Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will face corruption charges in connection with an alleged scheme involving the construction giant Odebrecht.
A potentially dangerous incident involving an escaped gorilla ended at the London Zoo Thursday evening after visitors were briefly locked down in a cafeteria and heavily armed officers were summoned to help workers hunt down the animal, police said.
Police in the western German city of Duisburg say they're investigating the parents of a 40-day-old girl on allegations they were trying to sell their infant daughter on eBay.
Pakistan says security forces, acting on a tip, raided a militant hideout in the central province of Punjab and subsequently killed eight militants during a shootout at the scene.
German authorities say DNA recovered from the site where a child's remains were found has been linked to a dead neo-Nazi suspected in a string of killings.
Soccer players on a Palestinian premiere league team have posed for a photograph with a banner praising the Palestinian behind this week's deadly shooting in Jerusalem.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a resolution adopted by the UN cultural agency Thursday denied the Jewish connection to holy sites in Jerusalem and was a "theatre of the absurd."
Pope Francis has denounced the forced repatriation of unaccompanied children migrants who flee wars and poverty, saying countries should try to meet their needs rather than return them to uncertain futures back home.
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor says she is "deeply concerned" about reports of extrajudicial killings of suspected drug dealers and users in the Philippines and that statements by "high officials" in the Asian nation "seem to condone such killings." The written statement Thursday by Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda appeared aimed as a blunt warning to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, whose anti-drug crackdown has left an estimated 3,000 people allegedly involved in the drug trade dead.
Relief about the capture of a young Syrian suspected of preparing a bomb attack in Germany this week gave way to frustration after he strangled himself in his jail cell, dashing authorities' hopes of gaining intelligence about the man's alleged links to the Islamic State group.