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10 dead, 11 missing as Spanish trawler sinks off C...
At least 10 fishermen died and 11 others were missing Tuesday after a trawler from Spain sank in rough seas off eastern Canada, of...
US priest used wrong baptism words for 26 years
Thousands of Catholics in the United States may have to be re-baptized after the church discovered a priest had gotten one word wr...
Altria says it won US antitrust ruling on Juul sta...
Tobacco giant Altria said Tuesday it prevailed over a US regulatory agency that challenged its investment in vaping company Juul o...
Volcano damage to Tonga undersea cable worse than...
The volcanic eruption near Tonga shredded an 80-kilometre (50 mile) stretch of undersea cable, complicating efforts to reconnect t...
Ex-policeman charged in Floyd death defends action...
A former Minneapolis police officer charged with violating the civil rights of George Floyd took the witness stand on Tuesday to d...
Up to 20 years in jail for Cuban protesters: right...
Twenty Cubans who had participated in unprecedented anti-government protests last year, including five minors, have been sentenced...
Honduran ex-president arrested as US seeks extradi...
Honduran ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez, whose extradition is sought by the United States for alleged ties with drug traffick...
France approves returning 15 artworks stolen from...
The French senate Tuesday approved the return of 15 artworks looted from Jews during World War II, as part of efforts by the gover...
Sandy Hook families settle with gunmaker for $73 m...
Families of nine victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting have reached a $73-million settlement with US gunmaker Remington, in a...
Meta agrees $90 mn settlement in Facebook privacy...
Facebook-parent Meta has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a 10-year-old lawsuit accusing it of tracking users online even after...
'His reputation will never recover': Prince Andrew...
Prince Andrew's out of court settlement with his sexual assault accuser halts the highly damaging US legal battle, but effectively...
Sandy Hook families settle with gunmaker over scho...
Families of nine victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting have reached a $73 million settlement with US gunmaker Remington,...
Sandy Hook families settle with gunmaker Remington...
The families of nine victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting have reached a settlement with Remington, the maker of the rif...
Prince Andrew settles sex assault lawsuit with Vir...
Prince Andrew and his accuser Virginia Giuffre have settled a sexual assault lawsuit for an unspecified sum, according to a court...
Footballer Sala felt pressure over transfer before...
Emiliano Sala felt under "a lot of pressure" to complete a transfer to the Premier League shortly before he died in a plane crash...
Honduran ex-president faces US extradition for all...
Honduran ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez, accused by Washington of ties with drug traffickers, vowed Tuesday to cooperate with...
Italy issues global warrant for Robinho after rape...
Italian prosecutors on Tuesday issued an international arrest warrant for former Brazil forward Robinho and asked for his extradit...
Taliban declare Soviet exit holiday, six months af...
The Taliban on Tuesday declared February 15 a national holiday to mark the anniversary of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan -...
Navalny faces extra decade in jail as prison trial...
President Vladimir Putin's main political opponent, Alexei Navalny, went on trial from inside prison on Tuesday, in a new fraud ca...
Interpol issues warrants for Canadians over gangst...
Interpol has issued two "red notice" arrest warrants for a pair of Canadians over the suspected murder of an Indian gangster outsi...
German chancellor to meet Putin as Ukraine's fate...
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was due in Moscow Tuesday in search of a diplomatic solution to avoid a war in Ukraine as the West a...
Hollywood actor jailed for $650 million movie ponz...
An American actor who swindled $650 million in a huge Hollywood ponzi scheme, using it to finance a lavish lifestyle of yachts, je...
'Now or never': Victims of Italy's predator priest...
Victims of paedophile priests in Italy will unveil Tuesday a campaign dubbed "Beyond the Great Silence", pushing for an independen...
Grisly killings stoke cartel fears in Ecuador
The bodies of two men hung from a pedestrian bridge in southwestern Ecuador stunned the country Monday and raised the spectre of M...
Experts exhume some El Salvador massacre victims
Forensic experts on Monday started exhuming the remains of at least 16 victims, mainly children, of a massacre committed by soldie...
Calls grow to free Nicaragua prisoners after Orteg...
Calls mounted Monday for dozens of opposition figures jailed in Nicaragua to be freed after the death of a would-be presidential c...
Climate-boosted drought in western US worst in 1,2...
The megadrought that has parched southwestern United States and parts of Mexico over the last two decades is the worst to hit the...
Brother acquitted for 'honour killing' of Pakistan...
The brother of a Pakistani social media star who was murdered in one of the country's most notorious "honour killings" was acquitt...
Five questions as Bangladesh hangs top Islamist le...
Bangladesh Tuesday executed the chief of its main Islamist party for atrocities committed during the country's 1971 independence w...
How the storm clouds massed for Brazil impeachment...
After months of the storm clouds massing, lightning struck President Dilma Rousseff on Thursday with Brazil's Senate ejecting her...
EgyptAir crash: What we know
French experts confirmed Saturday that smoke had been detected in the cabin of an EgyptAir plane that crashed into the eastern Med...
Smoke doesn't reveal what caused EgyptAir crash, e...
Smoke detected in the cabin shortly before EgyptAir flight MS804 crashed into the Mediterranean suggests there was a fire on board...
Vojislav Seselj: Unrepentant Serb ultranationalist
Serb academic turned far-right leader Vojislav Seselj won notoriety during the 1990s Balkan wars for his incendiary rhetoric and r...
MH17: from crash to disputed conclusion
International investigators this week concluded that a Malaysia Airlines flight that crashed in war-torn Ukraine in 2014 had been...
Sixty years ago: when the Berlin Wall went up
In the early hours of Sunday, August 13, 1961, communist East Germany's authorities began building the Berlin Wall, cutting the ci...
Gunmen attack high-profile Sri Lanka TV journalist
Armed men stormed the home of a high-profile Sri Lankan television journalist critical of the government Monday, police said, spar...
Taiwan LGBTQ activists hold Valentine's Day marria...
LGBTQ activists in Taiwan braved a Valentine's Day downpour Monday to protest against the island's same-sex marriage law, which cr...
The Brazil resort town disappearing into the sea
Vultures roam the sand in the Brazilian resort town of Atafona amid the ruins of the latest houses destroyed by the sea, whose rel...
Cambodia steps up surveillance with new internet g...
Cambodia is powering up its new National Internet Gateway, a move activists say will allow the government to further silence the c...