Former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani almost certainly did not flee Kabul as it fell to the Taliban with millions of dollars in stolen cash, a US government watchdog’s report said Monday.

New York's governor raised the age for buying a semiautomatic rifle from 18 to 21 Monday as she tightened gun laws following the racist massacre at a supermarket in Buffalo.

A shooting near a Tennessee nightclub early Sunday led to three deaths and 14 people suffering gunshot wounds and other injuries, police said.

Gunfire killed three people and wounded at least 11 others in a popular downtown Philadelphia entertainment district late Saturday night, authorities said.

At least three people were killed and more than a dozen injured early yesterday in a Tennessee city after gunfire erupted and fleeing vehicles struck bystanders, police said.

Three people were killed and 11 others wounded late Saturday in the US city of Philadelphia after multiple shooters opened fire into a crowd on a busy street, police said.

Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in May were 50 percent higher than during the pre-industrial era, reaching levels not seen on Earth for about four million years, the main US climate agency said on Friday.

The death toll in an explosion in a coal mine in northeastern Colombia has risen to seven, while eight workers remain unaccounted for, the National Mining Agency (ANM) said yesterday.

An escaped murderer suspected of killing five people while on the run was gunned down by Texas police, bringing an end to a three-week-long manhunt after the fugitive’s dramatic escape from a prison bus.

Ohio is set to enact a law that allows teachers and other staff to be armed with guns in schools once they have completed up to 24 hours of initial training.

The US yesterday urged Bangladesh to adopt a transparent regulatory environment and implement reforms in the labour sector to secure foreign investments.

The famous snow-capped peaks of the Alps are fading fast and being replaced by vegetation cover -- a process called “greening” that is expected to accelerate climate change, a study said Thursday.

US President Joe Biden will visit Saudi Arabia this month, reports said Thursday, a stark reversal for a leader who once called for the kingdom to be made a pariah.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a “super bad feeling” about the economy and needs to cut about 10 percent of jobs at the electric carmaker, he said in an email to executives seen by Reuters.

The world must cease its “senseless and suicidal war against nature”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said, singling out developed nations and their gluttonous use of the planet’s resources.

California regulators on Thursday gave a robotic taxi service the green light to begin charging passengers for driverless rides in San Francisco, a first in the state.

Amber Heard was “demonized” by ex-husband Johnny Depp’s legal team and excoriated on social media during a sensational defamation trial that ended with a jury ordering her to pay Depp $15 million, Heard’s lawyer said Thursday.

Republicans in the US House of Representatives on Thursday objected to a Democratic attempt to advance new limits on gun purchases as one Rebpublican legislator pulled out his handguns at a hearing to complain that they could be banned.

At least two people were wounded when multiple gunshots were fired at people attending a funeral in the US state of Wisconsin on Thursday, police said.

Actor Johnny Depp won more than $10 million in damages on Wednesday, achieving a near-total victory in a defamation suit against ex-wife Amber Heard to cap a six-week trial featuring graphic testimony about the stars’ soured relationship.