The Islamic Jihad militant group in the Gaza Strip announced a unilateral ceasefire on Monday, calling for a halt after two days of intense fighting with Israel, just a week before the country's national elections.
A wrongful death lawsuit filed by Vanessa Bryant in Los Angeles says the pilot was careless and negligent by flying in cloudy conditions on the day of a helicopter crash that killed nine people — including her husband Kobe Bryant and their 13-year-old daughter, Gianna.
A man intentionally drove a car into a crowd of people watching a carnival procession in a small German town, injuring dozens of people — including children — on Monday, police said.
A jury has found Harvey Weinstein guilty of rape and sexual assault in New York but did not convict him of the two most serious charges of predatory sexual assault, which could have sent him to prison for life.
NASA says Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who worked on NASA's early space missions and was portrayed in the film "Hidden Figures," about pioneering black female aerospace workers, has died.
Prioritizing pageantry over policy, U.S. President Donald Trump basked in India's welcoming embrace on a day that featured a mega-rally with cheering crowds, a mutual admiration show with his counterpart and a sunset tour of the famed Taj Mahal.
A California man who said he wanted to fly to the edge of outer space to see for himself if the world is round has died after his home-built rocket blasted off into the desert sky and plunged back to earth.
The Auschwitz Memorial criticized Amazon on Sunday for fictitious depictions of the Holocaust in its Prime series Hunters and for selling books of Nazi propaganda.
Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad tendered his resignation to Malaysia's king on Monday while his political party quit the ruling alliance, in a shocking political upheaval less than two years after his election victory.
Fears of a potential coronavirus pandemic grew on Monday after sharp rises in new cases reported in Iran, Italy and South Korea, but China relaxed restrictions on movements in several places including Beijing as its rates of new infections eased.
The U.S. government began outlining its extradition case against Julian Assange in a London court on Monday, arguing that the WikiLeaks founder is not a free-speech champion but an "ordinary" criminal who put many lives at risk with his secret-spilling.
China has taken unprecedented steps to stop COVID-19, locking down 60 million people. But questions remain about whether authorities initially concealed the severity and spread of the outbreak.
Bahamians are grappling with new and disturbing allegations, which have come in waves over the past few weeks, involving Canadian fashion designer Peter Nygard and his former neighbour, Louis Bacon, who both once lived in an exclusive gated community on the western tip of this Caribbean island.
