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Witnesses told rescue teams that the bus blew a tire, causing the driver to lose control and collide with a truck.

The violence shocked Germany and the city, bringing its mayor to the verge of tears and marring a festive event that's part of a centuries-old German tradition.

The Russian president said he plans to ask ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad about Austin Tice, a U.S. journalist who went missing in Damascus in 2012.

In a case that has shocked France, Dominique Pelicot admitted that for years he knocked his wife out with drugs so that he and strangers he recruited online could abuse her.

Barcelona's subway system sends energy from its braking trains up to street level to help charge EVs.

Naked Santa has also become an iconic part of one American city's Christmas lore.

French judges plan to deliver hugely anticipated verdicts this week in a historic drugging-and-rape trial that has turned the victim, Gisèle Pelicot, into a feminist hero.

The suspect was described as an Uzbek citizen recruited by Ukrainian intelligence services.

The brother of King Charles said that he "ceased all contact" with Yang Tengbo after the U.K. government raised concerns.

"Almost everyone advised me against that trip," Francis wrote in his upcoming autobiography, "Hope."