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Bones found near Vatican Embassy revive 1983 cold case

The disappearance of 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi has bedeviled investigators for decades.

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Pittsburgh police injured in synagogue mass shooting identified

President Trump visited with an officer who had been shot seven times in the attack, the White House said.

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Position of crashed Lion Air jet may have been located

Finding the fuselage would bring the search effort closer to retrieving the airplane's flight recorders, which are crucial to the investigation.

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Venice streets under water in worst flooding in a decade amid deadly storms

A woman was killed in the northern region of Trentino-Alto Adige after she was buried in mud after a landslide and a firefighter was struck by a tree while responding to the emergency.

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Indiana missionary gunned down in Cameroon

Charles Wesco "loved the Lord," said his brother, state Rep. Tim Wesco. The State Department said it had no further information.

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World's vertebrate population dropped by 60 percent since 1970, WWF says

"There cannot be a healthy, happy and prosperous future for people" without biodiversity, the report warns.

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Doomed Boeing 737's previous flight was a 'roller coaster' ride

"I felt like the plane was losing power and unable to rise," one person aboard the aircraft's penultimate flight said.

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Steel worker awarded $87K for forced labor during WWII

Japan denounced the verdict as "unthinkable," while expressing hope cooperation over North Korea would not be jeopardized.

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China to allow 'strictly controlled' rhino and tiger trade

The trade "will have devastating consequences globally," a conservationist predicted.

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Khashoggi's fiancee disappointed in U.S. response

"Like everyone else, I am still waiting for answers," said Hatice Cengiz.

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Man killed as second caravan pushes into Mexico

The death was caused by a rubber bullet at the Mexico-Guatemala border

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Female suicide bomber injures 9 in Tunisia

A female suicide bomber injured nine people — mostly police officers — after setting off an explosion in a busy street in Tunisia, authorities said.

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Pirates release a dozen hostages taken from Swiss shipper's crew

The ship carrying wheat was attacked Sept. 22 as it sailed near Nigeria from Lagos to Port Harcourt.

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Once the world's most powerful woman, Merkel signals the end is nigh

"Angela Merkel knows quite clearly that she is living through the last months or through the last year of her chancellorship," one analyst said.

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Woman blows herself up in central Tunis, 80 wounded: Interior Ministry

A woman blew herself up in the centre of the Tunisian capital Tunis on Monday, injuring 80, according to a spokesman for the Tunisian Interior Ministry.

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Japanese princess 'filled with happiness' after marrying commoner

"I am filled with happiness," she told reporters.

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Here's how far-right Bolsonaro won power in Brazil

For many exhausted by stories of politicians plundering public coffers, the image of a stern and austere father figure ready to bring order was refreshing.

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Forensic advances led to speedy arrest in bombing case

"If you have 10 or more intact devices, that's a laboratory scientist's nirvana," a former assistant FBI director said.

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Pipe bomb suspect built devices in his van, sources say

Sayoc lived in a van covered in pro-Trump images.

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Thousands at vigil proclaim: Don't be scared to be Jewish

"There's a violent ether in the air that is terrifying, but it's only as terrifying as we let it be," a prominent rabbi declares.