Aspiring top dogs (and their owners) will have to wait for the annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show this year, the organization says, pointing to surging COVID-19 cases in New York as the reason for the postponement.
A U.S. jury reached a guilty verdict on five of six charges in the trial of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who was accused of helping late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenaged girls.
China is urging the United States to protect a Chinese space station and its three-member crew after Beijing complained that satellites launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX nearly struck the station.
Four of the five people killed in a deadly shooting rampage in Denver were attacked at tattoo shops, raising questions about why they were targeted. Two others were wounded, including a police officer who shot and killed the suspected shooter after being hit.
Relatives of a 14-year-old girl who was killed last week by Los Angeles police while shopping for Christmas clothes say the family moved from Chile to get away from violence and injustice.
Sudanese authorities said Wednesday rescue workers retrieved at least 31 bodies from a collapsed gold mine in West Kordofan province.
A bird flu outbreak in northern Israel has killed at least 5,200 migratory cranes and forced farmers to slaughter hundreds of thousands of chickens
A court in Moscow on Wednesday granted a request to shut down another prominent human rights organization amid a sweeping crackdown on Russian rights groups, independent media and opposition supporters.
Daily COVID-19 infections have hit record highs in the United States, swathes of Europe and Australia as the new Omicron variant of the virus races out of control, keeping workers at home and overwhelming testing centres.
