French prosecutors have widened an investigation into former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s alleged participation in a prostitution ring.

Dioncounda Traore, Mali’s interim president, was beaten and rushed to a hospital after hundreds of protesters demanding his resignation stormed the presidential palace Monday.

Two men accused of murdering an Irish teacher on her honeymoon last year pleaded not guilty when they appeared in court in Mauritius on Tuesday, police on the Indian Ocean island said.

Abdelbeset al Megrahi died protesting his innocence over Lockerbie. Others, including some victims’ families, also believe he was not responsible for bombing the jet over Scotland in 1988. But if he didn’t do it, who did?

The principal cellist of the Beijing Symphony Orchestra has been dismissed from his post after a video of his boorish behavior on a passenger train last week outraged users on Chinese social networks.

The principal cellist of the Beijing Symphony Orchestra has been dismissed from his post after a video of his boorish behavior on a passenger train last week outraged users on Chinese social networks.