The game between the San Diego Padres and Washington was suspended in the sixth inning Saturday night after a shooting outside Nationals Park that caused...

Vietnam put its entire southern region in a two-week lockdown starting midnight Sunday, as confirmed COVID-19 cases exceeded 3,000 for the third day in a...

Australian authorities ordered more businesses to close Saturday along with a slew of new restrictions in the country's largest city as a weeks-long lockdown failed...

Representatives of the Afghan government and the Taliban were due to meet in Doha for talks on Saturday as violence rages in the country while...

Leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) group, including US President Joe Biden, Russia's Vladimir Putin, and China's Xi Jinping, pledged on Friday (Jul 16)...

The United States imposed sanctions on Friday (Jul 16) on seven Chinese officials over Beijing's crackdown on democracy in Hong Kong, Washington's latest effort to...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will pledge on Thursday to "level up" the forgotten parts of Britain without damaging those areas that are thriving.Mr Johnson,...

Dr Liam Fox, a former Conservative cabinet minister, has announced that he will take a public role in promoting the ideals of the Abraham Accords...

New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern will host an emergency meeting of APEC leaders Friday aimed at bolstering vaccine rollouts to contain the fast-spreading coronavirus variants now...

As many Asian countries battle their worst surge of COVID-19 infections, the slow-flow of vaccine doses from around the world is finally picking up speed,...

Australia changed one word in its national anthem to reflect what the prime minister called "the spirit of unity" and the country's indigenous population.Prime Minister...

Face masks will remain compulsory on London’s transport network despite the UK government’s decision to make them voluntary from next week.London Mayor Sadiq Khan said...

The COVID-19 curve in the U.S. is rising again after months of decline, with the number of new cases per day doubling over the past...

Sydney's five million residents will be in virus lockdown for at least another two weeks, New South Wales state Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced on Wednesday.Australia's...

Apartment blocks in two Australian cities have been placed under strict lockdown with residents barred from leaving on Tuesday, as authorities stepped up efforts to...

Facing rising fears of summer violence, U.S. President Joe Biden is embarking on a political high-wire act, trying to balance his strong backing for law...

At least 50 people were killed and more than 60 injured in a fire probably caused by an oxygen tank explosion at a coronavirus hospital...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces a rebellion in Parliament from his Conservative Party over his government's plans to slash foreign aid by about £4...

Haitian police announced on Sunday (Jul 11) that they had arrested a Haitian national "who had political objectives" in recruiting the gunmen who assassinated President...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will urge caution on Monday as he is expected to confirm plans to remove nearly all Covid-19 restrictions in England...

Firefighters working in searing weather struggled to contain a Northern California wildfire that continued to grow Sunday and forced the temporary closure of a major...

Australia reported another spike in new coronavirus cases Monday, as a lockdown in the country's largest city Sydney failed to halt a rapidly growing cluster...

California will require that masks be worn at schools when classrooms open this fall, despite new guidance issued Friday from the Centers for Disease Control...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke with Israel's new leader Naftali Bennett on Friday and invited him to the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow later...

The Taliban claimed on Friday that they now control 85% of Afghanistan's territory amid a surge in wins on the ground and as American troops...

President Joe Biden told Russian President Vladimir Putin in a Friday phone call that he must “take action” against cybercriminals acting in his country and...

Praying, crying and waiting for news about their children, the parents of more than 120 Nigerian students abducted by armed bandits at the Bethel Baptist...

Former President Donald Trump has filed suit against three of the country's biggest tech companies, claiming he and other conservatives have been wrongfully censored. But...

The global death toll from COVID-19 eclipsed 4 million Wednesday as the crisis increasingly becomes a race between the vaccine and the highly contagious delta...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will host a press conference on Monday to set out plans for the final step of the lockdown roadmap in...

Germany should lift all remaining social and economic curbs as soon as everyone has been offered a vaccine against the coronavirus, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas...

Canada named Mary Simon on Tuesday as its first indigenous governor general — Queen Elizabeth II's official representative in the Commonwealth country — as the...

Spain's cabinet approved a draft bill on Tuesday that strengthens the country's laws against rape by requiring explicit consent for sex acts, a move long...

Sydney’s two-week lockdown has been extended for another week due to the vulnerability of an Australian population largely unvaccinated against COVID-19, officials said on Wednesday.“The...

An inquiry has revealed that working age adults in England’s poorest areas were almost four times more likely to die from Covid-19 than those in...

Britain plans to scrap laws requiring face masks and social distancing later this month, Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed Monday, even as he acknowledged that...

As crews peel away layer after layer of the collapsed condo tower in South Florida, the death toll increases — and so does the burden...

