A large scaffolding has collapsed onto the street in the diamond district in Antwerp, Belgium, injuring several people.

The Latest on a Japanese freelance journalist freed from Syria (all times local):

As shocking details in the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi approached a crescendo, the war-torn nation of South Sudan this week issued a rare foreign ministry statement. It praised the Saudi position to defuse the crisis as 'honorable' and assured the kingdom of its commitment to strong relations.

An ex-New York state Senate leader convicted on public corruption charges wants leniency to spare him from years behind bars.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says he does not expect a nuclear buildup in Europe, despite U.S. threats to pull out of a Cold War-era missile agreement over allegations that Russia is violating it.

A leading British Conservative in the European Parliament has apologized after he told the legislature that Nazism was a 'left-wing ideology.'

A University of Utah student and track athlete who was shot and killed on campus by a former boyfriend had filed a police complaint against him after she learned he was a sex offender and broke off the relationship, authorities said Tuesday.

Lottery officials say someone has won the record $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot.

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Wednesday began a two-day visit to Thailand during which he’s expected to discuss peace talks in southern border provinces with Malaysia, where a Muslim separatist insurgency has been raging for over a decade.

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands have both urged their countries to look beyond Brexit to a shared future as the Dutch monarch and his wife pay a state visit to the U.K.