The deputy prime minister defended his party in court against charges that it was steering Turkey toward Islamic rule.

A German woman missing from a retirement home for more than two months has been found safe, sunning herself on a beach in the Canary Islands, the German police said.

The government’s plans to fingerprint Gypsies living in camps in Italy, including children, drew criticism from a Catholic human rights group in Rome that warned that it would set a dangerous precedent.

The British police appealed for witnesses to help solve the killings of two French bioengineering students who were stabbed and then set on fire in their apartment in southeast London.

Six people were also wounded in heavy exchanges of fire that the Georgian government and the separatists blamed on one another, media reports and officials said.