More than 19,000 students on the small Canadian province of Prince Edward Island were evacuated Wednesday after police received a threat that bombs were placed at a number of schools. Police said nothing suspicious was found after officers searched the schools.
A day after the body of a North Texas college student was found dismembered and burned in a plastic kiddie pool in a park, a mysterious tweet appeared on her Twitter account that read, “Never knew I could feel like this.”
Court officials say a former Greek finance minister has been indicted for allegedly failing to make required wealth declarations while he was a top adviser to the prime minister.
A prosecutor in the embezzlement trial of the founder of a Rhode Island-based international sport institute says the defendant ran the nonprofit as a personal piggybank, using it to pay for private school tuition, plastic surgery and other expenses.
Egypt has lifted a ban on even trace amounts of fungus in its wheat imports, after sellers enraged by Cairo's demands boycotted tenders, threatening the supply of the world's largest importer of the grain.
Congo officials are vowing to round up those they say are responsible for violence and looting during street clashes over a delayed presidential election that left more than 40 people dead this week.
Patients who take medicines derived from blood plasma or urine are not at increased risk of catching Zika, even if the body fluids come from countries where the virus is prevalent, Europe's drugs regulator said on Wednesday.
The FBI on Wednesday announced it was looking for two people spotted on surveillance video opening a suitcase containing a pressure cooker bomb in New York City on Saturday night -- taking the bag with them but leaving the device on the sidewalk.
Exxon Mobil Corp. will pay $12 million for environmental damages caused by a pipeline break that spilled 63,000 gallons (238,474 liters) of crude into Montana's Yellowstone River and prompted a national debate over lax pipeline safety rules, officials said Wednesday.
A lawyer for real estate heir Robert Durst says Los Angeles County prosecutors could get custody of him immediately, rather than waiting until he's moved to a federal prison in Indiana to serve time for a weapons conviction.