The U.S. House of representatives voted Monday to increase COVID-19 relief cheques to $2,000 US, meeting President Donald Trump's demand for bigger payments and sending the bill to the Republican-controlled Senate, where the outcome is uncertain.
Police investigating a Christmas day bombing in Nashville say they may never know the motive behind the attack, though the FBI named Anthony Quinn Warner, who died in the bombing, as the suspect in the case.
British hospitals are cancelling non-urgent procedures and scrambling to find space for COVID-19 patients as coronavirus cases continue to surge despite tough new restrictions imposed to curb a fast-spreading new variant of the virus.
The EU campaign to vaccinate Europeans against COVID-19 is off to an uneven start in what will be a marathon effort to administer shots to enough of the bloc's 450 million people to defeat the viral pandemic.
A fast-food eatery at Pompeii has been excavated, helping reveal dishes that were popular for the citizens of the ancient Roman city who were partial to eating out.
Alibaba shares slumped nine per cent to their lowest level since June on Monday, as the firm's upsized $10 billion US buyback program failed to ease concerns about a regulatory crackdown on co-founder Jack Ma's e-commerce and financial empire.
One of Saudi Arabia's most prominent women's rights activists was sentenced on Monday to nearly six years in prison under a vague and broadly-worded law aimed at combating terrorism, according to state-linked media.
Virtual influencers can appear cartoonishly fake or strikingly true to life, but always engaging to their audience. For advertisers, it’s proven a tantalizing combination. And amid a pandemic, virtual influencers have been increasingly hard to cast aside as a fad.
With Disney and Warner Bros. making dramatic announcements in 2020 about upcoming releases, Hollywood's focus has shifted to streaming. But movie theatres still have a role to play, industry watchers say.
Sydney, one of the world's first major cities to welcome each New Year with a public countdown featuring a fireworks display over its well-known Opera House, has banned large gatherings that night amid an outbreak of the coronavirus.
A Chinese court handed a four-year jail term on Monday to a citizen-journalist who reported from the central city of Wuhan at the peak of last year's coronavirus outbreak, on grounds of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble," her lawyer said.
