France's highest court will rule for the first time on the cases of 13 black and Arab men who claim they were victims of unjustified identity checks based on racial profiling.
A Chinese court has given the head of a chemical trading company a suspended death sentence over an explosion at a warehouse in Tianjin last year that killed 173 people, most of them firefighters and police officers.
The election of a U.S. president who has called global warming a "hoax" raised questions Wednesday about America's involvement in the Paris Agreement on climate change — and the future of the deal itself.
Responding to mounting criticism from the European Union, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has challenged the EU to halt membership talks with Ankara.
Prosecutors say more than 1,000 police officers have made searches related to criminals gangs across Germany and have seized weapons, drugs and documents.
Indians awoke to a morning of confusion after the government withdrew the highest-denomination currency notes overnight to halt money laundering in a country where many in the poor and middle-class still make day-to-day transactions in cash.
An ardent supporter of statehood for Puerto Rico won the governor's race on the island Tuesday, after campaigning on a pledge to turn the economically troubled U.S. territory into the 51st state during his term.
A 4-year-old girl was decapitated and her arms were severed last week in rural India as part of a black magic ritual aimed at finding a lost cell phone.
Iranian media says authorities have blinded a man to punish him for throwing chemicals in the face of a four-year-old girl in a 2009 assault that destroyed her vision.
Hundreds of Bolivians have carried human skulls adorned with flowers to a cemetery in the capital city of La Paz, asking for health, money, love and other favors.
A German couple who spent four decades sailing the world has apparently been abducted by pirates for a second time, with what appears to be a fatal result.
Argentine Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra says a win by Republican Donald Trump in the U.S. election would stall recent moves to improve relations between the countries.
A Syrian refugee in Turkey was convicted of sexual assault, but not before getting a different kind of justice when a gang spotted him and beat him up on the street.