The Putin government is going after jailed anti-corruption crusader Alexei Navalny every way it can, using the full arsenal of its police, judiciary and propaganda outlets to vilify him ahead of more anti-government protests set for this weekend.
All around New Orleans, thousands of houses are being decorated as Mardi Gras floats because the elaborate parades normally held during the Carnival season leading to Fat Tuesday have been cancelled due to the pandemic.
General Motors has set a goal of making the vast majority of the vehicles it produces electric by 2035, and the entire company carbon neutral, including operations, five years after that.
The British government has started transferring dozens of asylum seekers to hotels to self-isolate after reports that more than 100 people housed at former army barracks in southeast England have tested positive for COVID-19. The move comes after many of those who were staying at the camp said they feared a COVID-19 outbreak.
The South Carolina Senate on Thursday passed a bill that would outlaw almost all abortions in the state, overcoming years of hurdles thanks to Republicans winning new seats in last year's elections.
Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others in her party condemned Republicans after it was revealed they had chosen new congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene for a spot on the House's labour and education committee. Greene has expressed support for views denying school shootings have taken place.
The U.S. economy contracted 3.5 per cent in 2020, the Commerce Department reported Thursday, the worst economic freeze since the end of the Second World War.
The strange saga of GameStop took a new twist on Thursday, as trading brokerage Robinhood put restrictions on trading in the company's shares, a move that's sure to draw the ire of the app's merry band of stock-swapping Redditors.
A near-total ban on abortion has taken effect in Poland and triggered a new round of nationwide protests three months after a top court ruled that the abortion of congenitally damaged fetuses is unconstitutional.
Germany's health minister said there are at least "10 hard weeks" ahead amid difficulties in getting large quantities of vaccines.
Russian authorities on Thursday detained several allies of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and issued warnings to social media giants after tens of thousands of people took to the streets in over 100 Russian cities last weekend to demand his release.
Shares in an obscure video game retailer have gained more than 1,000 per cent in recent weeks as an army of online investors are waging war against Wall Street behemoths they resent for their power, money and influence.
A World Health Organization team emerged from quarantine in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday to start field work in a fact-finding mission on the origins of the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the release of a Pakistani man convicted and later acquitted in the gruesome beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002.
