The Khmer Rouge's chief jailer, who admitted overseeing the torture and killings of as many as 16,000 Cambodians while running the regime's most notorious prison, has died.
Tropical Storm Omar formed off the U.S. East Coast on Tuesday as Tropical Storm Nana approached the coast of Central America, the U.S. National Hurricane Center reported.
The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has republished cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that made the outlet the target of a deadly terror attack in 2015. The announcement comes on the eve of the first trial.
The United Nations weather agency says this summer will go down for leaving a "deep wound" in the frozen parts of the planet after a heat wave in the Arctic, shrinking sea ice and the collapse of a leading Canadian ice shelf.
McDonald's Corp has been sued by 52 Black former franchise owners who accused the fast-food giant of racial discrimination by steering them to depressed, crime-ridden neighbourhoods and setting them up for failure.
Thousands of students boycotted the start of the school year in Belarus on Tuesday and signs of a possible rift appeared in an opposition alliance that has led weeks of rallies and protests against veteran President Alexander Lukashenko.
Hong Kong has tested thousands of people for coronavirus at the start of a mass-testing effort that's become another political flashpoint in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.
With Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announcing his plans to step down due to health reasons, members of his ruling party are furiously manouevring ahead of an internal vote that will ultimately decide his successor.
U.S. President Donald Trump is diving head first into the latest eruption in the nation's reckoning over racial injustice with a trip to to Kenosha Tuesday — over the objections of leaders in the Wisconsin city riven by protests since the Aug. 23 shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by police.
Tens of millions of pupils returned to school in France, Poland and Russia on Tuesday, their backpacks loaded with exercise books, geometry sets and, for many, face masks to protect them from a resurgent coronavirus pandemic.
When the bones of the early armoured dinosaur Scelidosaurus were unearthed in 1858 in west Dorset, England, they comprised the first complete dinosaur skeleton ever identified. Now, the first thorough evaluation of its fossils is finally giving Scelidosaurus its due.
The National Museum of Denmark is stripping the word "Eskimo" — a term many people consider outdated, even derogatory — from its exhibits, website and social media posts over the coming months.
