A court on Wednesday approved a total of $800 million US in payout cash from casino company MGM Resorts International and its insurers to more than 4,400 relatives and victims of the Las Vegas strip shooting that was the deadliest in recent U.S. history.
Former FBI Director James Comey has defended the bureau's probe of links between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign against attacks by Republican senators over the secret monitoring of a former campaign aide.
Garda World Security Corp. is making a hostile play for G4S after the British security company spurned its $5.2 billion US offer two weeks ago.
Ukrainian authorities are investigating the death of a U.S. embassy employee in Kyiv who was found by railway tracks in a park on Wednesday, and are searching for a man suspected of assaulting her.
The Pittsburgh-Tennessee NFL game will be played either Monday or Tuesday due to positive coronavirus test results among the Titans.
Country star Mac Davis, who launched his career crafting the Elvis hits A Little Less Conversation and In the Ghetto, and whose own hits include Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me, has died. He was 78.
Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga can be handed over to a United Nations tribunal in Tanzania, France's top civil court ruled on Wednesday, dismissing his lawyers' arguments that he is too frail to be extradited.
Timothy Ray Brown, who made history as "the Berlin patient," the first person known to be cured of HIV infection, has died. He was 54.
Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces fought new clashes on Wednesday in the biggest eruption of their decades-old conflict since the mid-1990s. Meanwhile, France and Turkey traded recriminations as international tensions mounted.
An Indian court on Wednesday acquitted all 32 people accused of crimes in a 1992 attack and demolition of a 16th-century mosque that sparked Hindu-Muslim violence leaving 2,000 people dead.
Helen Reddy, who shot to stardom in the 1970s with her rousing feminist anthem I Am Woman and recorded a string of other hits, has died. She was 78.
Squeezed by attendance limits at its theme parks and other restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic, The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday it planned to lay off 28,000 workers in its parks division in California and Florida.
If there is a glimmer of a silver lining for Canada, the U.K. and its allies as they watch the brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters in Belarus, it's this: Russia probably doesn't want another Ukraine — and it certainly can't afford one.