As the 20th anniversary of the Sept 11 terrorist attacks approaches, victims' relatives are pressing the courts to answer what they see as lingering questions...

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will celebrate the 73rd anniversary of Britain's National Health Service on Monday.In the morning, Prince William and his wife...

US President Joe Biden prepared to throw a huge Independence Day party on Sunday to hail America's defeat of Covid-19, amid concern that pockets of...

Demolition crews set off explosives late Sunday to bring down the damaged remaining portion of a collapsed South Florida condo building, a key step to...

Getting vaccinated in Australia is like "The Hunger Games," a top health official admitted Monday, as the country battles scarce supplies during a growing COVID-19...

More than 6 million European Union citizens applied to settle in the UK before the end-June deadline that the British government had imposed as part...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday denounced a wave of vandalism across Canada that saw churches damaged and statues of monarchs splashed with red paint...

Imtiaz Mohmand, just 19, makes a living selling melons out of a crate perched on his three-wheel motorcycle in the Afghan capital’s Kart-e-Now neighborhood. He...

Journalist Nathan Maung turned to meditation when he was jailed for reporting on Myanmar's bloody coup, but even back home in sleepy Virginia, he can't...

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said he was opposed to mandatory coronavirus vaccinations for Russians but urged the jab-skeptic population to get inoculated, as his...

Fresh off his first rally since leaving the White House, former President Donald Trump stepped further back into the political spotlight with a visit to...

Donald Rumsfeld, the two-time defense secretary and one-time presidential candidate whose reputation as a skilled bureaucrat and visionary of a modern U.S. military was unraveled...

Pennsylvania’s highest court threw out Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction and released him from prison Wednesday in a stunning reversal of fortune for the comedian...

Australian officials extended lockdown and social distancing measures to more of the country on Wednesday, with four major cities already under a hard lockdown in...

Germany’s last troops left Afghanistan on Tuesday after nearly 20 years of presence in the country, the defence minister said.Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer tweeted that the last...

Britain will bring forward its target to end the use of coal in electricity generation by a year to October 2024, the government said on...

US President Joe Biden this weekend aimed to deter Iran-backed militias from continuing attacks against American forces with his second strike against them since taking...

The death toll from the partial collapse of the 12-storey Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, on Thursday has reached 11, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine...

President Joe Biden sought to assure Israel that he would not tolerate a nuclear Iran as he met with outgoing Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on...

More than 10 million Australians have been ordered into lockdown as coronavirus cases spread across the country, and Brisbane on Tuesday became the fourth major...

Australia was battling to contain several COVID-19 clusters around the country on Monday in what some experts have described as the nation’s most dangerous stage...

The Tunisian Defence Ministry on Sunday said its navy had rescued 178 migrants who were trying to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to reach Europe.Two...

Britain’s health secretary has resigned after a tabloid splashed photos and videos of him kissing an aide in his office — breaking the same coronavirus...

North Korean state television has aired a citizen's comment about Kim Jong Un's "emaciated" condition, a highly unusual broadcast in a country where public discussion...

Former President Donald Trump reprised his election grievances and baseless claims of fraud as he returned to the rally stage Saturday, holding his first campaign-style...

UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who has led the country's response to the coronavirus, resigned Saturday, a day after apologizing for breaching social distancing rules...

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday poured the first load of cement in the building of what he has called his “crazy project” -...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s office struck a good tone this week on reaching a potential agreement with the US that would bring both countries back...

The former Philippine president, Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III, who originated from one of the country's most prominent pro-democracy political families, has died in Manila.He passed...

A rare tornado tore through the south-eastern Czech Republic, killing at least three persons and injuring hundreds, rescue services said on Friday.The tornado formed late...

Former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd, whose dying gasps under Chauvin’s knee...

Seattle has only hit 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) three times in recorded history. The National Weather Service says the town could top triple...

The US and UN on Wednesday called on Ethiopia to investigate an air strike that killed dozens of people in a busy market in the...

US President Joe Biden pledged on Wednesday to follow illegal gun dealers and boost federal funding and support for local law enforcement, as homicides have...

John McAfee, the creator of McAfee antivirus software, was found dead in his jail cell near Barcelona in an apparent suicide Wednesday, hours after a...

Five years back Wednesday, Britons voted in a referendum that was designed to bring certainty to the UK’s unsettled relationship with its European neighbors.Fat chance.Voters’...

Sydneysiders were largely banned from leaving metropolis Wednesday as Australian authorities rushed to avoid a growing outbreak of the highly contagious Delta COVID-19 variant from...

Britain’s aid watchdog has rated the UK government “inadequate” in three reviews of its aid programmes.The federal government faced heavy criticism after announcing £4 billion...

Democrats in the US Congress on Tuesday failed to pass a legislative package designed to protect voting rights in the united states amid a Republican...

