The Swedish parliament has passed a law lowering the age required for people to legally change their gender from 18 to 16
April 17, 2024
Milan’s La Scala, one of the world’s most prestigious and historic opera houses, has named Fortunato Ortombina as its new director
April 17, 2024
Hugh Grant says he received “an enormous sum of money” to settle a lawsuit accusing the publisher of The Sun tabloid of unlawfully tapping his phone, bugging his car and breaking into his home to snoop on him
April 17, 2024
Tesla will ask shareholders to reinstate the compensation package for CEO Elon Musk that was rejected by a judge in Delaware this year and to move the electric carmaker’s corporate home from Delaware to Texas
April 17, 2024
The U.N. population fund says in a new study that an African woman is roughly 130 times more likely to die from pregnancy and childbirth complications than a woman in Europe or North America
April 17, 2024
Strikes called by Greece’s largest labor union have halted ferries and public transport services in Athens and other cities
April 17, 2024
A gathering of far-right politicians and supporters has resumed, a day after police shut the event down citing concerns about public order
April 17, 2024
Inflation in the U.K. fell to its lowest level in two and a half years in March after a further easing in food prices
April 17, 2024
Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest
April 17, 2024
Former Florida Sen. Bob Graham, who chaired the Intelligence Committee following the 2001 terrorist attacks and opposed the Iraq invasion, has died
April 17, 2024
Alabama voters have cast their ballots to decide party nominees for the state’s 2nd Congressional District
April 16, 2024
Voting has begun across the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific nation’s first general election since the government switched diplomatic allegiances from Taiwan to Beijing and struck a secret security pact that has raised fears of the Chinese navy gaining a foothold in the region
April 17, 2024
A voting technology company targeted by bogus fraud claims related to the 2020 presidential election has settled a defamation lawsuit against a conservative news outlet
April 17, 2024
A portrait of Winston Churchill by an artist whose work the British leader loathed is going up for auction
April 16, 2024
National Public Radio has reportedly suspended a veteran editor who wrote an essay for an outside outlet that criticized his employer for what he says is an unquestioned liberal point of view
April 16, 2024
A Chicago woman accused of luring a pregnant teenager to her home and cutting her baby from her womb with a butcher knife nearly five years ago has been sentenced to 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to murder
April 16, 2024
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is imposing higher taxes on the wealthiest Canadians as part of the federal government
April 16, 2024
Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán now claims he can’t get phone calls or visits in the maximum security U.S. prison where the once most powerful Mexican drug lord is serving a life sentence
April 16, 2024
An Ohio man who authorities say fatally shot an Uber driver he thought was trying to rob him after scam phone calls deceived them both has been indicted on a murder charge
April 16, 2024
On the eve of a vote on union representation at Volkswagen’s Tennessee factory, Gov. Bill Lee and some other southern governors are telling workers that voting for a union will put jobs in jeopardy
April 16, 2024
Attorney General Merrick Garland has told lawmakers President Joe Biden has shown no signs of cognitive impairment while defending Biden's ability to serve as commander in chief
April 16, 2024
Prosecutors plan to announce charges Tuesday in an investigation of the former leader of the Michigan House
April 16, 2024
Microsoft is investing $1.5 billion in a technology firm based in the United Arab Emirates and overseen by the country’s powerful national security adviser
April 16, 2024
A federal appeals court has overturned a West Virginia transgender sports ban, finding that the law violates Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools
April 16, 2024
The Supreme Court has sided with a decorated veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in a protracted fight with the government over 12 months of G
April 16, 2024
Deadly flooding in Central Europe made twice as likely by climate change
Australia inflation slows to 3-yr low in Aug, core still above target
China central bank cuts medium-term loan rate
Hong Kong editors who face prison in sedition case told court about journalistic ideals
South Korea fin minister prioritises demand recovery over household debt
Astros overcome terrible start to clinch 4th straight AL West title with win over Mariners
Baltimore Orioles clinch playoff berth for 2nd straight season
Harris and Schwellenbach shine as Braves down Mets 5-1 in opener of pivotal series