Spanish police say they have arrested an American woman who had been threatening to kill famed British physicist Stephen Hawking while he was in Spain for an astronomy conference.
Thousands of Hong Kongers took to the streets for the southern Chinese city's annual pro-democracy protest march Friday, as tensions persisted over the high-profile case of a bookseller secretly detained in the mainland.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repeated that the Islamic State group "most probably" was behind the Istanbul airport attack, adding that its militants would end up "in hell."
Organized crime prosecutors in Romania have found more than 2.3 million tons of cocaine stashed away in banana crates on ships with a street value of 625 million euros ($694 million).
The Colosseum has emerged more imposing than ever after its most extensive restoration, a multimillion-euro cleaning to remove a dreary, undignified patina of soot and grime from the ancient arena, which has been assailed for decades by pollution in traffic-clogged Rome.
Chinese state media say 10 people have been killed in a mudslide and 12 others remain buried under debris in mountainous Guizhou province in China's southwest.
The United Nations-brokered presidency council in Libya has dismissed four ministers, all of whom are from the discontented eastern region, for failing to attend meetings for a month.
Kenya's police chief says three police officers will be arrested over the disappearance of three men, including a human rights activist with the U.S.-based International Justice Mission.
Syria's official news agency says a warplane has crashed east of the capital Damascus due to "technical failure during a training mission." SANA says the search is on for the pilot, who successfully ejected from the Syrian warplane Friday.
Russia's foreign minister has met his Turkish counterpart as the two nations move quickly to normalize relations following Turkey's apology for the downing of a Russian warplane last year.
Pope Francis has appointed a new bishop to lead Germany's Limburg diocese, ending a more than two-year hiatus after he removed the previous bishop amid an uproar over his costly new residence.
An international rights group has published "horrifying" accounts of exploitation and sexual abuse — including gang rape — of migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Europe.