A Turkish court on Monday sentenced prominent Turkish civil rights activist and philanthropist Osman Kavala to life in prison without parole, finding him guilty of attempting to overthrow the government in connection with mass anti-government protests in 2013.
The first all-private astronaut team ever flown aboard the International Space Station — which included Canadian Mark Pathy — safely splashed down in the Atlantic off Florida's coast on Monday, completing a two-week science mission hailed as a milestone in commercial spaceflight.
A New York judge on Monday held former U.S. president Donald Trump in contempt of court for not producing documents subpoenaed in the state attorney general's civil probe of his business practices and ordered Trump to be fined $10,000 US per day until he complies.
Nearly half of the jurors who sentenced Melissa Lucio to die for the 2007 death of one of her 14 children have called for her upcoming execution to be halted and for her to get a new trial. She is scheduled for execution on Wednesday.
French President Emmanuel Macron won re-election with an impressive 58.5 per cent of the vote. It's not quite the crushing two-thirds of the vote he won five years ago, writes Don Murray, but almost every other winner of the French presidency would have been very happy with his score.
Elon Musk talked into the night with Twitter's board of directors on Sunday and the two sides are reportedly nearing a deal that would allow the CEO of Tesla to take over the company.
China's capital, Beijing, began mass testing of more than 3 million people on Monday and restricted residents in one part of the city to their compounds, sparking worries of a wider Shanghai-style lockdown.
Three critically endangered Sumatran tigers were found dead after being caught in traps on Indonesia's Sumatra island in the latest setback for a species whose numbers are estimated to have dwindled to about 400, authorities said Monday.
