Seven pro-democracy advocates were convicted Thursday for organizing and participating in an unlawful assembly during massive anti-government protests in 2019, as Hong Kong continues its crackdown on dissent.
A Canadian warship sailed through sensitive waters near China this week amid heightened tensions between the two countries.
A former Minneapolis convenience store cashier who claimed George Floyd gave him a counterfeit $20 bill testified on Wednesday he felt "disbelief and guilt" as he later watched the 46-year-old Black man being pinned to the ground by police.
A man was arrested on charges including felony assault as a hate crime after an Asian American woman was attacked near New York City's Times Square, police said early Wednesday.
The famous pink cherry blossoms of Kyoto reached full bloom this year on March 26, the earliest date in the 12 centuries since records began, according to a Japanese university.
U.S. President Joe Biden is to travel to Pittsburgh today to unveil his $2-trillion US plan to re-engineer America's infrastructure.
A college science professor and an aerospace data analyst were named on Tuesday to round out a four-member crew for a SpaceX launch into orbit that's planned for later this year and billed as the first all-civilian space flight in history.
In a study of 2,260 U.S. volunteers ages 12 to 15, preliminary data showed there were no cases of COVID-19 among fully vaccinated adolescents compared to 18 among those given a placebo, Pfizer reported in a press release on Wednesday.
French President Emmanuel Macron scheduled a televised address to the nation for Wednesday night, a possible harbinger of tighter restrictions to combat surging coronavirus hospitalizations.
