A shocking Australian military report into war crimes has found evidence that elite Australian troops unlawfully killed 39 Afghan prisoners, farmers and civilians.
A suburban Milwaukee police officer who has fatally shot three people in the line of duty since 2015, including a Black teenager outside a mall in February, is expected to receive about $130,000 US for resigning from the force.
BBC's board of directors approved the appointment of a retired senior judge to lead an independent investigation into the circumstances around a controversial 1995 TV interview with Princess Diana.
Northern Ireland police arrested a man Wednesday in connection with the 1974 bombings of two pubs in Birmingham, England. The bombings were one of the worst attacks committed by the Irish Republican Army during its armed campaign to get Britain out of Northern Ireland, which officially ended with the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.
U.S. President Donald Trump's re-election campaign said on Wednesday it was seeking a partial recount of Wisconsin's presidential election results as part of its long-shot attempt to reverse president-elect Joe Biden's victory.
Thai protesters splashed paint, daubed graffiti and sprayed water on police headquarters in Bangkok Wednesday, a day after dozens were hurt by tear gas and water cannon in the worst violence in months of anti-government demonstrations.
A U.S. judge on Wednesday granted the government's request to drop the drug trafficking and money laundering case against former Mexican Defence Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos and return him to Mexico.
Congo announced the end of an almost six-month Ebola outbreak in the west of the country on Wednesday, as health authorities looked to apply lessons from the successful response to the fight against COVID-19 in Africa.
The only known white giraffe in the world has been fitted with a GPS tracking device to help protect it from poachers as it grazes in Kenya.
The U.S. medical establishment on Tuesday urged President Donald Trump to share critical COVID-19 data with president-elect Joe Biden's team to avoid needless, deadly lags in tackling the pandemic.
After nearly two years of scrutiny, corporate upheaval and a standoff with global regulators, Boeing Co. is set to win approval on Wednesday from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to fly its 737 MAX jet again after two fatal disasters.
One of the top infectious diseases experts in the world says despite early successes in the pandemic, Canada faces a worsening situation until a COVID-19 vaccine is rolled out widely, and that the country needs to "double down" on public health measures.
More than five million arrivals into Canada have been allowed to skip the 14-day quarantine requirement put in place when the country closed its borders to non-essential travel in late March, the Canadian Border Services Agency estimates.
After a relatively calm summer, COVID-19 cases have begun a slow and steady rise in New York City and the surrounding area, prompting concerns about possible new closures as the Thanksgiving holiday looms.
Unleashing torrential floods even as it weakened, Storm Iota churned through Central America on Tuesday, causing swollen rivers to burst their banks, flipping roofs onto streets and killing at least nine people across the region.
