An Iranian teenaged girl is in critical condition in hospital, two prominent rights activists told Reuters on Wednesday, after falling into a coma following what they said was a confrontation with agents in the Tehran metro for violating the hijab law.
Olympic gold medalist Susan Francia is coming to terms with the fact that she's no longer the most famous person in her family. That's because the retired U.S. rower's mother, biochemist Katalin Karikó, just won a Nobel Prize for her groundbreaking work that led to the development of COVID-19 vaccines.
The judge overseeing Donald Trump's civil fraud trial pounded his fists in frustration with the former U.S. president's lawyers on Wednesday for what he described as redundant and "ridiculous" cross-examination of a witness.
A court in Moscow on Wednesday handed Marina Ovsyannikova, a former state TV journalist, a 8½-year prison term in absentia for protesting Russia's war in Ukraine.
The Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to three U.S.-based scientists for the "discovery and synthesis of quantum dots." Sweden's public broadcaster SVT said they received a press release with the names of the winners hours before the official announcement.
Wales, one of four countries that make up the United Kingdom, has become the first to drop the speed limit from 30 mph to 20 mph, or roughly 32 km/h, in most built-up areas to improve safety — leading to an intense backlash from critics, who say traffic is moving at a snail's pace.
