Mike Bloomberg seized on reports that Russia is interfering in the 2020 presidential election to help Democratic front-runner Bernie Sanders as the party's candidates met on the debate stage for what could be their final prime-time opportunity to change the direction of the nomination fight.
Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano erupted overnight with a dramatic show of lava and ash.
Airstrikes on rebel-controlled northwestern Syrian killed at least 16 people Tuesday, including two students and two teachers, opposition activists said, as government forces closed in on a town considered a symbol of the uprising against President Bashar Assad.
The European Union on Tuesday gave its chief negotiator a robust mandate for free trade talks with the United Kingdom, setting up a likely clash over the ex-member's demand to export to the continent on its own terms.
Shares in U.S. drug company Moderna Inc. surge by more than 16 per cent after the company announced it has shipped its first batch of a possible coronavirus vaccine for humans to the government department in charge of testing its safety and effectiveness.
The entertainment world is hitting pause on and changing plans for a variety of events — from upcoming film shoots for the next Mission: Impossible to promotional appearances by K-pop superstars BTS — as the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread globally.
Although a New York jury found former producer Harvey Weinstein guilty of rape and sexual assault, many activists caution that the fight to fix a 'broken system' continues.
Scientists have spotted in rocks from northern China what may be the oldest fossils of a green plant ever found, tiny seaweed that carpeted areas of the seafloor roughly a billion years ago and were part of a primordial revolution among life on Earth.
An investigation into Placido Domingo by the U.S. union representing opera performers found more than two dozen people who said they were sexually harassed or witnessed inappropriate behaviour by the superstar when he held senior management positions at Washington National Opera and Los Angeles Opera.
Prosecutors are seeking nearly two years in prison for an heiress to the Hot Pockets microwavable snack fortune who agreed to pay $300,000 US to cheat the college admissions process for her daughters in a nationwide bribery scheme.
Dick Pound, the longest-serving member of the International Olympic Committee, estimates there's a three-month window to decide the fate of this summer's Tokyo Olympics, which are being threatened by the fast-spreading virus from China.
An angry group of Hindus carrying pickaxes and iron rods hurled rocks at Muslims in new violence in the Indian capital on Tuesday, a day after at least seven people, including a police officer, were killed and more than 100 others were reportedly injured in clashes over a new citizenship law that excludes Muslims, police said.
A court in eastern China has sentenced a Swedish seller of books that took a skeptical look at the ruling Communist Party to 10 years in prison for "illegally providing intelligence overseas," in a further sign of Beijing's hard line toward its critics.
Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian leader who for nearly 30 years was the resolute face of stability in the Mideast before being forced by the military to resign after 18-day nationwide protests that were part of the Arab world's 2011 pro-democracy upheaval, died on Tuesday, the country's state-run TV said. He was 91.
The novel coronavirus has infected more than 80,000 people globally, causing around 2,700 deaths. The majority of the cases have been in China — but there is growing concern as case numbers rise in countries like South Korea, Iran and Italy.
As the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread outside of China, experts say the situation is rapidly moving toward a pandemic. Adam Miller looks at why the World Health Organization isn't calling it one just yet.
Joe Biden is staring down what could be the end of his political career. The former U.S. vice-president's campaign is hobbling toward its do-or-die moment this weekend in South Carolina. Katie Simpson looks at the major challenges facing Biden.
In December 2017, Margarita Gracheva's husband brutally attacked her. She has since emerged as one of the most high-profile victims of Russia's epidemic of domestic violence, Chris Brown writes.
