Hong Kong's leader strongly endorsed the new security law China's central government is imposing on the semi-autonomous territory in her speech marking Wednesday's anniversary of its handover from colonial Britain.
The attorney general for New York said on Tuesday that an agreement had been reached to settle for nearly $19 million US to resolve two sexual misconduct lawsuits on behalf of multiple women against imprisoned former film producer Harvey Weinstein.
Politicians around the world have called for a United Nations probe into a Chinese government birth control campaign targeting largely Muslim minorities in the far western region of Xinjiang, even as Beijing said it treats all ethnicities equally under the law.
With a stroke of the governor's pen, Mississippi is retiring the last state flag in the United States with the Confederate battle emblem — a symbol that's widely condemned as racist.
Dr. Anthony Fauci said COVID-19 cases could grow to 100,000 a day in the United States if Americans don't start following public health recommendations.
After COVID-19 pushed Brexit from the headlines and crunched the timeline, the EU and U.K. are back at the negotiating table, meeting face to face to seek a new trade relationship.
Carl Reiner, an ingenious and versatile comedy writer, actor and director, has died.
For the first time in Belgium's history, a reigning king expressed regret Tuesday for the violence carried out by the former colonial power when it ruled over what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The European Union on Tuesday is announcing a list of countries whose citizens will be allowed to enter 31 European countries, but most Americans are likely to be refused entry for at least another two weeks because of soaring coronavirus infections in the U.S.
A new flu virus found in Chinese pigs has become more infectious to humans and needs to be watched closely in case it becomes a potential "pandemic virus," a study said, although experts said there is no imminent threat.
Cities and states across the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia are closing businesses and reverting back to lockdown measures as coronavirus cases surge following a spate of recent reopenings.
On the eve of a Russian referendum that could increase President Vladimir Putin's power and ban gay marriage, Russian pundits are accusing Canada's ambassador to Russia of trying to influence the vote.
Despite taking a hit on the market, Facebook is unlikely to suffer significant damage from the growing ad boycott over its policies on hate speech, say some marketing experts. And some companies could be hurting themselves more by limiting their exposure on the social media giant.
