A federal judge threw out the unequal pay claim by players on the U.S. women's national soccer team but allowed their allegation of discriminatory travel accommodations and medical support services to go to trial.
A roundup of events from some cities around the globe.
A state media outlet in North Korea says leader Kim Jong-un has made his first public appearance in 20 days amid rumours about his health. The Korean Central News Agency reports he attended a ceremony marking the completion of a fertilizer factory.
Shares of Tesla tumbled nine per cent on Friday after CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the electric carmaker's high-flying stock was overly expensive.
The Duchess of Sussex lost an early round in a London court Friday when a judge dismissed part of her lawsuit against the publisher of a British newspaper that put out excerpts of a letter to her estranged father.
Picturesque Florence and Ostia prepare to slowly transition to a somewhat new normal beginning May 4.
The Department of National Defence has officially given up hope of finding survivors from this week's crash of a CH-148 Cyclone helicopter off the coast of Greece, and has switched its search efforts to recovering remains and aircraft wreckage.
Southwest Airlines and Alaska Airlines rolled out requirements for passengers and staff to wear masks when travelling, following similar edicts earlier this week from American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and JetBlue Airways.
The United States is keeping Canada on its "watch list" of countries where policies and practices could pose a threat to American intellectual property rights. In its annual report on foreign perils to American rights holders, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) raised concerns about Canada's plan to recalibrate how it calculates the price of prescription drugs.
Texas and Ohio pushed ahead on Friday with a phased relaxation of restrictions that U.S. states put in place weeks ago to curb the coronavirus pandemic, as Georgia took another step toward a full restart by allowing all businesses to reopen.
Joe Biden on Friday gave his first public comments on a sexual assault allegation that has threatened to roil his presidential campaign, denying such an incident occurred in 1993.
Alberta and Newfoundland became the latest provinces on Thursday to release frameworks for how they would reopen their economies, but as the guidelines come out, many businesses, health practitioners and even cities are working to figure out how they will operate as restrictions put in place because of COVID-19 are lifted. Here's a look at what's happening in Canada, the U.S. and around the world.
Ozone depletion over the Arctic hit a "record level" in March, the biggest since 2011, but the hole has now closed, the U.N. World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Friday.
U.S. President Donald Trump has speculated that China could have unleashed the coronavirus on the world due to some kind of horrible "mistake," and his intelligence agencies said they are still examining a notion put forward by the president and aides that the pandemic may have resulted from an accident at a Chinese lab.
Measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 are already reshaping urban areas, and some cities have rolled out ambitious plans to make some of the changes more permanent.
Beijing's parks and museums including the ancient Forbidden City reopened to the public Friday after being closed for months by the coronavirus pandemic.
