Wizards to meet Warriors in NBA 2022 pre-season games
Japan's Rui Hachimura and the Washington Wizards will play the Golden State Warriors in two NBA pre-season games at Tokyo before the 2022-23 campaign begins, the league announced Monday.
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Son of Colombian paramilitary chief elected to special seat for victims of conflict
Colombian officials said Monday that the son of a notorious paramilitary leader has won an election to be a special member of Congress representing victims of the conflict.
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Fake heiress Anna Sorokin to be deported to Germany: US media
Fake heiress Anna "Delvey" Sorokin, who was jailed in 2019 for scamming hundreds of thousands of dollars from hotels, banks and friends, and who inspired a hit series on Netflix, was to be extradited to Germany on Monday, US media said.
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Anxious wait for Ukrainian asylum seekers at Mexican-US border
After fleeing Ukraine by train and flying to Mexico via Spain, Natalia Poliakova found herself stuck at the border with the United States 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles) from home seeking asylum.
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Could a no-fly zone be implemented in Ukraine?
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky again urged NATO Monday to impose a no-fly zone over his country, saying it would protect not only Ukraine but the countries of the Atlantic alliance from Russian air attacks.
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Little oxygen and low pay: Venezuela's risky world of small-scale mining
Henry Alviarez says he began small-scale coal mining in Venezuela's western Tachira state out of "necessity" due to the country's ongoing economic crisis which has deepened during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Britain's Privy Council upholds Bermuda gay marriage ban
A British tribunal upheld a ban on gay marriage in Bermuda Monday, in a departure from Western trends towards equality and a blow to campaigners in one of the colonial power's few remaining overseas territories.
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Viral photo changes Brazil trash-pickers' lives
A holiday story that emerged from an unlikely place took a heartwarming turn when Gabriel Silva, a Brazilian boy photographed pulling a Christmas tree from a garbage dump, managed to help buy his family a house.
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Protesters briefly seize London mansion linked to Russian oligarch
Protesters on Monday briefly seized a mansion linked to the sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in one of central London's most exclusive addresses.
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US police hunt for 'cold-blooded' killer of homeless men
Police were conducting an "urgent" manhunt on Monday for a gunman suspected of shooting homeless men on the streets of Washington and New York in a series of "cold-blooded" attacks.
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