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At least 45 bags with human remains were found in a ravine in the western Mexican state of Jalisco during a search for seven young people reported missing last week, local authorities said Thursday.
From an ancient Middle Eastern limestone elephant to seventh century Chinese sculptures, New York prosecutors have seized hundreds of priceless artefacts looted from around the globe that have earned it the reputation as a key global hub for art trafficking.
In the heart of the Amazon, where Peru, Brazil and Colombia meet, members of a quirky religious mashup of evangelical Protestantism and Incan rites await the end times in their remote "Promised Land."
Jordan's Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah married Saudi architect Rajwa Al Saif on Thursday in a wedding attended by royals from across the globe.
London's Gagosian gallery is hosting a major new exhibition of abstract art, bringing together the playful use of textures by young artists and traditional work of veterans in the field.
A court in Senegal on Thursday sentenced firebrand opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, a candidate in the 2024 presidential election, to two years' jail on charges of "corrupting youth" but acquitted him of rape and issuing death threats.
Covered from head to toe to keep herself cool, Vu Thi Phuong pushes a trolley of coffee, lime juice and ice around Hanoi in the burning sun.
Music producer and rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs is suing spirits company Diageo, accusing it of neglecting their business agreement and failing to invest in his liquor brands because he is Black.
Nintendo has said it will no longer sell games in Russia through its online store as the Japanese giant winds down operations in the increasingly isolated country.
One of Australia's most decorated soldiers lost a landmark defamation case against major newspapers Thursday after a bruising trial that saw accusations of murder, domestic violence, witness intimidation and war crimes.
The United States said Thursday it will only be ready to mediate a truce between Sudan's warring parties when they get "serious", after the army left negotiations and the latest ceasefire unravelled.
Amazon on Wednesday agreed to pay $30.8 million to settle Ring and Alexa privacy complaints filed by US regulators, including accusations that employees spied on female customers, according to court documents.
America's first federal trial over China's alleged attempts to forcibly repatriate its citizens under a campaign known as "Operation Fox Hunt" got underway in New York on Wednesday.
Firefighters on Wednesday faced a grueling uphill battle against wildfires in Canada's Nova Scotia province, including one threatening suburbs of Halifax.
Saudi Arabia has charged a women's rights activist detained since November over her social media posts with launching a "propaganda campaign", according to court documents seen by AFP on Wednesday.
Family members of victims who died in a Boeing 737 MAX crash can seek compensation for the emotional distress their loved ones experienced before the fatal incident, according to a US ruling.
A rape case that has pitched a 23-year-old woman against Senegal's most prominent opposition leader has dismayed feminists in the country, fearing their cause has suffered an enduring blow.
A Norwegian man and his associates appeared in a UK court Wednesday to answer charges over an alleged conspiracy involving "extreme body modifications" -- including castrations.
Australia's Crown Resorts is set to pay a civil penalty of Aus$450 million (US$290 million) for lax money laundering controls that saw cash being carried into a casino in paper bags, shoe boxes and suitcases.
An emergency evacuation alert sent in error across Seoul over a North Korean rocket launch triggered widespread panic on Wednesday, crashing internet services and raising fears the government could not be trusted to handle a real crisis.
The smell of ageing whisky, known as the angel's share, wafts across from 9,000 oak barrels stored from floor to ceiling in two vast warehouses at Scotland's historic Annandale Distillery.
Two of late Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic's spy chiefs face an appeals judgment Wednesday in the final Hague war crimes trial from the 1990s Bosnian conflict.
In his four years as president, Nayib Bukele has shaken up El Salvador: consolidating power, making Bitcoin legal tender and waging a "war" on gangs that's earned him opprobrium from rights groups but adoration from a crime-fatigued nation.
An American man on trial for massacring 11 Jewish worshippers in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in US history methodically tracked down victims at a synagogue, prosecutors said in opening arguments Tuesday.
Disgraced biotech star Elizabeth Holmes began serving her 11-year sentence for defrauding investors in a Texas prison on Tuesday.
Five men in the UK who illegally streamed English Premier League football matches to tens of thousands of people were jailed on Tuesday, the league announced.
EU ministers expressed "discomfort" on Tuesday at political outlier Hungary taking on the bloc's rotating presidency next year, but Budapest vowed nothing could prevent it filling the prominent role.
Almost three people were murdered every hour in South Africa during the first three months of the year, according to police statistics released on Tuesday.
Ugandan activists called on foreign donors to impose sanctions on rights abusers after President Yoweri Museveni signed an anti-gay law described as among the world's harshest.
Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko alleged on Tuesday he was being "illegally held" by security forces and urged the public to protest.
Turkey's economy is in a double bind: analysts see its current policies leading to imminent peril and the prescriptions incurring massive pain.
Malaysia's coastguard said Tuesday that authorities were questioning the crew of a Chinese vessel detained on suspicion of looting two British World War II shipwrecks.