Society
Newly released Epstein documents showed ties to numerous powerful figures and emails showed a Kirkland lawyer sought Epstein’s helicopter and invited him to his son's bar mitzvah.
Armed men killed at least 162 people and torched homes in two villages in Kwara state, central Nigeria, in one of the country’s deadliest recent attacks.
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A Budapest court convicted non-binary German Maja T. of violent attacks and sentenced her to eight years in prison, prompting protests and EU politicians' criticism that the trial was political.
Marius Borg Høiby, son of Norway’s crown princess, cried during his trial in Oslo and said he did not remember taking videos police allege show him sexually assaulting a woman.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor left his Royal Lodge residence and moved to King Charles's private Sandringham estate after fresh Jeffrey Epstein document revelations revived questions about his ties.
Pima County authorities in Arizona searched for Nancy Guthrie, 84, mother of NBC's Savannah Guthrie, after she was reported missing from her Tucson home and was believed abducted Jan. 31.
Lufthansa acknowledged for the first time that it had been part of the Nazi system and had used more than 10,000 forced laborers during the Third Reich.
A 36-year-old Deutsche Bahn ticket inspector died after a passenger allegedly beat him to death during a ticket check on a regional train in Rheinland-Pfalz, authorities said.
Authorities in Portugal, Sweden and Spain pursued prosecutions or arrests over sexual abuse of minors involving filmed or shared material, including aggravated-rape charges and a Swedish conviction.
Marius Borg Høiby, son of Norway’s Princess Mette-Marit, testified for the first time in his Oslo trial on 38 sexual‑abuse charges, saying the press had harassed him since age three.
Actress Elisa Mouliaá withdrew her private accusation against former Sumar leader Íñigo Errejón, a step that could prompt the case’s dismissal, though a popular accusation might still continue.
A Manchester Jewish group criticized Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola on Tuesday after he referred to "genocide in Palestine," urging he be more careful with his language.
Russian stand-up comedian Artemy Ostanin was sentenced to five years and nine months in prison and fined 300,000 rubles for inciting hatred over a joke about an amputee war veteran.
William Stevenson, 77, once married to former first lady Jill Biden, was charged with first-degree murder in Delaware and remained jailed without bail after his wife was found in December.
An ex-Voka Limburg executive was sent to court in Belgium on allegations he sold millions of euros of decoloured red diesel to a Genk criminal group, alongside 50 co-defendants.
Thirteen-year-old Austin Appelbee swam 4km to shore and ran 2km to get help after his family were stranded in Australia; doctors said the effort equaled two marathons.
Leicestershire police said they arrested an 18-year-old on suspicion of murder after a man in his 20s was stabbed in Leicester city centre on Tuesday evening and later died.
Chinese authorities detained two investigative journalists in Chengdu after they published allegations that a local Communist Party official had abused power, officials said.
At least 15 migrants died after a migrant boat collided with a Greek coastguard patrol vessel off Chios, authorities said, prompting an official probe.
