Tension gripped the streets of Philadelphia for a second night on Tuesday following a deadly police shooting of a Black man armed with a knife and described by relatives as suffering from a mental breakdown as he was confronted by law enforcement.
At least four people, including two young children, died Tuesday when their boat capsized while they and other migrants tried to cross the English Channel to Britain, French authorities said.
A federal judge on Tuesday denied President Donald Trump's request that the United States replace him as the defendant in a defamation lawsuit alleging he raped a woman in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.
Antibodies against the novel coronavirus declined rapidly in the population in England during the summer, suggesting protection after infection may not be long-lasting, researchers say.
Around 10,000 people in Bangladesh rallied in the South Asian nation's capital on Tuesday to protest France's president and his staunch support of secular laws that deem caricatures depicting the Prophet Muhammad as protected under freedom of speech.
Italians turned out by the hundreds in several cities and towns to vent anger, sometimes violently, over the latest pandemic restrictions that force restaurants and cafés to close early and shutter cinemas, gyms and other leisure venues.
Wind-driven walls of flame spurred mass evacuations in Southern California and left two firefighters badly injured Monday, as hundreds of thousands of residents endured a second day of power shutoffs meant to counter heightened fire risks from dry and gusty weather.
Keith Raniere, a self-improvement guru whose organization NXIVM attracted millionaires and actors, faces sentencing Tuesday on convictions that he turned some female followers into sex slaves branded with his initials.
Refugees from places like Congo and Iraq have seen their protections in the U.S. fade over the last four years as the Trump administration chips away at policies once designed to protect some of the world's most vulnerable people.
Support for Trump by people of strong Christian faith is not the contradiction it may seem, writes Michael Coren.
A powerful bomb blast ripped through an Islamic seminary on the outskirts of the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday morning, killing at least seven students and wounding 112 others, police and a hospital spokesman said.
