Thailand's government cancelled a state of emergency it had declared for Bangkok last week after the embattled prime minister suggested the gesture to cool massive student-led protests seeking democracy reforms.
A trio of space travellers safely returned to Earth on Thursday after a six-month mission on the International Space Station. The Soyuz MS-16 capsule carrying NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, and Roscosmos' Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner landed in Kazakhstan.
The U.S. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said on Wednesday that Russia and Iran have both tried to interfere with the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
Thousands of protesters have been demonstrating across Nigerian cities, calling for an end to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a police unit set up in the 1980s to tackle criminality. It has become feared and loathed by Nigerians, accused of kidnapping, torture and killing.
U.S. Democrats are protesting President Donald Trump’s nomination of Barrett following the mid-September death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, arguing that he should have awaited the outcome of the Nov. 3 presidential election.
Ukraine has wrapped up its second round of "difficult and detailed" talks with Iran over the destruction of Flight PS752 and has been told Iran's safety investigation will be completed within a month, says Ukraine's ambassador to Canada.
At least 10 bodies have been found in an unmarked mass grave at a Tulsa, Okla., cemetery where investigators are searching for remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, a state official said Wednesday.
Rudy Giuliani is shown with his hand down his pants after flirting with an actress playing a young woman pretending to be a television journalist in a scene in Sacha Baron Cohen's latest mockumentary, a sequel to his hit Borat film.
Guinea's President Alpha Conde called for calm on Wednesday as opposition protests over initial results from Sunday's election, which showed him leading the field, turned deadly.
Purdue Pharma, the company that makes OxyContin, the powerful prescription painkiller that experts say helped touch off an opioid epidemic, will plead guilty to three federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than $8 billion US, Justice Department officials in the U.S. announced Wednesday.
The French government issued an order Wednesday to dissolve a domestic militant Islamic group after last week's beheading near Paris of a teacher who had shown students caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. The teacher, Samuel Paty, will be memorialized in a national ceremony on Wednesday evening.
Scientists seeking approval to deliberately infect healthy people with COVID-19 in trials must first convince ethics specialists that, among other things, they have potential 'rescue therapies' to halt the disease.
The British government on Wednesday put another 1.4 million people into England's tightest coronavirus restrictions, but faced growing criticism that its piecemeal approach to curbing the outbreak is sowing division and confusion.
Pope Francis says in a new film released on Wednesday that homosexuals should be protected by civil union laws, in some of the clearest language he has used on the rights of gays.
A day after donning a face mask for the first time during a liturgical service, Pope Francis was back to his mask-less ways Wednesday despite surging coronavirus infections across Europe and growing criticism of his behaviour and the example he is setting.
The president of the International Crisis Group used a high-level U.N. Security Council meeting attended by China's foreign minister Tuesday to appeal for the release of the think-tank 's northeast Asia expert, Michael Kovrig, who has been held by Beijing for nearly two years as part of a diplomatic dispute with Canada.
Former U.S. president Barack Obama will make his first appearance on the campaign trail on Wednesday for Democratic nominee Joe Biden, who is locked in a tight race with President Donald Trump in crucial states 13 days before the Nov. 3 election.
