A Texas man accused of deliberately targeting people of Mexican heritage in a shooting rampage that killed 22 people at an El Paso Walmart store last year has been indicted on 90 counts of federal hate crimes, according to a court document filed on Thursday.
Many Australians were experiencing a bittersweet break from the threat of bushfires on Thursday, with heavy rain deluging many areas and a tropical cyclone forecast to hit the country's northwest over the weekend.
Many bumblebee species have vanished from places where they were once common. Now a new Canadian-led study finds that hotter temperatures during heat waves are to blame, and uses it to predict which bumblebees are most likely to face local extinction as the climate warms.
Irish Republican Army dissidents planted a bomb on a truck that was intended to explode on the day Britain left the European Union last week, police in Northern Ireland said Thursday.
Prosecutors in Harvey Weinstein's rape trial rested their case on Thursday after more than two weeks of testimony punctuated by harrowing accounts from six women who say he excused his behaviour as a Hollywood norm.
The newly elected premier of the German state of Thuringia called for the dissolution of the state assembly on Thursday after Chancellor Angela Merkel said his election with support from her party and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) was inexcusable.
Hong Kong's government has brought in a stringent new measure to try to protect itself from a steady rise in coronavirus cases, evoking memories of the SARS outbreak 17 years ago, Chris Brown writes.
President Donald Trump was not in the mood to forgive and forget the Democrat-led bid to remove him from office on Thursday, even as other speakers at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., made pleas to bridge America's partisan divide.
China on Thursday finished building a second new hospital to isolate and treat patients of a virus that has killed more than 560 people and continues to spread, disrupting travel and people's lives and fuelling economic fears.
A high-speed passenger train derailed in northern Italy before dawn Thursday on the heavily used Milan-Bologna line, with the engine completely detaching and hurtling 100 yards before slamming into a train service car on an adjacent track. Two train workers were killed and 28 people were injured, authorities said.
NASA astronaut Christina Koch, who has spent nearly 11 months in orbit on the longest spaceflight by a woman, landed safely in Kazakhstan on Thursday along with two of her International Space Station crewmates.
Aided by sniffer dogs, Turkish rescue workers scanned an avalanche field in eastern Turkey on Thursday, searching for a final missing person after two avalanches that killed dozens, Turkish news agencies reported.
With nearly all votes counted, Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders are nearly tied in the Iowa Democratic caucuses, a contest marred by technical issues and reporting delays.
Palestinian farmers in the Jordan Valley always keep one eye on their crops, which provide their livelihoods, but they also look toward the city they revere — and fear losing — in the wake of the peace plan put forward by U.S. President Donald Trump.
A car ran down and injured 12 Israeli soldiers and two other people in Jerusalem early on Thursday before fleeing, Israeli military and medical officials said, in an incident police described as a suspected Palestinian attack.
