A 26-year-old Belarusian dissident was detained while traveling on a Ryanair flight from Athens, Greece, to Vilnius, Lithuania, on Sunday. Shortly before touchdown the plane was diverted by Belarusian air traffic control to the capital Minsk over a supposed security alert. CNN's Matthew Chance reports.
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies plunged earlier this month after Elon Musk said Tesla would stop accepting bitcoin as payment for its vehicles because of the huge amount of energy needed to mine bitcoin. But Musk might be having a slight change of heart.
Archaeologists have recovered the bodies of victims of former Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco who were executed and buried at a cemetery in central Spain.
While the global Coronavirus death toll continues to climb each day, some people are beginning to ask: how can we mark the colossal loss of life that has been experienced around the world?
Iran's election watchdog has approved the candidacy of hardline judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi in next month's presidential election, state television reported on Tuesday, while disqualifying some of his main rivals including former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Ghana's LGBTQ community has called for the release of 21 people, who were arrested by security forces last week while attending a conference in the southeastern city of Ho.
Twitter's decision to label a tweet from a leading member of India's governing party as "manipulated media" could make things even harder for the company in a key market.
If you step out the door on a clear, dark night at this time of year, you'll find the great constellation called Ursa Major high in the sky below Polaris, the pole star.
Mali's transitional president and prime minister were arrested Monday and are now in the custody of military officers, according to a joint statement by several international groups. The arrests continue a cycle of political turmoil that has plagued the country for more than a decade.
At the annual Art Basel fair in Hong Kong, visitors browsed busy booths filled with works by some of contemporary art's biggest names, from Damien Hirst to Isamu Noguchi.
Samoa swore in its first female Prime Minister in a makeshift ceremony in a tent Monday after she was locked out of Parliament amid a power struggle with the country's longstanding leader.
An attacker stabbed two men near Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood on Monday, according to Israeli police, wounding them before being shot and killed by police officers.
A British clothing retailer has come under fire for trademarking the name of the west African Yoruba people several years ago, igniting a debate online about whether trademarking names of ethnic groups amounts to cultural appropriation.
Italian investigators have launched a multiple manslaughter investigation after 14 people were killed in a cable car accident in northern Italy, prosecutors said Monday.
British police are hunting for thieves who broke into a castle in southern England and made off with "irreplaceable" artifacts, including gold and silver items worth more than £1 million ($1.4 million).
