Nineteen young children and two adults have died in a shooting at a primary school in south Texas.
The gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School - which teaches children aged seven...
Fourteen students and a teacher are dead after a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, media reports say.
Governor Greg Abbott disclosed that the 18-year-old suspect, a student...
J.M. Smucker is recalling certain types of Jif peanut butter in the US because of a potential salmonella contamination.
The company said that the peanut butter was sold nationwide and the recall...
More than 80 cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in at least 12 countries.
The World Health Organization has said another 50 suspected cases are being investigated - without naming any countries...
Cases of monkeypox are being investigated in several European countries as well as the US, Canada and Australia, according to health authorities and local media reports.
The new cases were reported in...
McDonald's has said it will permanently leave Russia after more than 30 years and has started to sell its restaurants.
The move comes after it temporarily closed its 850 outlets in March.
The...
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has lambasted health officials and ordered the army to help distribute medicine, as a wave of Covid cases sweeps through the country.
More than a million people...
Witnesses to a racially-motivated attack at a New York state supermarket have been describing the horrific moment an 18-year-old white man pulled out a gun and began a shooting spree that...
In Melania Trump's first interview since leaving the White House, the former first lady hinted that there is a chance she could live there again as former President Donald Trump teases...
One of our planet's most stunning sights is coming to the skies - a super blood Moon.
In the year's only full lunar eclipse, Earth will come between the Sun and the...
Ten people have been killed in a shooting in New York state that is being investigated as a racially-motivated hate crime.
An 18-year-old man was detained after a stand-off at the scene...
At least 11 suspected migrants have died after their boat capsized near the US territory of Puerto Rico.
The US Coast Guard said there were 38 survivors so far - mostly from...
Ukraine has started its first war crimes trial since the beginning of Russia's invasion, with a 21-year-old soldier appearing in the dock accused of killing an unarmed civilian.
Vadim Shishimarin appeared at...
A couple in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand are suing their only son and his wife for not giving them a grandchild after six years of marriage.
Sanjeev and Sadhana Prasad,...
The US has passed more than one million Covid-related deaths, says the White House.
President Joe Biden said the country was marking "a tragic milestone" and each death was "an irreplaceable loss".
It's...
Sri Lanka's outgoing Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa was rescued in a pre-dawn military operation Tuesday, hours after his resignation, as violent clashes between pro and anti-government protesters left several dead and...
Major US pharmacies have restricted sales of baby formula in response to a worsening shortage of the special milk.
CVS and Walgreens are among the big chains to have imposed limits in...
A former Philadelphia police officer has been charged with murder for fatally shooting a 12-year-old boy in the head following a foot chase in early March.
Authorities say that Edsaul Mendoza, 26,...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres visited sites of suspected war crimes in Ukraine on Thursday, where he condemned the “evil” acts committed against civilians and urged criminal accountability.
The UN chief’s visit to...
Eleven mainly European countries have now reported salmonella food poisoning, linked to popular “Kinder” chocolate products produced in Belgium, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.
The World Health Organization...
