadis seemed to represent a promising new era for Greece. He dazzled the country's traditionally insular business world by spinning together a multibillion-dollar [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDATHENS -- A dynamic entrepreneur, Lavrentis Lavrentiadis seemed to represent a promising new era for Greece. He dazzled the country's traditionally insular business world by spinning together a multibillion-dollar [...]

ATHENS -- The three-party coalition of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras was licking its wounds on Thursday, after the defections of several key members in a crucial vote on austerity measures. [...]

ROME -- Prime Minister Mario Monti of Italy said Thursday that Italy was working hard to avoid having to take the European Central Bank up on its offer to buy [...]

BERLIN -- The top leaders of Germany and Italy plan to meet Wednesday as part of an intense round of shuttle diplomacy before several critical decisions that face Europe. The [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED ATHENS -- As Greek political leaders assembled a caretaker government Wednesday to usher in new elections next month, bankers across Athens were monitoring a worrisome development: the continued [...]

BERLIN -- As gridlock among Greece's political parties made new elections and another month of uncertainty there all but inevitable, European markets dropped significantly on Monday amid concerns that Greece's [...]

ATHENS -- With Greece hurtling toward new elections and a possible exit from the euro zone, President Karolos Papouliasprepared to make a last-ditch appeal on Monday for the country's sharply [...]

ROME -- Prime Minister Mario Monti on Wednesday pushed back Italy's balanced budget target by a year, amid a deepening recession that economists say has been worsened by new austerity [...]

ATHENS -- On a recent morning in the upper-middle-class neighborhood of Papagou here, members of the Greek ultranationalist group Golden Dawn stood at an outdoor vegetable market campaigning for the [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED SILAO, Mexico -- Pope Benedict XVI landed here Friday, starting his first trip to Spanish-speaking Latin America with a warm greeting from Mexico's president, Felipe Calderon, and thousands [...]

ROME -- Assunta Linza, a bright-eyed 33-year-old with a college degree in psychology, has been unemployed since June, after losing a temporary job as a call-center operator. Her father, who [...]

ATHENS -- With the ink not yet dry on a complex agreement to write down more than $130 billion of Greek debt, Greece's political leaders leaped into full campaign mode [...]

ATHENS -- After violent protests left dozens of buildings aflame in Athens, the Greek Parliament voted early on Monday to approve a package of harsh austerity measures demanded by the [...]

ATHENS -- Talks between Prime Minister Lucas Papademos and the three political leaders in his government stalled early Thursday, but the leaders pledged to resume talks in order to reach [...]

CHIOS, Greece -- Nikos Gavalas and Alexandra Tricha, both 31 and trained as agriculturalists, were frustrated working on poorly paying, short-term contracts in Athens, where jobs are scarce and the [...]

ROME -- Telling Italians that the fate of their country and the euro was at stake, Prime Minister Mario Monti unveiled a radical and ambitious package of spending cuts and [...]

ROME -- As dubious European bond markets looked on, a former member of the European Commission and well-respected economist, Mario Monti, was sworn in as prime minister and finance minister [...]

ROME -- Mario Monti, a former member of the European Commission, conditionally accepted a mandate on Sunday to form a new government in Italy whose main task will be to [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED ATHENS -- The government of Prime Minister George Papandreou teetered on the verge of collapse on Tuesday, threatening Greece's adherence to the terms of a new deal with [...]

COMITINI, Italy -- With only 960 residents and a handful of roads, this tiny hilltop village in the arid, sulfurous hills of southern Sicily does not appear to have major [...]

ROME -- Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government has kicked into high gear, working over the August holidays to find ways to eliminate Italy's budget deficit by 2013 as it pledged [...]

ROME -- Italians may have headed to the beach for their sacrosanct summer holidays, but a storm may be brewing offshore. High debt, rising interest rates and low growth are [...]