U.S. President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer was released Friday after a judge ruled that he had been sent back to prison from home confinement as retaliation for his plan to release a book critical of Trump before November's election.
The first hurricane to threaten the United States since the start of the coronavirus pandemic is presenting new challenges for Hawaii officials long accustomed to tropical storms.
Louisa Batista, a 70-year-old chef at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in London, is celebrating working in the NHS for 50 years and never taking a single sick day.
A statue of Christopher Columbus in downtown Chicago's Grant Park was taken down early Friday, a week after protesters trying to topple the monument to the Italian explorer clashed with police.
The transcript from the black boxes from a Ukrainian jet accidentally shot down by Iran on Jan. 8 confirm the fact of illegal interference with the plane, Ukraine's deputy foreign minister wrote on Twitter on Friday.
Thousands of Muslim faithful made their way to Istanbul’s landmark Hagia Sophia on Friday to take part in the first prayers in 86 years at a structure that was once one of Christendom’s most significant cathedrals.
U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs has reached a $3.9 billion US settlement with the Malaysian government over the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal, the two sides said on Friday.
The White House touted a coronavirus briefing on Thursday by Donald Trump as a discussion of a strategy to reopen U.S. schools, but some education experts did not see many new details emerge and were left underwhelmed. Here's what's happening with the coronavirus around the world.
Major League Baseball and the players' union agreed Thursday to expand the playoffs from 10 teams to 16 for the pandemic-delayed season, a person familiar with the deal said, a decision that makes it likely teams with losing records will reach the post-season.
The NHL's newest team finally has its name: the Seattle Kraken. The expansion franchise unveiled its nickname Thursday, ending 19 months of speculation about whether the team might lean traditional or go eccentric with the name for the league's 32nd team.
A new paper published in Science on Thursday suggests that, with global efforts, we can drastically reduce the amount of plastic waste found on land and in our oceans, though eliminating it entirely isn't likely.
Sudanese authorities have found a mass grave believed to contain the bodies of 28 army officers shot in a foiled coup attempt against former President Omar al-Bashir in 1990, the public prosecutor said late Thursday.
