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Vladislav Kanyus was sentenced to 17 years in prison for torturing and killing his ex-girlfriend in 2020.

A search operation involving hundreds of security personnel was under way in Mexico on Wednesday, a day after gunmen kidnapped 16 administrative employees of the police force, authorities said.

Astronomers across the world announced on Thursday that they have found the first evidence of a long-theorised form of gravitational waves that create a "background hum" rumbling throughout the universe.

Experts have recovered presumed human remains from what is left of the Titan sub that imploded during a dive to the Titanic wreck, with the death of five people, the US Coast Guard said Wednesday.

Mangled debris recovered from the small submersible that was destroyed when it imploded during a recent dive to the Titanic wreck was offloaded Wednesday in eastern Canada, bringing to an end a difficult search-and-recovery operation.

Madonna is recovering after falling ill with a "serious bacterial infection" that landed her in an intensive care unit for several days, her manager Guy Oseary said in a statement Wednesday.

The crypto accounts are believed to be used to finance Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force and the terror group Hezbollah.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that no new nuclear agreement was on the table with Iran, after quiet new diplomacy between the adversaries.

This development comes after Ukraine began using the Starlink network a year ago, during Russia's invasion.

President Joe Biden is gambling his 2024 re-election on a continued strong US economy and manufacturing resurgence with a speech Wednesday launching his newly branded "Bidenomics."

Perseverance was only the 3rd most expensive Mars mission conducted by NASA and the 7th most-expensive spacecraft in the history of the agency's planetary exploration programs.

Chad, which had an average PM2.5 concentration of nearly 90 micrograms per cubic meter of air (µg/m3), became the world's most polluted country in 2022.

Switzerland, a global commodities trading hub, decided Wednesday to push for a moratorium on commercial exploitation of the international seabed area, which has enormous mineral resources.

Swedish police said they have granted a permit for a protest where the organiser plans to burn a Koran outside Stockholm's main mosque on Wednesday, the start of the Muslim three-day Eid al-Adha holiday.

In India, a woman was beheaded by her father-in-law after a heated family dispute ensued due to quarrels between the victim and her sister-in-law.

The EU has reached an agreement giving users greater access to their data and control over how the digital information is used by companies.

Oscar-winning Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey was due in a London court on Wednesday to stand trial for a dozen sexual offences which allegedly occurred more than a decade ago.

Violent protests shook Paris suburbs overnight and celebrities expressed outrage Wednesday after police shot dead a teenager during a traffic stop and appeared to have lied about the circumstances of the killing.

Four Armenian separatist fighters were killed Wednesday in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region by Azerbaijani fire, rebels said, as Baku and Yerevan held peace talks mediated by the United States.

Outside a bustling fruit market in Senegal's Dakar region, three trucks are blocking the road while a dozen men sweat to unload the precious cargo.

Wearing a pink dress that matches the bow in her hair, eight-year-old Agatha flashes a smile that belies all she has been through as a trans child growing up in Brazil.

Almost 62 years after it was detonated, Tsar Bomba still holds the title of the largest and strongest nuclear bomb ever produced by mankind.

Lee Jung-hee was set to turn 60 next year but South Korea dropped its traditional age counting system Wednesday, so the Seoul-based housewife just got a year younger -- and she's thrilled.

A satellite image from NASA's satellite shows smoke from the Canadian wildfires already over Spain and Portugal.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko also claimed that he stopped Russian President Vladimir Putin from destroying the Wagner group.

At least four people were killed and more than 40 wounded in a Russian missile strike that hit a restaurant in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, authorities said Tuesday.

Cuba, which relies heavily on the tourist dollars of visitors to its pristine Caribbean beaches and colorful towns, has experienced a frustrating scarcity of foreigners since the end of the coronavirus pandemic.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko received an unusual gift as his country continues to take delivery of tactical nuclear weapons from Russia.

The Russian government spent more than 160 billion rubles to fund the Wagner group and its owner, Concord company.