Under pressure from U.S. auto safety regulators, Tesla has agreed to stop allowing video games to be played on centre touch screens while its vehicles are moving.
Jurors on Thursday convicted former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter of two manslaughter charges in the killing of Daunte Wright, a Black motorist she shot during an April traffic stop after she said she confused her gun for her Taser.
Author and essayist Joan Didion, whose precise social and personal commentary in such classics as The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking made her a uniquely clear-eyed critic of turbulent times, has died. She was 87.
The Oscar-nominated actor has acknowledged sleeping with students of an acting school he previously ran, saying he struggled with sex addiction and has been working to improve his behaviour in recent years.
Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the West on Thursday to move quickly to meet Russia's demand for security guarantees precluding NATO's expansion to Ukraine and the deployment of the military alliance's weapons there.
Two new British studies provide some early hints that the Omicron variant of the coronavirus may be milder than the Delta version.
China is redoubling efforts to control new virus outbreaks with a lockdown of the 13 million residents of the northern city of Xi'an following a spike in coronavirus cases.
