The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has laid out sweeping eligibility reforms to the best picture category, intended to encourage diversity and equitable representation on screen and off.
A robot named Pepper greets people as they enter a Paris shopping venue and offers gentle reminders about wearing a mask.
Top police leaders in Rochester, N.Y., are retiring en masse amid criticism of the city's handling of the the suffocation death of Daniel Prude, Mayor Lovely Warren said Tuesday.
Allegations that U.S. President Donald Trump made crude, disparaging remarks about Nelson Mandela, South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize-winning former leader, have drawn an angry response from South Africa's ruling party and others.
In his book released today, Michael Cohen, the former fixer for U.S. President Donald Trump, for the first time ties evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr.'s 2016 presidential endorsement of Trump to Cohen's own role in helping to keep racy "personal" photos the Falwells from becoming public.
Caster Semenya finally lost her long legal battle Tuesday against track and field's rules to limit female runners' naturally high testosterone levels, meaning the South African cannot defend her Olympic 800-metre title at the Tokyo Olympics next year.
U.S. House Democrats say they will investigate whether Postmaster General Louis DeJoy encouraged employees at his business to contribute to Republican candidates and then reimbursed them in the guise of bonuses, a violation of campaign finance laws.
Disruption to schooling stemming from the coronavirus pandemic will cause a skill loss that could result in a 1.5 per cent drop in global economic output for the rest of this century, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development estimated.
The United Kingdom and the European Union blamed each other on Tuesday in their increasingly acrimonious post-Brexit trade discussions that could just be weeks from collapse.
A leading opposition activist in Belarus was held on the border Tuesday after she resisted an attempt by authorities to force her to leave the country, part of government efforts to end a month of protests against the re-election of the country's authoritarian leader.
The International Olympic Committee and Japanese organizers are trying to convince the public that the postponed Tokyo Olympics will take place next year despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Here's what's going on with the coronavirus around the world.
Two Australian foreign correspondents were flown out of China for their safety after being questioned by China's state security ministry, the Australian government said on Tuesday.
The rearranged Tokyo Games must be held "at any cost" in 2021, Japan's Olympic Minister Seiko Hashimoto said on Tuesday.
New wildfires ravaged bone-dry California during a scorching Labour Day weekend that saw a dramatic airlift of more than 200 people trapped by flames and ended with the state's largest utility turning off power to 172,000 customers to try to prevent its power lines and other equipment from sparking more fires.
Passengers at Frankfurt's airport have the option of visiting the COVID-19 testing centre, one of the few in Europe. Canadian airlines believe opening these facilities at airports here will encourage passengers to fly again. But there are detractors.
China said Indian forces crossed into territory it holds along their disputed border and fired warning shots at a Chinese patrol in a move it called a "serious military provocation" and a violation of their agreements.
Two men believed to be deserters from Myanmar’s army are in the custody of the International Criminal Court at The Hague after reporting their participation, under military orders, in the 2017 campaign of killing and rape of countless Rohingya Muslim civilians.
