From the opening bell, Mike Bloomberg faced fierce attacks from his Democratic rivals over race and gender at Wednesday night's high-stakes debate in Las Vegas as the former New York City mayor faced off on the debate stage for the first time.
Eight people were killed on Wednesday in two shootings in the western German city of Hanau, police said.
Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing a Russian-backed Syrian offensive are being squeezed into ever smaller areas near Turkey's border "under horrendous conditions" in freezing temperatures that are killing babies and young children, the UN humanitarian chief said Wednesday.
'There is nothing left,' said one farmer in Kenya after a locust invasion destroyed her crops.
An up-and-coming rapper known as Pop Smoke was fatally shot during a break-in early Wednesday at a Hollywood Hills home, his label said.
A patient at a British hospital played Mahler and Gershwin on the violin while a tumour was removed from her brain so that surgeons could preserve her ability to play music and honour her 40-year passion for the instrument.
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan says a Turkish military operation to push back a Syrian government offensive against rebel strongholds in northwest Syria is now only "a matter of time" after talks with Russia failed to halt the assault.
China on Wednesday said it has revoked the press credentials of three reporters for the U.S. newspaper The Wall Street Journal over a headline for an opinion column deemed racist by the government.
Malaysia has never ruled out the possibility that missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 could have been downed by a suicidal pilot, the country's former prime minister Najib Razak said on Wednesday.
Britain announced new post-Brexit immigration rules Wednesday that will make it tougher for European Union citizens, but easier for people from many other nations, to move to the U.K. starting next year.
Mainland China reported Wednesday 1,749 new cases and 136 additional deaths. While the overall spread of the COVID-19 illness has been slowing, the situation remains severe in Hubei province, which has Wuhan as its capital.
Hundreds of people began disembarking a cruise ship quarantined in Japan on Wednesday as criticism mounted of the country's handling of the outbreak.
Among some Democrats, there are fears that the billionaire candidate Mike Bloomberg will merely patch up the U.S. economy, rather than bring real and essential change that could help the disenfranchised.
Canada came within a whisker of losing its place in a United Nations peacekeeping mission in the fall of 2018 because of the military's inability to consistently deploy enough women to meet the world body's guidelines.
The picture of the coronavirus outbreak now coming into focus is one of mostly mild cases, with increased risk of severe symptoms and death for the elderly and patients with pre-existing conditions, a new Chinese study suggests.
