Romanian President Traian Basescu apologized Monday for calling a journalist a "stinky Gypsy" during a conversation recorded on the reporter's cell phone and broadcast on local television. Basescu was ...

CLUJ-NAPOCA, Romania — In the Somesheni neighborhood in the Transylvanian capital city of Cluj-Napoca, nine Catholic Gypsy families live inside un-insulated metal boxes that act like iceboxes in the ...

BUCHAREST, Romania -- Since the European Union lifted visa requirements for Romanians in January, with a view to Romania's eventually joining the EU, thousands of Gypsies have flooded European cities, ...

It's a Gypsy wedding, and the 15-year-old bride is mourning shattered dreams of studying medicine as she steels herself for a life more Middle Ages than Modern Times. A schoolgirl just weeks ago, she ...

BUCHAREST, RomaniaBUCHAREST, Romania — What’s in a name? An insult, according to Romania’s Gypsies who are pushing for the nation’s leading dictionary to add “pejorative” to its definition of the word ...

BUCHAREST, RomaniaBUCHAREST, Romania — Romania’s president has signed a law making Feb. 20 an official holiday to mark when the slavery of Gypsies, or Roma, was abolished. There are believed to be 1.5 ...

A Romanian Gypsy leader on Wednesday compared French President Nicolas Sarkozy to Romania’s pro-Nazi wartime leader, following the expulsion of hundreds of Gypsies from France. Speaking during an ...

Fewer and fewer nomadic gypsies still wander the roads of Romania as people have stopped buying their traditional hand-made pans and buckets. Most Romas abandoned the gypsy way of life and left to ...

BARBULESTI, Romania (AP) — This predominantly Gypsy town an hour's drive from Romania's bustling capital seems stuck in another century. Horse-drawn carriages churn muddy roads into near impassability ...