After making a promise on Twitter, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sold about 900,000 shares of the electric car company's stock, netting over $1.1 billion US that will go toward paying tax obligations for st...

One of the three white men standing trial for the death of Ahmaud Arbery said they had the 25-year-old Black man "trapped like a rat" before he was fatally shot, a police investigator testified Wednes...

A SpaceX rocket carried four astronauts into orbit Wednesday night, including the 600th person to reach space in 60 years.

The German government on Wednesday accused Belarus of "state-run smuggling and trafficking" of human lives by luring desperate migrants to the Polish border — the edge of the European Union — wher...

U.S. leaders, including President Joe Biden and former president Barack Obama, have accused China of not pulling its weight at the UN climate summit. Long-time China watchers say such finger-pointing ...

A U.S. judge on Wednesday approved a $626 million US settlement for Flint. Mich., residents and others who were exposed to lead-contaminated water. The state was accused of repeatedly overlooking the ...

A former mixed martial artist filmed punching a police officer during the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol received a 41-month prison sentence on Wednesday, the stiffest punishment yet in the ...

While agriculture is a major source of emissions around the globe, the sector is not a point of emphasis at the UN climate summit. Critics are calling for that to change.

French soccer midfielder Aminata Diallo has been taken into police custody following an attack on her teammate, Kheira Hamraoui, last week, prosecutors said Wednesday. The 26-year-old midfielder for P...

The U.S. cost of living went up at its fastest annual pace in more than 30 years in October, new figures showed Wednesday, as the price of just about everything is increasing at a much faster pace tha...

The prosecutor in Kyle Rittenhouse's homicide trial attempted to poke holes in the accused's testimony on Wednesday, in which Rittenhouse described fatally shooting two people and wounding another...

NASA on Tuesday delayed putting astronauts back on the moon until 2025 at the earliest, missing the deadline set by the Trump administration.

The World Health Organization reported Wednesday that coronavirus deaths rose by 10 per cent in Europe in the past week, making it the only world region where both COVID-19 cases and deaths are stead...

A U.S. federal judge rejected former president Donald Trump's request to block the release of documents to the House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

The British hosts of the UN climate summit in Glasgow have proposed that countries raise their ambitions to slash greenhouse gas emissions by the end of 2022 in a draft political decision that nations...

Ethiopian authorities have detained more than 70 drivers working with the United Nations, an internal UN email seen by Reuters on Wednesday said.

The first man killed by Kyle Rittenhouse on the streets of Kenosha, Wis., was shot at a range of just a few feet and had soot injuries that could indicate he had his hand over the barrel of Rittenhous...

The conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region has spread through the north of the country at the cost of thousands of lives amid widespread reports of atrocities committed by all factions.

Hundreds of migrants shivered in freezing temperatures and huddled around campfires on the Belarusian border with Poland on Tuesday in front of razor-wire fences and lines of Polish border guards bloc...

The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a $465-million US opioid ruling against drugmaker Johnson & Johnson, finding that a lower court wrongly interpreted the state's public nuisance law in...