Elon Musk's tumultuous $44 billion US bid to buy Twitter is on the verge of collapse after the Tesla CEO sent a letter to Twitter's board saying he is terminating the acquisition.
Under mounting pressure from fellow Democrats to be more forceful in response to the Supreme Court ruling reversing Roe v. Wade, U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order to try to protect access to abortion Friday.
Police imposed a curfew in Sri Lanka's capital and surrounding areas on Friday, a day before a planned protest demanding resignations of the country's president and prime minister because of the economic crisis that has caused severe shortages of essential goods and disrupted people's livelihoods.
Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in heart failure after apparently being shot during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan, NHK public television said Friday.
President Joe Biden on Thursday presented the nation's highest civilian honour, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 17 people, including gymnast Simone Biles and soccer player Megan Rapinoe.