Australia's most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), on Tuesday (Jun 22) reported its biggest upsurge in new locally acquired COVID-19 cases in practically weekly,...

Iran’s president-elect staked out a hard-line position Monday in his first remarks since his landslide election victory, rejecting the possibility of meeting with President Joe...

Australia will strongly oppose a Unesco plan to list the fantastic Barrier Reef as "in danger" over deterioration due to climate change.The UN body released...

Cathay Pacific is dealing with Airbus to introduce "reduced crew" long-haul flights with a sole pilot in the cockpit most of the time, industry sources...

Elections described by Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed as the country’s “first attempt at a free of charge and fair election” occurred on Monday.Voting was...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan claimed victory in early stages Monday in snap parliamentary elections called to defuse a political crisis after a disastrous war...

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan is playing down the impact that hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi’s recent victory in the Iranian presidential elections could have...

Israel's new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett opened his first cabinet meeting on Sunday by slamming Iran's newly-elected president and contacting world powers to “awaken” to...

The U.S. special representative for North Korea on Monday wanted to meet with Pyongyang "anywhere, anytime, without preconditions", without public contact so far between your...

Russia's capital Moscow on Saturday reported a pandemic high for new coronavirus cases for the second straight day, while Saint Petersburg introduced fresh restrictions before...

AMERICA announced Saturday that 2.5 million COVID vaccine doses were on their way to Taiwan in a move more likely to draw disapproval from Beijing,...

Long-time Tesla executive and president Jerome Guillen, who left the business earlier this month, has sold an estimated $274 million worth of shares after exercising...

Brazil's death toll from Covid-19 surpassed 500,000 on Saturday as specialists warn that the world's second-deadliest outbreak may worsen due to delayed vaccinations and the...

Thousands of protesters from across Turkey travelled to Istanbul on Saturday to march against the country’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, amid a growth in...

The US Pentagon on Friday confirmed it is removing troops and capacities from the Middle East come early july to be redeployed to other regions.Pentagon...

U.S. President Joe Biden took a cautious victory lap Friday in his quest to bring the COVID-19 pandemic in order, announcing that 300 million vaccine...

Congratulations poured in for Iranian ultraconservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi on Saturday for winning presidential elections even before official results were announced.Iran's outgoing moderate President Hassan...

The leaders of Germany and France called for vigilance Friday to prevent the spread of a coronavirus variant that this week prompted Britain to delay...

Five years back the murder of politician Jo Cox sent shockwaves around the world and resulted in a “watershed” moment in the manner the UK...

U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin concluded their summit on Wednesday with an agreement to come back their nations' ambassadors with their...

Five editors and executives at pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper were arrested Thursday under Hong Kong's national security law, its stock was halted and police were...

New Zealand's economy posted better-than-expected growth of 1 1.6 percent in the first quarter of 2021, official data showed Thursday, with analysts saying activity was...

Israel carried out air strikes on the Gaza Strip early Wednesday after militants in the Palestinian territory sent incendiary balloons in to the south of...

With Afghan troops in retreat and soon to reduce essential American air support, Taliban commanders are voicing exuberance about quickly seizing full control of the...

A French man of North African origin has accused Netflix of racial discrimination for calling him a radical Islamist in an action movie that he...

U.S. President Joe Biden said Monday he would lay down "red lines" to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at their upcoming meeting, after rallying NATO...

Following the Knesset vote on Sunday that ended the Benjamin Netanyahu era, it took US President Joe Biden less than 25 minutes to issue a...

A woman behind a supermarket checkout in the US state of Georgia was shot dead by a person on Monday in a dispute over wearing...

A high official in the European Medicines Agency said it could possibly be worth abandoning AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine for all age ranges where alternatives were...

As the Delta variant causes a surge in coronavirus numbers in the UK, in the united states where in fact the variant originated, India, it's...

U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday said the United States had restored its presence on the world stage as he used his first overseas trip...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Monday she'll offer a formal apology to New Zealand's Pacific community over "demeaning" police raids that targeted them in the...

Israeli lawmakers are to vote Sunday on a "change" coalition government of bitter ideological rivals united by their determination to banish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

US President Joe Biden reaffirmed his support for the Tokyo Olympics at a gathering with japan Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Saturday (Jun 12), highlighting...

The United States and China clashed in rare talks on Friday (Jun 11) as President Joe Biden built his international debut at the Group of...

The person who slapped French President Emmanuel Macron during an election walkabout has been jailed for four weeks.Damien Tarel, 28, was handed an 18-month sentence,...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday gave the Tokyo Olympics a show of public support at a meeting with Japan's Yoshihide Suga and welcomed...

