LAHORE, Pakistan—A speeding bus collided with an oil tanker in Pakistan, killing 20 people in a fiery crash overnight, police and rescue officials said on Tuesday. “Three buses were racing. One of them rammed into an oil tanker,” police official Imran Shaukat told Reuters, describing the incident on a motorway near the central city of…

A woman accused of faking her own death and that of her son says she left Saskatoon because she feared for their safety. Dawn Marie Walker, 48, is in custody at the Multnomah County detention centre in Oregon. She was arrested Friday in Oregon City by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and charged with…

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka—Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled on a military jet on Wednesday after angry protesters seized his home and office, and appointed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as acting president while he is overseas. Wickremesinghe quickly declared a nationwide state of emergency to counter swelling protests over the country’s economic and political collapse. Rajapaksa…