Italy handed back to Canada yesterday a famous photographic portrait of Winston Churchill that was stolen from an Ottawa hotel more than two years ago.
A lawyer from one of the Commonwealth’s smallest countries, Shridath Surendranath Ramphal did much to keep the "club" of former British colonies together as a functioning political force.
High-end London department store Harrods has apologised over allegations its former owner, Egyptian billionaire businessman Mohamed Al Fayed, raped and sexually assaulted several female ex-employees.
As mobile phones became the world's main communications tool, pagers were largely rendered obsolete. But the durable, tiny electronic devices remain a vital means of communication in some areas.
Israeli warplanes carried out their most intense strikes on southern Lebanon in nearly a year of war, heightening the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah amid calls for restraint.
A sheriff in rural Kentucky has been arrested, accused of shooting and killing a district court judge following an argument inside the courthouse, officials said.
The UN Security Council's credibility is at stake because of its failure to enforce its own resolutions on the Israel-Gaza conflict, former prime minister Helen Clark says.
London's Oxford St, home to some of the capital's most famous shops, could be pedestrianised to attract more shoppers under a plan announced by city mayor Sadiq Khan.
Australia has abstained from a United Nations vote calling on Israel to end its "unlawful presence" in Palestine, the federal government has confirmed.
Twenty people have been killed and 450 injured after walkie-talkies used by Lebanese armed group Hezbollah detonated across Lebanon's south in the second day of attacks.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, saying it has thwarted an Iran-backed assassination plot, a day after explosions of Hezbollah radios followed blasts in booby-trapped pagers, setting the foes hurtling towards war.
The accused creator of a secret app used by organised crime networks will remain behind bars after police thwarted a string of potential murders and violent crimes.
Sean "Diddy" Combs engaged in a long-running scheme of sex trafficking and racketeering, according to a three-count federal indictment unsealed on Tuesday.
Floods in Myanmar have killed at least 226 people in just over a week, after heavy rains battered the central provinces of the war-torn Southeast Asian country.
Lebanon's Hezbollah has promised to retaliate after blaming Israel for detonating pagers that killed at least nine people and wounded thousands of others.