Tenor Jonas Kaufmann canceled his appearance in the new production of Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino” opening the season at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala on Dec. 7.

The World Trade Organization has raised its outlook for global goods trade this year slightly, but cautions that increasing geopolitical tensions and uncertainty over economic policy pose “substantial” risks to its forecast.

Arsenio Dominguez, secretary general of the International Maritime Organization, says international shipping companies need to do more to decarbonize their fleets right now.

France players are already celebrating something at the European Championship — the result of the elections back home.

Netherlands forward Wout Weghorst loves to make a big impression off the bench and he did it again late in a 2-1 win over Poland at the European Championship.

German police say officers have shot and wounded a man who was threatening them with a hammer and a Molotov cocktail in the northern city of Hamburg.

State environmental offiicals say an 11-foot alligator was seized from an upstate New York home where it was being kept illegally.

The level of online betting on the Super Bowl surged this year, according to a company that tracks the physical location of online gamblers.

Nearly 68 million American adults — about 1 in 4 — plan to bet on this year’s Super Bowl.

Defending champion Italy has been drawn in a tough group at the 2024 European Championship with two-time winner Spain, 2022 World Cup semifinalist Croatia and Albania.

Just playing is a small victory for Shakhtar Donetsk but the Ukrainian champions won’t stop there.

King Charles III boarded a carriage, though not the horse-drawn kind, for the final leg of his three-day trip to Germany.

A timeline of the shooting at a Jehovah’s Witnesses hall in the German city of Hamburg on Thursday evening, according to information provided by authorities on Friday.

Authorities say a gunman stormed a service at his former Jehovah’s Witness hall in Hamburg, killing six people before taking his own life after police arrived.

A German labor union has called on workers at seven of the country’s airports to go on strike Friday to press demands for inflation-busting pay increases.

Lawmakers from two junior governing parties have slammed plans for Chinese shipping giant Cosco to take a major stake in the operator of Germany's biggest container terminal.

A closely watched survey shows that business confidence in Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, has picked up unexpectedly after a six-month slide.

A survivor of the Auschwitz death camp who devoted much of her life to fighting antisemitism and racism in post-war Germany has died.

A general view of a gas chamber in the former Nazi German concentration camp Stutthof near Gdansk, Poland. (CNN) - A 93-year-old former guard at a Nazi concentration camp will go on trial in Germany on Thursday on the charge of being an accessory to thousands of murders. According to the indictment, the defendant knowingly supported the "insidious and cruel killing" in Poland's Stutthof concentration camp. First established by the Nazis in 1939, Stutthof went on to house a total of 115,000 prisoners, more than half of whom -- some 65,000 -- died there. It is believed that approximately six million Jewish people died in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

(CNN) - A bank robber in Germany used his legal right to a "last word" to speak for five days in court. A district court in Hamburg, Germany, sentenced Michael Jauernik, 71, to more than 12 years in jail for three bank robberies, attempted murder and violation of weapons law. Under German law, a defendant is given the opportunity to have a "last word" after a verdict is given. Jauernik's speech spanned five days, a source in the court press office confirmed. Jauernik has previous convictions for a series of bank robberies in the 1970s and 1980s and led a five-day prison riot in Hamburg's Fuhlsbttel prison in 1990, RTL reported.

(CNN) - German authorities say they have seized nearly 5 tons of cocaine worth over $1 billion, the largest cocaine seizure in the country's history. Authorities made the haul in Hamburg, a northern port city. The container, labeled as containing soybeans, was from Uruguay and was heading to Antwerp, Belgium. Instead of soybeans, authorities found over 200 black duffel bags stuffed with 4,200 packets of cocaine. Germany's previous largest seizure was made in 2017, when authorities seized 4.2 tons of cocaine, also in Hamburg.