When it comes to drama, viewers have a plethora of choices from which to choose: movies, theater, news and sports, to name a few. But it’s been professional sports that have provided some of the most surprising attention grabbing moments of late. Under a gorgeous Philadelphia sky Sunday afternoon, Phillies …

LONDON – Newly published emails suggest the man who became known as “Jihadi John” had suicidal thoughts before leaving Britain for Syria. In an email exchange with the Mail on Sunday five years ago, he talked of taking too many sleeping pills and sleeping forever as a way to get …

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – A spokesman for South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar says peace talks are deadlocked over how to share power and that the only way forward is for the president to make concessions. Puoch Riek Deng, who is attending the South Sudan peace talks as a member …

BEIJING – At least two assailants armed with knives attacked people at a train station in southern China on Friday, injuring nine, and police fatally shot one of the suspects, officials said. The second suspect was captured, police in the city of Guangzhou said in a statement. The incident was …

DHAKA, Bangladesh – Bangladesh’s government has ordered a North Korean diplomat to leave the country after discovering $1.4 million of unauthorized gold in his bag when he arrived at Dhaka’s airport, a Foreign Ministry official said Monday. The ministry summoned North Korean Ambassador Ri Song Hyon on Monday and gave …

ATHENS, Greece – The former finance minister who handled Greece’s first international bailout in 2010 has denied criminal charges of allegedly removing relatives’ names from a list of Greeks holding Swiss bank accounts with HSBC. Speaking in court Thursday, George Papaconstantinou claimed the three names were intentionally deleted to inculpate …

BUCHAREST, Romania – Romania’s finance minister has resigned amid an investigation into suspicions that he took 2 million euros ($2.1 million) in bribes when he was a mayor. Darius Valcov handed in his resignation Sunday evening, hours after President Klaus Iohannis urged the prime minister to fire him as criticism …

PARIS – A key international economic monitor has nudged up its forecast for global economic growth this year amid low interest rates, inflation and oil prices in some major countries. The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, a grouping of the world’s richest countries that acts like a think tank, …

BUDAPEST, Hungary – Hungary’s junk credit rating has been upgraded by Standard & Poor’s, which cited the country’s improving growth outlook and its better preparedness to handle unexpected crises. S&P said in a statement Friday that it was raising Hungary’s rating from BB to BB+, one step below investment grade, …

MOSCOW – Russia officials say they will resume space tourism in 2018 after years of sending into space only professional cosmonauts and astronauts. Russia had sent seven paying guests to the International Space Station since 2001 before curtailing the program in 2009. Sending a tourist has been all but impossible …