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Pandemonium at pop star Rosal��a's flash mob prompts criticism from Madrid's mayor 10/22/2025 11:05am • MADRID (AP) ��� Madrid���s mayor on Wednesday rebuked Spanish pop star Rosalia for briefly unleashing pandemonium earlier this week by convening a flash mob that prompted riot police to control the rowdy, impromptu gathering. The Barcelona-born singer and songwriter gave about an hour���s notice to Md. jurors hear conflicting stories in 2010 death of American University professor 10/22/2025 10:45am • Trial resumes Wednesday in the 2010 death of American University accounting professor Sue Ann Marcum, who was found beaten and asphyxiated in her home in Bethesda, Maryland. In opening statements and the first day of testimony, Montgomery County prosecutors said Jorge Rueda Landeros used and man Journalists imprisoned in Belarus and Georgia win EU's top human rights award 10/22/2025 09:48am • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� Two journalists, one imprisoned in Belarus and the other in Georgia, have won the European Union���s top human rights honor, the Sakharov Prize, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola announced on Wednesday. Andrzej Poczobut is a correspondent for the influential Polish news This seat taken? Thieves busted for stealing over 1,000 restaurant chairs in��Spain 10/22/2025 06:42am • MADRID (AP) ��� Spanish police have busted a criminal group dedicated to stealing your seat. Literally. Spain���s National Police said Wednesday that they had arrested seven people suspected of stealing more than 1,100 chairs from outdoor seating areas at restaurants and bars in Madrid and another n Ugandan police lower crash death toll from 63 to 46 after saying some people found unconscious at scene were still alive 10/22/2025 05:49am • KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) ��� Ugandan police lower crash death toll from 63 to 46 after saying some people found unconscious at scene were still alive. 6 arrested after protesters clash with police outside Dublin hotel housing asylum seekers 10/22/2025 05:14am • LONDON (AP) ��� Six people were arrested after a crowd outside a hotel housing migrants near Dublin threw bricks, bottles and fireworks at officers and burned a police van, Ireland���s national police force said Wednesday. One police officer was treated for a foot injury, said the force, the Garda S Finding the jewels and the brazen thieves in the Louvre heist is now a race against time 10/22/2025 04:21am • PARIS (AP) ��� The glittering sapphires, emeralds, and diamonds that once adorned France's royals could well be gone forever, experts say after a brazen, four-minute heist in broad daylight left the nation stunned and the government struggling to explain a new debacle at the Louvre. Each stolen piec Today in History: October 22, Lance Armstrong stripped of Tour titles 10/22/2025 04:10am • Today is Wednesday, Oct. 22, the 295th day of 2025. There are 70 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 22, 2012, cyclist Lance Armstrong was formally stripped of his seven Tour de France victories and received a lifetime ban from Olympic sports after the International Cycling Union chose Israeli settlers beat Palestinian farmers on video as attacks mount during West Bank olive harvest 10/22/2025 03:07am • RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) ��� Israeli settlers descended on Palestinian olive harvesters and activists this week in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, beating them with clubs in an attack Palestinian health officials said sent at least one woman to the hospital with serious injuries. The attack Sunday i Immigration agents shot a suspect after he rammed their vehicle during a LA stop, DHS says 10/22/2025 02:25am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Federal officers shot a man in the elbow after he rammed his car into law enforcement vehicles while trying to evade arrest Tuesday morning in Los Angeles, authorities said. A deputy U.S. Marshal assisting with the arrest was hit in the hand with a ricochet bullet, authorities s Police in Uganda say at least 63 people have been killed in a multiple vehicle crash in the country���s west 10/22/2025 02:03am • KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) ��� Police in Uganda say at least 63 people have been killed in a multiple vehicle crash in the country���s west. Peru's president declares state of emergency in capital as it tries to stem surging violence 10/22/2025 01:05am • LIMA, Peru (AP) ��� Peru's new president declared a state of emergency in the capital Tuesday in the government's latest attempt to stem a surge in violence that has stirred protests and contributed to the recent downfall of his predecessor. Peru has seen an increase of killings, violent extortion a Alabama board seeks to ban books that 'positively' depict trans themes from library youth sections 10/21/2025 11:03pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ��� An Alabama board is seeking to prohibit public libraries from placing books that ���positively��� depict transgender themes and topics in teen and children���s sections. The Alabama Public Library Service Board of Directors is considering a proposed rule change that expand Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky is remembered as a leader in the game's online surge 10/21/2025 10:44pm • Daniel Naroditsky, a 29-year-old standard-bearer in the world of competitive speed chess that flourished in the COVID-19 pandemic, died over the weekend and leaves behind a legacy as one of the greats of the game who helped usher in its digital era. The American grandmaster won several championships Guatemala passes anti-gang law, declares gangs terrorist groups 10/21/2025 10:18pm • GUATEMALA CITY (AP) ��� Guatemala passed a new anti-gang law on Tuesday aimed at giving the government more resources to fight the groups, which are now considered terrorist organizations. The law designates the Barrio 18 and Mara Salvatrucha gangs as terrorist groups, increases prison sentences for