Band of Seven leaders brought pledges to share vaccine doses and make a fairer global economy Friday to a seaside summit in England, where British...

A three-story dilapidated setting up collapsed following heavy monsoon rains in the western Indian town of Mumbai, killing at least 11 persons and injuring seven...

EUROPE denounced on Wednesday Hong Kong's important overhaul of its political system as a breach by China of its international commitments and threatened to send...

U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday commenced his first trip overseas since taking business office by hailing America's unwavering determination to the NATO alliance and...

US Security Secretary Lloyd Austin issued an interior directive calling for several initiatives to counter China, US officials said on Wednesday (Jun 9), but handful...

Several of the richest Us citizens have paid zero tax in some years, according to a great investigative article published Tuesday that shows up as...

Five million Melbourne people will exit lockdown Thursday just after Australian authorities said their adherence to rigorous rules had "modified the course" of a coronavirus...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken cast doubt on Tuesday (Jun 8) on the methodology of a report on the origins of COVID-19 cited by...

The US Senate voted 68-32 on Tuesday (Jun 8) to approve a sweeping package of legislation intended to boost the country's capability to compete with...

The top of the World Overall health Organisation on Monday warned of a “two-track pandemic”, with deaths among older people declining in countries with higher...

The US Department of Justice said it recovered huge amount of money in cryptocurrency that was the main ransom paid to DarkSide, the criminal group...

US Secretary of Condition Antony Blinken on Mon said Iran could lower its nuclear weapon breakout time to “a matter of weeks” should it continue...

Outdoing his fellow billionaires in daredevilry, Jeff Bezos will blast into space the following month when his Blue Origin service makes its first air travel...

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris offered a good outlook for better cooperation with Guatemala on addressing the spike in migration to the U.S. after her...

US President Biden can look to reset relations with G7 members on Wednesday, as he have his 1st foreign trip since coming to office.The president...

Republicans are fighting to assume control of Congress. Simply don't request what they'd carry out if they win.Look no further for proof the GOP's muddled...

Kamala Harris, on her first foreign trip seeing as vice president, is looking to deepen diplomatic ties with Guatemala and Mexico, two Latin American nations...

Dutch judges will in Mon (Jun 7) start hearing evidence against three Russian suspects and a Ukrainian in the downing of Malaysia Airlines airline flight...

Saturday saw the primary cruise ship cast off from Venice after practically one . 5 years' suspension as a result of coronavirus pandemic, reinflaming a...

The first cruise ship to keep Venice since coronavirus restrictions were eased set sail on Saturday, but some regional residents protested over the go back...

Roving sets of terrorists killed in least 100 civilians within an overnight attack in a village in northern Burkina Faso, the government said.The attackers struck...

Boris Johnson will use next week’s G7 summit to urge the world’s greatest economies to pledge to vaccinate the global people from Covid-19 by the...

China on Saturday berated the U.S. and EU consulates in Hong Kong for showing candles to commemorate the June 4 Tiananmen crackdown, slamming it as...

Ex - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence says that he isn’t sure that he and past President Donald Trump will ever before see “eye to...

Facebook on Friday suspended former US president Donald Trump from it is platform until in least January 2023 found in a decision that is watched...

EU ambassadors agreed to ban Belarus airlines from flying over the bloc’s territory or perhaps landing at its airports.It's the latest step taken by Brussels...

France on Thursday said it would suspend joint military operations with Malian forces after the African country's second coup in nine months.The move by Paris...

NASA announced two latest missions to Venus on Wednesday which will launch by the end of the 10 years and are aimed at learning how...

A mafia boss nicknamed "the Pig" who killed a renowned prosecutor and dissolved a boy's body in acid was released from jail on Mon, sparking...

President Joe Biden announced a good month-long push for June to vaccinate more persons in the US against Covid-19 within a move to bring the...

The US on Wednesday positioned a bounty as high as $7 million on the first choice of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the organisation’s...

Senior US diplomat Linda Thomas-Greenfield will visit Turkey this week to push for the continuation of cross-border aid deliveries into war-torn Syria, before a UN...

The World Wellbeing Organisation has approved a Covid-19 vaccine created by Sinovac Biotech for emergency use, the next Chinese-produced shot to receive its endorsement.WHO crisis...

Britain about Tuesday reported zero daily deaths from COVID-19 for the very first time since previous July, despite a recently available rise in cases linked...

A good coronavirus lockdown of Australia's second-biggest town will be extended by another a week, authorities announced Wednesday, because they try to stamp out a...

New Zealand announced Tuesday it had been the most recent country to sign a space arrangement with NASA, just as New Zealand's nascent space industry...

An Australian court on Tuesday rejected a task to the federal government government’s draconian capacity to prevent most residents from leaving the country in order...