Derogatory comments about women made earlier in the week by Yoshiro Mori, the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee and a former prime minister, could force him to resign.
For those who have been working for more than two years to free Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor from detention in China, the new U.S. administration brings with it the hope of some new momentum.
A white Ohio police officer was indicted Wednesday on murder charges in the December shooting death of 47-year-old Andre Hill, a Black man.
People who for years believed in the wide-ranging QAnon conspiracy theory now feel betrayed and confused, according to an expert on extremist beliefs at Cornell University. And many are seeking a way out.
President Joe Biden's cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline has become an early talking point against him from domestic critics of his administration — and even some allies.
The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday dropped its discrimination lawsuit against Yale University that had alleged the university was illegally discriminating against Asian American and white applicants.
A Paris court has ruled that the French state failed to take sufficient action to fight climate change in a case brought by a group of non-governmental organizations.
Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline says it will work with German biopharmaceutical company CureVac to develop new vaccines targeting emerging variants of coronavirus. The announcement comes amid concerns that some mutations are making the virus harder to combat COVID-19.
A coalition of 180 rights group on Wednesday called for a boycott of next year's Beijing Winter Olympics tied to reported human rights abuses against ethnic minorities in China.
U.S. President Joe Biden panned a Republican alternative to his $1.9-trillion COVID rescue plan as insufficient as Senate Democrats pushed ahead, voting to launch a process that could approve his sweeping rescue package on their own if Republicans refuse to support it.
Britain's health minister on Wednesday defended the country's vaccine rollout strategy after skepticism emerged in Europe, saying the science supported a decision to give the shot developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca to all age groups.
Former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi agreed Wednesday to try to form a non-political government to steer Italy through the coronavirus pandemic after last-ditch negotiations among political parties failed to produce a viable governing coalition.
Myanmar police have filed charges against ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi for illegally importing communications equipment and she will be detained until Feb. 15 for the investigations, according to a police document.
Tokyo organizers and the IOC on Wednesday began explaining in public just how they hope to do it, rolling out "Playbooks" to detail the ways that 15,400 athletes will enter Japan — and exit Japan — with the Olympics opening on July 23 and the Paralympics a month later.
Even as civilian politicians passed laws and Myanmar was held up as an imperfect but inspiring example of peaceful transition to democracy, its military generals never gave up power.
