8 teenage girls charged with second-degree murder in fatal stabbing of Toronto man

Eight teenage girls were charged with murder Tuesday in the stabbing death of a 59-year-old Toronto man in what police are calling a "swarming" attack.


Alleged meth kingpin Tse Chi Lop extradited to Australia

Tse Chi Lop, an alleged drug kingpin accused of running a multibillion dollar methamphetamine empire, has been extradited to Australia following a nearly two-year legal battle with Dutch authorities.


Nepal's top court orders release of infamous French serial killer, Charles 'The Serpent' Sobhraj

Nepal's top court on Wednesday ordered the release from jail of Charles Sobhraj, the infamous French serial killer who inspired the award-nominated TV series "The Serpent."


Analysis: Zelensky's Washington trip marks a victory in the PR war with Putin

On the last week before the Gregorian Christmas, the optics of Russia's war in Ukraine have taken on a different dynamic and demonstrate that the battle is not only being fought on the frigid frontlines in Ukraine, but is also becoming something of a PR tit-for-tat.


'I was shaking so bad': Boris Becker says a prison inmate tried to kill him while in UK jail

Boris Becker says a prison "inmate tried to kill" him during the tennis great's incarceration in a British jail during an interview that was aired Tuesday by German broadcaster Sat 1.


China's Covid 'chaos': How a shortage of fever drugs is sparking a global run on medicines

An unprecedented wave of Covid infections in China has triggered widespread drug shortages, as people scramble to buy fever medicines and painkillers to alleviate flu-like symptoms.


Children among dead as stranded Rohingya face starvation at sea, families say

Many Rohingya are feared dead at sea more than three weeks after their boat became stranded off the Indian coast, where at least 160 people remain aboard on the brink of starvation, family members and the United Nations' refugee agency said.


Thai warship that sank, killing 6, had too few life jackets, admiral says

Thai naval officials said Tuesday there were not enough life jackets for everyone aboard a warship that sank early Monday in severe weather in the Gulf of Thailand with the loss of at least six lives.


Britain is being hit by a wave of strikes. Why have things got so bad?

Another day, another round of strikes in Britain.


TikTok executive refuses Jake Tapper's multiple requests to acknowledge China's treatment of Uyghurs

In an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper Tuesday, a TikTok executive refused multiple times to acknowledge China's treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities, which the US State Department has labeled a genocide and a United Nations report said may constitute "crimes against humanity."