More than 400 people were detained in Russia while paying tribute to opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died at a remote Arctic penal colony, a prominent rights group reported.
Dries van Agt, the Christian Democrat prime minister of the Netherlands from 1977 until 1982, has died by euthanasia, “hand in hand” together with his wife, according to the human rights organisation he founded. They both were 93.
Boris Nadezhdin, an anti-war candidate vying for the Russian presidency, announced he had submitted the signatures required to be listed on the presidential election ballot.
Employees from a Ukrainian arms firm conspired with defence ministry officials to embezzle almost $40 million earmarked to buy 100,000 mortar shells for the war with Russia, Ukraine's security service has reported.
Ukraine says it has intelligence suggesting only five bodies were delivered from the crash site of a Russian military transport plane to a nearby morgue.
It's usually the quickest way of getting from A to B for long journeys, but for those traveling to and from Ireland and the UK last night, flying became an odyssey.
The new queen waved with one hand and clasped her husband with the other before they embraced, a world away from her Tassie upbringing and the Sydney pub where they met.
"When Mary and Frederik met in Australia, the story used to be that she was lucky to run into a fairytale prince. I think time has shown he was even luckier."
It has been called the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British history. More than 700 innocent people who ran Post Offices across the UK were prosecuted over missing money.
London's Metropolitan Police had said the singer's death was not considered suspicious after she was found unresponsive at a home in south-east London.
Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage in 2011, launched his second attempt at suing the state on Monday, accusing the Justice Ministry of breaching his human rights.
Some of the Ukrainians had been held since 2022, including some who fought in milestone battles for Ukraine's Snake Island and the Ukrainian city of Mariupol.
Western officials and analysts recently warned that Russia was building up stockpiles for massive strikes during the winter, hoping to break the Ukrainians' spirit.
Jacques Delors, the visionary and builder of a more unified Europe in his momentous decade as chief executive of the European Union, has died in Paris.
Many businesses closed as people transitioned to working remotely and not every tourist attraction survived the COVID-19 pandemic unscathed. Whether closing permanently or temporarily, here's the places you can't visit in 2024.
Sarah Ferguson joined the British royal family's walk to church in Sandringham on Christmas morning - a tradition she hasn't taken part in for over 30 years.