Investigators teamed up with colleagues from the Balkans and Lebanon in raids set up by months of intense surveillance. Authorities say the operation thwarted over 10 million in damages and led to 21 arrests.

A court in northeastern Germany has sentenced a teenager to a prison term of nearly eight years for the murder of a younger child. The teen confessed only after prosecutors began to investigate his brother.

A female politician was caught in bed with her adopted son by her husband, in a scandal that has rocked Thailand.

The world-famous wildlife reserve is the latest area of Kenya to be affected by torrential rains that have claimed more than 170 lives and displaced more than 195,000 people across the nation.

Scores of residents of Indonesia's Tagulandang island were evacuated following the eruption of the Ruang volcano. Plumes of grey smoke continued to rise from the volcano.

The sanctions target parliamentary speaker Anita Among and two former ministers for the Karamoja region who allegedly stole thousands of iron sheets from a government housing scheme.

Media outlets say Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is concerned the International Criminal Court (ICC) could issue an arrest warrant summoning him to The Hague.

The presiding judge ruled that the former US president had violated a gag order nine times and fined him $9,000. Trump was also warned he could be jailed if he continued defying order.

New York City police entered Columbia University after pro-Palestinian protesters broke into and occupied a campus building for 12 hours, university officials said.

After a recent order from Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, morality police are increasing patrols, and women who refuse to wear headscarves are reporting more violent harassment and arrests.

At least 25 people were killed and over 10 others injured after a bus plunged into a ravine in northern Peru, local media reported,

Nine members of Colombias military lost their lives when their helicopter crashed in a rural area of northern Colombia.

The disaster has also damaged infrastructure, including the destruction of roads, bridges and cancellation of school lessons across the country. Thousands have also been displaced due to rains in the country.

A pre-existing airport in Dubai will be built up to include five parallel runways and 400 gates, allowing it to handle more passengers than any other airport in the world, according to the government.