Attorney General William P. Barr said that investigators had obtained a confession in 2012 from a bomb expert admitting his role in the terrorist attack on a jetliner over Scotland.

A new congressional agreement largely puts to rest months of furious negotiations over how to help Sudan’s fragile transitional government, which faces lawsuits accusing the country of harboring Al Qaeda.

Dozens of countries banned air and rail links to Britain, foreshadowing what a “no deal” Brexit could look like in 10 days.

Aleksei A. Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, published a recording of a phone call in which he says he tricked a security official into exposing the plot.

Parts of Asia and Europe bar travelers from Britain.

The federal government had data that should have prompted an immediate lockdown in early December. Instead, it kept the city open for another two weeks.

A plunge in ridership at the international high-speed train mirrors wider troubles gripping Europe’s railway industry.

Gheorghe Nica, of Romania, and Eamonn Harrison, of Northern Ireland, were found guilty for the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants who were found in a container in southeastern England in 2019.

Airport security checkpoints have handled more than one million passengers a day since Friday.