Headline News

Ms Johnson, who helped launch the first American into orbit, was portrayed in the film Hidden Figures.

NBA great Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna will be honored at a public memorial service Monday.

Police say a California man drove a Jeep off a parking garage and into a McDonald's. Two people dove out of the car before it crashed.       

Chinese leaders says virus is 'big test' for country as South Korean cases jump over 760. Follow latest news 2.56am GMT As I mentioned earlier in the blog, we are still waiting for Monday's announcement of cases of the v...

South Korea reported 161 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of infected patients in the country to 763, health authorities said on Monday, a day after the government raised its infectious disease ale...

Malaysia's Mahathir Mohamad unexpectedly resigned as prime minister on Monday, leaving the Southeast Asian nation in political turmoil, but he agreed to a request from the country's king to stay on as interim premier unt...

Quadrennial questions It's not often a leap year comes around. About once every four years, in fact. To celebrate this year's bonus day, which falls on Saturday, here are three puzzles about dates and births.

United Airlines had to swap out Boeing 777 aircraft for a Saturday flight from Newark to Hawaii, resulting in a reduction of business class seats.

NASA mathematician, Katherine Johnson, who helped pave the way for the first American astronaut to successfully orbit the Earth, died Monday morning at the age of 101.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a major religious rights dispute involving the city of Philadelphia's refusal to place children for foster care with a Catholic agency that bars same-sex couples from servi...

Spat emerged after Philip Rutnam raised complaints about alleged bullying of staff Priti Patel, the home secretary, has been warned by No 10 to cool down the row with her permanent secretary, Philip Rutnam, after a bitte...

The lights dimmed. The music thumped. And the models walked the runway. But there was one thing missing from

Two storm systems moving out of the West will combine into a Winter Storm in the middle of the country and could bring the biggest snowstorm of the season.

Harvard University epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch is predicting the coronavirus "will ultimately not be containable" and, within a year, will infect somewhere between 40 and 70 percent of humanity, The Atlantic reports. Bu...

• A beef-free menu for Trump in India

U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson has rejected a request from Roger Stone that she recuse herself from his criminal case. Stone, a longtime friend and adviser of President Trump, was found guilty of lying to C...

Former NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik says he was left stunned after President Trump called himlast week to say he granted him a full pardon. “It was pretty surprising,” Kerik told John Catsimatidis during an intervi...

The death of one Hong Kong resident in the mainland Chinese city heightened fears for thousands of others stuck in the center of the coronavirus outbreak.

Iraq has shut its Safwan border crossing with Kuwait to travellers and trade at Kuwait's request, the local mayor told Reuters on Monday without providing a reason, amid fears over the spread of coronavirus.

Police protests began this month after a half-dozen officers were fired over their attempt to unionize

A man was killed on Saturday night after being hit by a Mardi Gras float in New Orleans. Police said the victim appeared to fall between two sections of a large tandem float at the Krewe of Endymion. Just days earlier, a...

The Israeli military and Palestinian militants in Gaza exchanged fire on Sunday, hours after a graphic video showing an Israeli army bulldozer scraping the body of a dead man off the ground went viral.