Drugmaker Endo to pay $10 million to settle opioid case ahead of trial
Endo International Plc on Tuesday said it had agreed to pay $10 million to avoid going to trial in October in a landmark case by...
Nordic PMs, CEOs sign joint declaration on climate change
Nordic prime ministers and business leaders sought on Tuesday to reinforce the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement and the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by signing...
Artists use street murals to change image of violent Caracas slum
In the sprawling slum of Petare in the east of Venezuela’s capital of Caracas, 31-year-old Fabian Solymar begins sketching a mural of abstract figures on...
Sargasso turtles threatened by high levels of microplastic
Scientists studying the scale and impact of plastic pollution on wildlife in the Sargasso Sea have found “extreme concentrations” of microplastic, which they worry will...
Brazil police shoot bus hijacker dead in Rio, no hostages hurt
Brazilian security forces in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday morning shot dead a man who hijacked a commuter bus on a bridge across Guanabara Bay...
One dead, over 100 ill in Spain’s biggest listeriosis outbreak
A 90-year-old Spanish woman died on Tuesday, 56 people have been hospitalized and dozens more taken ill in what is believed to be the biggest...
Drugmaker Endo to pay $10 million to settle opioid lawsuit
Endo International Plc on Tuesday said it had agreed to pay $10 million to avoid going to trial in October in a landmark case by...
Germany’s Scholz picks eastern woman as running mate for SPD chair
German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz will run for the leadership of the Social Democrats (SPD) with a female colleague from the former communist east on...
Dogs revived by fire crew after house fire
Firefighters from the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District save the lives of two dogs after a house fire in Carmichael, California....
Conservationists push at CITES conference to ban trophy hunting
A group of activists is trying to persuade an international conservation conference to ban trophy hunting, which outrages some animal lovers but has long been...