French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, responsible for multiple murders of young foreigners in the 1970s across Asia, was set to be released from prison on Friday, jail authorities and his lawyer said.

An inner-city neighbourhood in Budapest is tapping into the legacy of a famous magician born in the area over a century ago to help immigrant children integrate at kindergarten.

Brazilian football great Pele will spend Christmas in hospital as he receives treatment for worsening cancer as well as kidney and heart problems.

In a post on Instagram, Heard said she was dropping an appeal against the $10 million payout she had been ordered to make by a jury because she "simply cannot go through" another trial.

A gang of drug dealers in Peru got a nasty surprise when Santa broke down their door, cuffed them and seized their merchandise in an unusual bust announced Monday.

A new lawsuit has accused Meta Platforms META.O of enabling violent and hateful posts from Ethiopia to flourish on Facebook, inflaming the country's bloody civil war.

Rapper Tory Lanez offered Megan Thee Stallion $1 million not to tell police he had shot her feet, she told a Los Angeles court on Tuesday.

"Finding myself here, 65 years later, leaves me with a deep sense of astonishment and gratitude," Ernaux told 2,000 guests gathered for the ceremony at Stockholm City Hall.

Prominent artist and literary figure Remy Sylado died on Monday aged 77 after years of chronic illnesses.

Iran released on bail Sunday two actresses and a male theatre director that were detained in November for making a video supporting the country's protest movement. 

Hollywood producer Hopwood DePree tracked down a red-brick 15th century pile with 60 rooms in the countryside in northwest England after hearing stories about it since he was a child.

In a Moscow prison where he is held for reciting an anti-war poem in public, Artyom Kamardin scribbled some hearts in a letter to his girlfriend Alexandra Popova.

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan issued an emergency directive on Tuesday prohibiting the use of Chinese-owned short-video sharing app T

From Queen Elizabeth II to the Soviet Union's last leader Mikhail Gorbachev, here are some of 2022's most-notable deaths.

Ukrainian families waited in bitter cold on Sunday for their loved ones to cross from the Russian-held bank of the Dnipro River to Kherson, a city that since Ukraine recaptured it from Russian forces last month has been under heavy shelling. ​​​​​​​

Inside five white tents outside the Uiwang container depot near Seoul, about 200 striking truckers huddle around gas heaters, trying to fight the bitter cold and the government narrative that they are well paid "labour aristocracy."

Houston police said they arrested and charged with murder a man suspected in the killing of rapper Takeoff, a member of the influential hip hop group Migos, who was fatally shot last month.

President Emmanuel Macron, on the third day of his US trip, strolled New Orleans's historic French Quarter and held an unannounced face-to-face meeting with Twitter owner Elon Musk.

Prince William and his wife Kate head to the United States this week for their first visit in eight years.

Stevia Angesty left her career at McKinsey to start Feelwell Ceramics (FWC) and made it her mission to bring safe sanitation to some of the poorest communities in Indonesia. 

Prominent Iranian actor Hengameh Ghaziani has been released on bail more than a week after her arrest for having supported nationwide protests.

In an unusual move for a Nobel Peace laureate, the head of one of this year's prizewinning organisations called for weapons to help Ukraine defend itself and stop the atrocities.

The lensman shakes up the wedding photography scene with Berawal Dari Teman – a photography project that lovingly deviates from the old cliché.

Zara owner Inditex agreed last week to pay a one-off bonus of 1,000 euros ($1,041) to all full-time shop workers in Spain in February, according to unions that are seeking better wages for their members in the face of galloping inflation.

A trial pitting Italy's far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni against investigative journalist Roberto Saviano opens on Tuesday.

A Japanese teenager who has become an advocate for children urged politicians to become the leaders they would have admired as youngsters, after winning a prestigious youth award on Monday.

Armed with a little more than a smile, a growth chart and a big heart, Naomi Laiputa oversees more than 10,000 mothers and children across Kupang regency, some 3,000 kilometers from the sprawling metropolis of Jakarta.

A woman who claims actor Warren Beatty coerced her into sex with him almost 50 years ago when she was a young teenager has filed a lawsuit against him seeking damages.

Colombian music superstar Shakira and Spanish footballer Gerard Pique have reached an agreement over the custody of their two children following their breakup.

Julie Powell, the writer whose yearlong mission to cook through Julia Child's French Cooking masterpiece was immortalized in print and film, has died of cardiac arrest.