BERLIN, Germany - The inventor of the hugely popular Catan board game, Klaus Teuber, has died at the age of 70, the franchise's German publisher has said. Teuber passed away on Saturday after a "short and serious illness", publisher Kosmos said in a statement Tuesday. Â The Catan creator had...
KARACHI, Pakistan - International vets "nearly lost" a 17-year-old elephant in Pakistan on Wednesday after knocking her out to perform diagnostic tests, but they now hope to treat multiple issues that have left her crippled for months. Noor Jehan has been barely able to walk around her enclosure at...
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina  - The prime minister of one of Bosnia's two regions was sentenced to four years in prison on Wednesday in a case involving the purchase of Chinese ventilators in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Fadil Novalic, who leads the Bosnia and Herzegovina...
BEIJING, China - French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that China had a "major role" to play in finding a path to peace in Ukraine, as he kicked off a three-day visit to Beijing. Speaking at a gathering of the French community in Beijing ahead of a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping...
ISTANBUL, Turkey - The families of women murdered by men demonstrated Wednesday in defence of a prominent Turkish anti-femicide campaign group accused of activity against law and morals. Prosecutors had filed a lawsuit in April against We Will Stop Femicide Platform, one of the country's leading...
ROME, Italy - Italian ex-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who dominated politics for decades, was in intensive care on Wednesday for heart problems, a member of his entourage told AFP. The 86-year-old media mogul and senator, who has been in and out of the hospital in recent years, is currently in...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Dutch authorities face a "monster" task to recover a crashed passenger train which will require building a bridge over a canal, rail officials said on Wednesday. The crash near The Hague on Tuesday, which killed one person and injured 30 others, left one double-decker...
WASHINGTON, United States - US President Joe Biden will travel to the United Kingdom and Ireland from April 11-14, the White House said on Wednesday. Biden will first visit Belfast to mark the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement before traveling to Ireland, where he...
MEXICO CITY, Mexico - A journalist who was kidnapped in Mexico was found alive by authorities on Tuesday, the country's official organization for the protection of journalists said. "Reporter Ricardo Villanueva Ake, who had been illegally deprived of his freedom on Monday, was found alive," the...
VOORSCHOTEN, Netherlands - A Dutch passenger train derailed after smashing into a crane early on Tuesday, killing a maintenance worker and injuring 30 other people in the Netherlands' worst rail accident for years. The double-decker train carrying around 50 people from Leiden to The Hague...
NEW YORK , United States - Dozens of Donald Trump supporters demonstrated outside the courthouse where the former president is due to be arraigned on criminal charges Tuesday, as a handful of vocal counterprotestors shouted an anti-fascist message. Members of the New York Police Department...
WASHINGTON, United States - President Joe Biden said at a meeting of advisors on the rapidly emerging artificial intelligence sector Tuesday that the jury is still out on whether AI poses a danger to society. It "remains to be seen. It could be," said Biden, when asked by reporters if AI is...
