A mob in Lebanon attacked the office of a Sunni Muslim religious leader in the northern city of Tripoli, smashing in windows early on Wednesday, reports said. The assailants then moved to one of the city’s main squares and set fire to the municipality’s Christmas tree.

Thai police on Wednesday arrested a convicted serial killer who was accused of a fresh killing just seven months after his early release from prison.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decisive victory in last week’s general election provided little comfort to Britain’s once world-beating financial services industry, which has been battered by Brexit for more than three years.

The crash of a double-decker bus in Hong Kong killed at least four people and injured more than 20, emergency services said.

Official figures show that inflation in Britain held steady at 1.5% in the year to November, way below the Bank of England’s target of 2%.

A closely watched survey showed Wednesday that business confidence in Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, rose for the second consecutive month in December.

Poland’s Supreme Court has warned that legislation being pushed by the populist ruling party that would allow for the dismissal of judges who dissent from the government’s views could ultimately lead to Poland leaving the European Union.

A former Miss Kentucky who worked as a teacher in West Virginia has admitted to exchanging sexual photos with a 15-year-old student.

A European spacecraft launched from South America Wednesday on a three-year mission to study planets in other solar systems.

India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the final appeal of one of the four men sentenced to death for the 2012 fatal gang rape of a woman on a moving bus in New Delhi, paving the way for the four to be hanged.