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Police said a double-decker bus crashed into a bus stop in the Östermalm district of central Stockholm on Friday afternoon, killing several people and detaining the driver as investigations continued.

Anders Nilsson, Steven H. Seggie

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A double-decker bus struck a bus shelter on Valhallavägen in Östermalm, central Stockholm on Friday, killing several people and injuring others, police said.

Ghislaine Maxwell received unusually privileged treatment at a U.S. federal prison, prompting renewed questions about unequal treatment of high-profile inmates.

Rebecca Tushnet, Elise Thomas

Police shot a knife-wielding man at Paris's Montparnasse train station after he threatened people and inflicted self-cut wounds, authorities said.

Courts in Germany, Belgium and France sentenced several men, including sports coaches, to prison for sexual abuse of children, with sentences ranging from months to nearly ten years.

Steve Peers

A mother and her two children from Hamburg died and the father was left critically ill in Istanbul after eating street food, authorities said, as investigators probed suspected food poisoning.

Mossos d'Esquadra said they investigated the death of a woman in a Barcelona hospital on Friday as a gender-based killing after injuries from an October 18 assault by her partner.

Spain’s National Police dismantled a five-storey trafficking network operating as a macro-brothel on Paseo de las Delicias in Madrid’s Arganzuela, detaining 16 and freeing over 60 women.

In Marseille on Thursday, gunmen on a motorcycle killed 20-year-old Mehdi Kessaci, brother of activist Amine Kessaci, and the public prosecutor opened an inquiry for organised gang murder.

Il Comune di Roma ha disposto che da lunedì 17 la viabilità in piazza Venezia diventasse a senso unico per i lavori della Metro C, fino a luglio 2031.

Three members of a Hamburg family died and the father was critically ill in Istanbul after authorities said they likely suffered food poisoning from street food bought at a market.

A new survey found nearly one in ten adults in Germany used cannabis, with consumption rising since April 2024's partial legalization, though researchers said causation remained unclear.

Benjamin Hansen

A 57-year-old prison officer from Beringen was sentenced to three years in prison and fined €1,200 after a court found he accepted bribes and smuggled goods into Hasselt prison.