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It might not break new ground but the online RPG is catnip for anyone who's been drawn in to an online multiplayer extravaganza I'm back in one of my happy places: loitering in an hours-long queue, twiddling my thumbs, w...

The American envoy, Jeffrey Feltman, was given assurances that seemed to head off a military takeover. Hours later, Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan made his move.

Readers argue against the full decriminalization of sex work. Also: Joe Manchin and Greta Thunberg; a parole in the Brink's case; the value of college.

Jeffrey Burnham, 46, was captured by police Oct. 1 after an 18-hour manhunt.

After a five-year moratorium, the state of Oklahoma botched its third consecutive execution on Thursday when convict John Marion Grant died after convulsing and vomiting all over himself following a lethal injection.

After the Trump administration separated migrant parents from children at the southern border, President Biden pledged to make it up to the families.

A Guantanamo Bay prisoner who went through the brutal U.S. government interrogation program after the 9/11 attacks has described it openly for the first time

A man who lived in a Chicago airport for three months to avoid the COVID-19 crisis at home was found not guilty on trespassing charges, a report said.

Rhonda Carlson, 48, took a plea deal to avoid the death penalty.

Former Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter loses her bid to shed a first-degree manslaughter charge in the shooting death of Daunte Wright earlier this year, as the youth's supporters and loved ones celebrate what woul...

The problem with crying wolf about the weather

The U.S. has taken zero Uyghur refugees for two years, despite both the Trump and Biden Admins condemning China's persecution of the group.

Levels last seen when second wave swept across country in late December and early January Coronavirus - latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Coronavirus infections in England have increased to the same levels ...

Sense of chaos and trepidation, as well as excitement, permeates city ahead of opening of climate summit It isn't raining as Maria Azul flies into Glasgow airport from Buenos Aires, but there are so many clouds in the sk...

South Korean President Moon Jae-in has given Pope Francis a statue of a cross made with barbed wire from the demilitarized zone separating the Koreas

Experts say Home Office risks traumatising refugees by housing them in courthouse turned into hostel Asylum seekers are being housed by the Home Office in a former courthouse turned hostel which promised nights in "an au...

The captain of a British fishing trawler detained in France was ordered to appear before a French court over allegations of illegal fishing, as the war of words between the two countries over post-Brexit fishing rights e...

Heavy downpours in Dumfries and Galloway cause evacuations, school closures and travel disruption Bridges have been washed away and homes flooded in the Scottish Borders after heavy downpours hit Dumfries and Galloway. T...

Care company is suspected of cheating 90-year-old British woman out of her savings Spanish police investigating a care company that allegedly cheated at least one elderly and vulnerable British customer out of her saving...

Devout Roman Catholic President Biden swept into the Vatican early Friday for his first meeting with Pope Francis since taking office.

An American woman convicted of helping to kill her mother on Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali has walked free from prison

Federal authorities say a Georgia man has pleaded guilty to illegally obtaining a coronavirus relief loan and using more than $57,000 of the money to buy a collectable Pokemon card