The people closest to U.S. President Donald Trump — his family — star in the second night of the Republican National Convention as the party works to reintroduce the president to the American electorate in the midst of the campaign and pandemic.
Belarus jailed two opposition leaders for 10 days on Tuesday as the government pursued a crackdown on the few figures still at large, while schoolteachers led a new protest of thousands against President Alexander Lukashenko.
Officials say a young woman who had been declared dead was discovered still alive more than an hour later at a Detroit funeral home just as she was about to be embalmed.
Two European patients are confirmed to have been reinfected with the coronavirus, raising concerns about immunity to the virus as the world struggles to tame the pandemic.
Aided by weather and reinforcements, firefighters were cautiously optimistic Tuesday about their progress to pen in California wildfires that have killed at least seven people and burned more than 1,200 homes and other buildings.
Thousands of people were ordered to evacuate the Texas and Louisiana coasts Tuesday as Laura strengthened into a hurricane that forecasters said could slam into land as a major storm with ferocious winds and deadly flooding.
A federal judge on Monday blocked Apple Inc. from shutting down an Epic Games tool that's relied upon by hundreds of other app makers but had become the subject of an antitrust battle between the companies.
Mike Pompeo's planned speech to the Republican National Convention this week has sparked criticism for breaking decades of precedent for sitting U.S. secretaries of state avoiding overt partisan political activity.
A lockdown took hold in Gaza on Tuesday after confirmation of the first cases of COVID-19 in the general population of the Palestinian enclave, whose restricted borders have spared it from wide infection.
Israeli archaeologists have announced the discovery of a trove of early Islamic gold coins found during recent salvage excavations near the central city of Yavne.
Russian state media have trotted out familiar lines in the aftermath of the damning conclusion by German doctors that Vladimir Putin's biggest foe was poisoned.
A parachutist completed the world's first jump from a solar-powered aircraft on Tuesday after the plane soared to a height of 1,520 metres (nearly 5,000 ft) over western Switzerland, Swiss organizers said.
Anger over the shooting of a Black man by police spilled into the streets of Kenosha for a second night Monday, with police again firing tear gas at hundreds of protesters who defied a curfew, threw bottles and shot fireworks at law enforcement guarding the courthouse.
