A Baltimore family is suing a Sesame Street-themed amusement park for $25 million U.S. over claims of racial discrimination, alleging multiple costumed characters ignored a 5-year-old Black girl during a meet-and-greet event last month.
Former Minneapolis police officer J. Alexander Kueng was sentenced Wednesday in a federal court to three years in prison for violating George Floyd's civil rights during the May 2020 killing.
James Lovelock, the environmental scientist whose influential Gaia theory sees the Earth as a living organism gravely imperiled by human activity has died on his 103rd birthday.
A big, pink diamond of 170 carats has been discovered in Angola and is claimed to be the largest such gemstone found in 300 years.
Gangs throughout Haiti's capital and beyond have grown more powerful since last year's assassination of president Jovenel Moïse. Kidnappings have skyrocketed and increasingly violent turf wars have shut down the main roads leading to the country's northern and southern regions.
Shipping companies are not rushing to export millions of tonnes of trapped grain out of Ukraine, despite a breakthrough deal to provide safe corridors through the Black Sea. That is because explosive mines are drifting in the waters, ship owners are assessing the risks and many still have questions over how the deal will unfold.
The drug trial of American basketball star Brittney Griner resumed Wednesday in a Russian court with Griner testifying that a language interpreter provided during her questioning translated only a fraction of what was said.
It was hailed as a post-Cold War collaboration for the good of humanity: two old rivals joining forces to launch the International Space Station more than 20 years ago. Now Russia says it's quitting the ISS and analysts are worried about tensions on Earth spilling over into space.
A strong earthquake left at least two people dead and injured dozens in the northern Philippines on Wednesday, where the temblor set off small landslides and damaged buildings and churches and prompted terrified crowds and hospital patients in the capital to rush outdoors.
