A group of British lawmakers says the country has fewer than 10 Border Force vessels to patrol 7,000 miles (11,000 kilometers) of coastline — a "worryingly low" number.
A presidential spokesman in Uganda says some ruling party officials want to remove the age limit on the presidency so long-time President Yoweri Museveni can run again.
A German court has convicted a former top spy in Yugoslavia's secret service and his one-time subordinate of involvement in the 1983 killing of a Communist-era dissident, and sentenced them to life in prison.
Armenia's top investigative body said Wednesday that 23 people are now in custody on suspicion of organizing riots in the capital, Yerevan, during a two-week armed standoff.
Pope Francis says while visiting the former Auschwitz and Birkenau Nazi death camps in Poland he reflected on today's cruelties in "this world sick with cruelty, violence and suffering." In recounting his visit to Poland last week, he told pilgrims at the Vatican Wednesday that while seeing the camps, he thought that even though today's cruelties aren't as concentrated as those practiced at the Nazi facilities, they're similar in sense of suffering.
The head of the Council of Europe, the continent's top human rights organization, is visiting Turkey for talks with the country's leadership and opposition officials — the first high-ranking European official to do so after the attempted July 15 coup.
French President Francois Hollande has strongly criticized U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, saying some of the things Trump does make him sick.
Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler's day planner reinforces historians' views of how mass murder was institutionalized and routine in Adolf Hitler's Germany.
With the British economy in its deepest trouble since the global financial crisis in the wake of the vote to leave the European Union, the Bank of England is expected to unveil Thursday stimulus measures including a rate cut and, possibly, the creation of billions in new money.
South Korea's president plans to visit Russia next month to attend an economic forum and discuss North Korea's nuclear program with President Vladimir Putin.
The mayor of the Russian city of Yaroslavl has been found guilty of soliciting bribes and sentenced to 12½ years in a high-security prison, an unusually harsh verdict.