Like many chief executives, Martin Winterkorn was a demanding boss who didn't like failure. But critics say the pressure on managers at Volkswagen was unusual.
Bill Cosby testified under oath for about seven hours on Friday in response to a civil suit brought by a woman who accuses the veteran comedian of sexually abusing her when she was 15, a lawyer for the plaintiff said on Saturday.
An Israeli airstrike killed a pregnant Palestinian woman and her 2-year-old daughter in Gaza on Sunday, a Gaza health official said.
Russia's recent military intervention in the Syrian war in the form of airstrikes and missile attacks, aimed both at supporting the government of President Bashar al-Assad and combating the Islamic State group, has reaped initial gains.
At least 150,000 people marched in Berlin on Saturday to protest a planned free trade deal between Europe and the United States that they say is anti-democratic and will lower standards for food safety, labor and the environment.
The Pentagon has announced that it will provide compensation for those killed and injured by US airstrikes on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz.
Four Russian cruise missiles aimed at targets in Syria crashed in Iran, a US official said on Thursday, as Syrian troops pressed a "vast offensive" against rebels in the war-torn country's west.
The crush of stampeding people during the hajj pilgrimage last month outside of Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca killed at least 1,399 people, a new tally released on Thursday showed - 630 more than the kingdom's official toll.
An Israeli man stabbed four Arabs on Friday morning, police said, as spiking tensions in Jerusalem and the West Bank threatened to spread throughout Israel.
The Toyota Hilux compact pickup truck has been the most commonly stolen vehicle in the past two years in Sydney, and authorities said they were being shipped in containers to Turkey and then into Syria to be used by extremists, media reported on Friday.
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