The Volkswagen emissions scandal widened on Monday when the US government accused the German automaker of cheating for a second time. Although VW denied the charge, it faced the prospect of steeper fines and lost sales, as well as more intense scrutiny from disbelieving US lawmakers.
Leftwing Israeli NGOs accused the government of a witch-hunt on Monday after the justice minister proposed tough new measures on organizations receiving funding from foreign governments.
A school of 10 whales that washed up on Monday in northern France may have done so voluntarily after the death of the dominant male, an expert said.
A 17-month-old baby miraculously survived after biting a poisonous snake to death in southern Brazil, media reported on Monday.
Lebanese judicial authorities charged a Saudi prince and nine other people with drug smuggling via Beirut airport, and referred the case to an investigating judge, judicial sources and the National News Agency reported on Monday.
The Scottish government announced on Monday that it granted consent to a floating offshore wind farm project, which would be the largest of its kind in the world when completed.
A US-born Sumatran rhino arrived in his ancestral home of Indonesia on Sunday, making the long journey from Cincinnati, Ohio, on a mission to mate to help save his critically endangered species from extinction.
Robots specializing in home healthcare can provide companionship and help lessen the isolation of elderly people in remote areas, according to a pioneering New Zealand study released on Monday.
Former German Democratic Republic official Guenter Schabowski, who died on Sunday at age 86, went down in history for a slip of the tongue in 1989 that inadvertently brought down the Berlin Wall.
Turkey's ruling party secured a stunning victory in Sunday's snap parliamentary election, sweeping back into single-party rule only five months after losing it.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday the nation had voted for stability in a legislative election that saw the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, win almost 50 percent of the vote, and said the world should respect the result.
Okinawan Governor Takeshi Onaga was scheduled to appeal to a third-party panel on Monday to mediate with the central government of Japan in an ongoing dispute regarding the relocation of a controversial US air base within the nation's southernmost prefecture.
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