Last year’s travel sector in the European Union rebounded almost 50% from 2021 levels, after the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered the tourism industry in 2019.
Vladimir Putin has given a number of speeches in Russia as the conflict nears its one-year anniversary, with a brief ceasefire for Christmas the only pause in hostilities.
Residents in Congo are protesting the arrival of South Sudanese troops to help the Congolese military fight against the M23 rebels. Police have fired tear gas at the protestors.
The State Department says at least two Americans and two lawful U.S. permanent residents were aboard the Yeti Airlines flight that crashed into a gorge in Nepal Sunday.
Chinese citizens who lost relatives to COVID-19 in the past few months are angry at the lack of preparation around protecting the elderly before lifting the "zero-COVID" policy.
A Canadian father of a fourth-grade student told a school district in Ontario he was concerned about a book that discusses homosexuality, bestiality, and sodomy, on school shelves.
Caminando Fronteras, a nonprofit in Spain, said that 2,390 migrants died or were reported missing while coming to the country last year. This number includes 288 women and 101 children.
Bishops in the Church of England will not be voting to overturn the historical doctrine that marriage is between one man and one woman during its general synod in February.
Infamous drug trafficker Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who was convicted in 2019 and sentenced to life in prison following a trial in New York, has pleaded to speak with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador over "cruel and unfair" treatment in U.S. prisons and request an extradition.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Wednesday that "light is ahead" in the nation's ongoing struggle with COVID-19, but blamed rural areas for ongoing case spikes.
The Vatican restricted a French priest who allegedly sexually abused his therapy patients. However, they did not defrock or sanction him in any other way.
Serial-killer obsessed mom allegedly “giggled” after murdering her boyfriend and showing his body to a friend during video-call. Shaye Groves is accused of brutally stabbing boyfriend as he slept.
Charles Byrne stood 7'7" and requested a burial at sea to avoid dissection, but a collector bribed someone to help him steal the body and replace it in the coffin.
Greta Thunberg was seen laughing with German officers before a photo-op of the climate change activist's detention at the Garzweiler coal mine, sparking backlash online.
A Mexican prosecutor tasked with investigating the murder of Shanquella Robinson says he continues to work with the U.S. to interview witnesses and possible accomplices.
The tiger that escaped from a farm in South Africa was found and euthanized on Wednesday. While the 8-year-old tiger was out she attacked a man, killed two dogs, and a pig.
Alireza Akbari served as Iranian deputy minister of defense from 2000 to 2005, but was arrested in 2019 and accused of serving as a British intelligence agent.
A helicopter crash in Brovary, Ukraine – a suburb on the outskirts of Kyiv – has left at least 14 people dead, including top officials and children, officials say.
Israel’s Christian population rose by about 2% last year. While Christian populations in the Middle East have dwindled, a minor revival seems to be taking place in the Holy Land.