SYDNEY, Australia - A man in Australia who sent his faeces and urine to Hollywood actors Leonardo Di Caprio and Jared Leto was sentenced on Wednesday to a two-year good-behaviour bond. Veronica Grey sent parcels from post offices around the state of Western Australia in February, a court in the...
KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine said Wednesday the first cargo ship to use new Black Sea shipping lanes had exited a southern port despite threats from Russia that its navy could target vessels leaving the country. Kyiv announced the maritime corridors for civilian vessels last week after Russia exited an...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russia's FSB security service said Wednesday it had "eliminated" a group of four Ukrainian fighters who tried to cross into Russia's western Bryansk region from northern Ukraine, Russian news agencies reported. The announcement came a day after Moscow said it had prevented...
Aftermath of the wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii. (Photo from AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) KAHULUI, United States -- The number of people known to have died in the horrific wildfire that levelled a Hawaiian town topped 100 Tuesday, the state's governor said, as a makeshift morgue was expanded to deal...
This photograph taken in Moscow on August 15, 2023, shows the logo of a new Russian digital ruble displaying on a smartphone screen. (Photo by Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP) MOSCOW, Russia -- Russia launched the test phase of a digital ruble on Tuesday, in a bid to limit the impact of international...
OSLO, Norway -- Oil producer Norway's sovereign wealth fund earned 131 billion euros in the first half of the year, the country's central bank said on Tuesday. The performance, lifted by the financial markets, represented a return of 10 percent and helped boost the fund's value to 15,299 billion...
LOS ANGELES , United States -- A California judge charged with drunkenly killing his wife with a gun he kept in an ankle holster allegedly texted a colleague after the shooting to say "I won't be in tomorrow. I will be in custody," a court heard Tuesday. Judge Jeffrey Ferguson had dozens of guns...
SEOUL, South Korea -- The US soldier who ran across the border into North Korea last month "admitted that he illegally intruded," Pyongyang's state news agency KCNA said Wednesday, citing an investigation. The report is the first public comment from North Korea on the case of Travis King, who was...
PARIS, France - Two American tourists were found sleeping off a heavy night in the heights of Paris' Eiffel Tower on Monday, after dodging security the night before, the monument's operator said Tuesday. Security guards roused the men "in the early morning" as they were making their rounds...
YANGON, Myanmar - Rescuers have recovered 25 bodies while 14 people remain missing after a landslide at an unregulated jade mine in a remote region of Myanmar, emergency workers said Tuesday. Myanmar has been hit with torrential rain and floods in recent days and the landslide occurred Sunday...
DEHRADUN, India - Rescuers searched Tuesday for people feared missing in floods and landslides that have killed at least 65 in India, including 11 who died in the collapse of a popular temple. Days of torrential downpours have washed away vehicles, demolished buildings and destroyed bridges in...
BERLIN, Germany - An unidentified vandal defaced a memorial to the LGBT victims of the Nazis in central Berlin with homophobic flyers and attempted to set fire to it, police said Tuesday. The man, who was spotted by a security guard but remains at large, threw a burning object at the memorial...
