Saudi Arabia temporarily suspended entry to the kingdom for the Umrah Islamic pilgrimage and visits to al Masjid Al Nabawy in Medina, the ministry of foreign affairs announced on Twitter on Thursday amid fears over the spread of the new coronavirus.
Multiple people were killed Wednesday in a shooting on the Molson Coors Brewing Co. campus, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said. The dead include the shooter, said Barrett, who did not give an exact number of deceased.
U.S. President Donald Trump's re-election campaign said on Wednesday it filed a libel lawsuit against the New York Times, accusing the newspaper of intentionally publishing a false story last year related to the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election.
A Philadelphia nonprofit group has detailed plans to open the country's first medically supervised injection site next week to combat overdose deaths despite outrage from neighbours and opposition from the local U.S. Attorney.
The airline says it plans to launch the service on its direct flight between New York City and New Zealand's capital, Auckland, that will begin operating in October 2020.
Spain's culture ministry on Wednesday cancelled performances by Placido Domingo in Madrid in May following allegations of sexual harassment by the opera star.
The Trump administration can withhold millions of dollars in law enforcement grants to force states to co-operate with U.S. immigration enforcement, a federal appeals court in New York ruled Wednesday in a decision that conflicted with three other federal appeals courts.
An Indiana man who was holding his granddaughter before she fell from a cruise ship window and plunged to her death in Puerto Rico has agreed to a plea deal "to help end part of this nightmare."
Brazil's government confirmed on Wednesday that a 61-year-old Brazilian man who travelled to Italy this month has Latin America's first confirmed case of the contagious new coronavirus.
Tokyo Olympic organizers and the Japanese government went on the offensive Wednesday after a senior IOC member said the 2020 Games were being threatened by the spread of a viral outbreak, with their fate probably decided in the next three months.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeals for calm after days of clashes between Hindus and minority Muslims over a controversial citizenship law in some of the worst sectarian violence in the capital in decades.
Egypt held a full-honours military funeral Wednesday for the country's former autocratic President Hosni Mubarak, who ruled for decades before he was ousted in the 2011 Arab Spring uprising that swept much of the region.
Maria Sharapova is calling it a career. In an essay posted on Vanity Fair and Vogue on Wednesday, the five-time Grand Slam champion and former world No. 1 women's tennis player says she is saying goodbye to the sport she loves after 28 years.
The Walt Disney Co. has named Bob Chapek CEO, replacing Bob Iger, effective immediately.
Asia reported hundreds of new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, including the first U.S. soldier to be infected, as outbreaks in Italy and Iran spread to more countries.
Democrats in 2020 are going through the same sort of identity crisis that Republicans went through with Donald Trump in 2016: An outsider, openly contemptuous of the party machine and its direction, has pulled together the support of a significant and deeply committed minority of the party while the majority against him is split between too many candidates to stop him.
