A 13th-century masterpiece discovered in an elderly French woman's kitchen has sold for €24m.
A gunman opened fire at an off-campus college party in Texas, leaving two men dead and 14 injured before he escaped in the ensuing chaos.
A diplomat at the centre of the Donald Trump impeachment inquiry did say there was a "quid pro quo" between the US president and Ukraine, according to his lawyer.
Ivan Milat, whose grisly serial killings of seven German, British and Australian backpackers horrified Australia in the early 1990s, died in a Sydney prison yesterday aged 74, ending hopes of a deathbed confession to more unsolved slayings.
Authorities in northern California have ordered 180,000 residents to flee their homes as winds fuelled a wildfire in the wine country.
Thousands of Iraqi protesters stood fast in Baghdad's central Tahrir Square yesterday, defying a bloody crackdown that killed scores over the weekend and an overnight raid by security forces seeking to disperse them.
Rising Democratic star politician Katie Hill announced her resignation on Sunday amid an ethics probe, saying explicit private photos of her with a campaign staffer had been “weaponized” by her husband and political operatives.
