A "full body scan" carried out on the Van Gogh Museum's version of the Dutch master's iconic "Sunflowers" has shown the painting is not fit to travel because it's in "stable but vulnerable" condition, the museum's director said Thursday. For Van Gogh fans who can't make it to Amsterdam, the predominantly yellow 1889 painting of a bunch of sunflowers in a vase is based on another version of the work painted a year earlier that is on display at London's National Gallery. Other versions of the work are in Philadelphia, Tokyo and Munich.

A 93-year-old former guard at the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp testified at his trial Friday that he once saw people being led into the gas chamber, followed by screaming and banging sounds behind the locked door. Bruno Dey, a former SS private, went on trial Oct. 17 at the Hamburg state court. He faces 5,230 counts of accessory to murder for killings while he was at Stutthof from 1944 to 1945.

Several high-profile leaders, including Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, will address the World Economic Forum on Wednesday amid a wider debate of the merits of populist nationalism versus global cooperation. Abe and Merkel represent internationally-minded governments keen on supporting free trade and cooperation. Their speeches to the global elite will come a day after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo extolled their governments' renewed focus on nation self-interest. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is the only U.S. representative in attendance at the annual global conference, themed 'Trust: The World's Currency.'

Import growth outpaced that of exports in October in Germany, narrowing the trade surplus of Europe's largest economy.

Marathon talks of European Union leaders dragged into a second day Monday as they sought to narrow down a list of candidates for key posts at the helm of the 28-nation bloc amid deep divisions over how to best balance political, geographic and gender considerations. With the selection process bogged down for the second EU summit meeting in a row, the leaders were still considering Dutch socialist Frans Timmermans to replace Christian Democrat Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the EU's powerful executive arm, the European Commission.

A court in Germany has found a 70-year-old babysitter guilty of manslaughter for the killing of a 7-year-old boy she was looking after.

A gunman killed three people and wounded five during a mid-morning tram ride Monday in the Dutch city of Utrecht, raising the specter of another extremist attack only days after the murderous rampage in New Zealand. Authorities seized a Turkish-born suspect after a manhunt that convulsed the historic city of nearly 350,000 people for most of the day.

Officials say a large avalanche has slammed into a hotel in southern Germany, damaging the building but causing no injuries. The hotel's 100 guests were evacuated to other dwellings in the village of Balderschwang.

Prosecutors said he abused the girls ages 4 to 12 in a pool and a changing room throughout a two-year period. They say he threatened to kill two 5-year-olds if they told their parents. Underwater video footage the instructor took of some of the acts was presented as evidence.

Berlin police say experts are examining three watercolor landscapes allegedly painted by a young Adolf Hitler to determine if they are fakes. As a young man, Hitler is thought to have painted some 2,000 pictures as he struggled to succeed as an artist in Vienna before World War I.