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Sri Lanka's navy said on Saturday it was holding an abandoned supertanker off its east coast as it continued to work to put out a blaze on the ship.

A toddler was killed while riding in a vehicle along a Louisiana road in a shooting that was condemned by the city's mayor.

Japan's coastguard has halted searching for missing crew members from a cattle ship that capsized in the East China Sea earlier this week due to bad weather from a typhoon, an official at the coastguard said on Saturday.

India's Covid-19 cases jumped from 10 lakh to 20 lakh in 21 days. It took 16 more days to race past 30 lakh and 13 days more to cross the 40-lakh mark.

El Salvador's attorney general on Friday said he plans to investigate allegations that the government of President Nayib Bukele is negotiating with members of a notorious gang to reduce homicides.

Jacob Blake, the 29yearold Black man whose shooting by a white police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, reignited nationwide protests over racism and police brutality, pleaded not guilty on Friday to criminal charges filed prior to the shooting.

The president, who describes himself as the “best friend ever” of India and Indian-Americans in the White House, was responding to a question about the role the three important members of his family are going to play in the 2020 election cycle with respec...

President Donald Trump's economic policies during the coronavirus pandemic has made being a working American life or death work, Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden has said. Ladies and gentlemen, no matter what he (Trump...

A government watchdog says federal regulators lack the ability to verify whether private pilots are eligible for more relaxed medical requirements and whether the looser rule is compromising air safety.

On the campaign trail with President Donald Trump, the pandemic is largely over, the economy is roaring back, and murderous mobs are infiltrating America's suburbs.

Belgian singer and actress Annie Cordy, who recorded several popular hits and was made a baroness by King Albert II, has died, the government announced Friday. She was 92.

Three men have been charged with homicide in the shooting death of an infant who was struck by a stray bullet that went into his family's apartment during a shootout on a Pittsburgh street, authorities announced Friday.

Two men clearing debris in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura have died from heatrelated illness, Louisiana's health department said Friday.

Fifteen more people died from coronavirus in Assam on Friday as 2,891 fresh cases surfaced, taking the number of infections to 1,21,224, state Minister for Health and Family Welfare Himanta Biswa Sarma said. So far, 345 people have died from the infectio...

The exercise is aimed at triggering competition among states to improve business climate in order to attract domestic and global investors.

The United States on Friday blacklisted four individuals for what it said was their help for the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to prevent free and fair parliamentary elections in Venezuela in December, the Treasury said.