WARNING: This story contains disturbing details. Ten women filed a civil class-action lawsuit Thursday accusing one of Canada’s wealthiest businessmen and clothing manufaturers, Peter Nygard, of raping them at his seaside mansion in the Bahamas, and operating what they refer to as a “sex trafficking ring."
A Southern California aquarium has successfully bred the rare weedy sea dragon, the lesser known cousin of the sea horse that resembles seaweed when floating.
More than 140,000 Syrians have been displaced in the past three days alone by violence in the country's northwest, bringing the total of those uprooted in a Syrian government offensive against the last opposition stronghold to over 800,000.
The U.S. Senate approved a bipartisan measure Thursday limiting President Donald Trump's authority to launch military operations against Iran.
Past comments made by Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg about the controversial practices of stop-and-frisk policing and redlining are coming to the fore as he focuses on building relationships with black voters.
Senior members of the Swiss legislature are demanding a parliamentary investigation into a spying operation in which U.S. and German intelligence reportedly used a Swiss cryptography company as a front to eavesdrop on other countries.
Paul McIntyre, 52, appeared in court Thursday in Northern Ireland in connection with the killing of Lyra McKee, a journalist shot dead during a riot involving Irish Republican Army dissidents last year.
Anxiety over the coronavirus are challenging Japan's meticulous plans for the 2020 Summer Olympics, writes Chris Brown.
The publisher of the Miami Herald, the Kansas City Star and dozens of other newspapers across the United States is filing for bankruptcy protection.
British finance minister Sajid Javid resigned on Thursday, a surprise move that underlined Prime Minister Boris Johnson's desire to tighten his grip on government by jettisoning a minister who refused to toe the line.
A letter bomb caught fire at a bank in Amsterdam on Thursday and another was disarmed at an office near Utrecht, the latest in a series of such attacks in the Netherlands this week.
Closing arguments at the Harvey Weinstein rape trial are set to begin Thursday, with the jury hearing first from a lawyer who has taken #MeToo movement heat for making provocative mid-trial comments about his case outside of court.
New book by economist Thomas Piketty is an endorsement of the need for ideological change, but the "socialist" label may be frightening people conditioned by years of Cold War rhetoric.
