The University of Michigan said it would pay $490 million to 1,050 people to resolve claims of sexual assault against a former sports doctor, in a settlement spanning decades and involving mostly male athletes as victims.

President Joe Biden said Wednesday he thinks Russia will invade Ukraine and warned President Vladimir Putin that his country would pay a “dear price” in lives lost and a possible cutoff from the global banking system if it does.

Popular children's tune, "Baby Shark Dance" has made it to the Guinness World Records as the most-viewed YouTube video of all time.

Three Indian naval personnel were killed in an explosion on one of the country’s oldest destroyers at a naval dockyard in Mumbai, authorities said. The blast

A Russia-led military contingent completed its withdrawal from Kazakhstan as the country lifted a state of emergency yesterday after unprecedented unrest in

Tonga finished removing a thick coat of ash from an international runway yesterday after days of painstaking effort, clearing the way for desperately needed

The past seven years have been the hottest on record, the United Nations confirmed yesterday, adding that 2021 temperatures remained high despite the

More than 100 millionaires made an unusual plea yesterday: “Tax us now”. 

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, fighting to save his premiership amid a storm over a series of lockdown parties in Downing Street, yesterday told parliament that he would not resign. 

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday said that Russia could launch a new attack on Ukraine at “very short notice” as he met the country’s president on the first leg of a new diplomatic push to avert war. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he is open to mending Turkey's frayed ties with Israel following a reported drop in US support for a controversial Mediterranean gas pipeline.

Auction house Sotheby’s Dubai has unveiled a diamond that’s literally from out of this world.

Southwest Airlines Co was sued for USD 10 million yesterday by a 68-year-old Florida woman who said the carrier ejected her from a flight because she periodically needed to remove her mask to drink water.

Moscow yesterday rejected new talks on Ukraine unless the West responds to its demands, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken prepared to fly to Kyiv in a show of support amid fears of a Russian invasion.

One of World War II’s most enduring mysteries may have been solved after a cold-case investigation identified a Jewish notary as the prime suspect in the betrayal of diarist Anne Frank and her family. 

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson lied to parliament when he claimed he did not know of his staff’s plans to hold a drinks party on May 20, 2020 during lockdown, his former aide Dominic Cummings has said. 

Right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik made a Nazi salute and held up racist messages yesterday as he asked for parole, a request widely expected to be denied just 10 years after carrying out Norway’s deadliest peacetime attack.

Indonesia’s parliament has approved a bill to relocate the nation’s capital from Jakarta to a jungled area of Kalimantan on Borneo island, the planning minister said yesterday. 

Australia on Tuesday suffered its deadliest day of the pandemic as a fast-moving Omicron outbreak continued to push up hospitalisation rates to record levels, even as daily infections eased slightly.

Joe Biden’s long arc in public life has always had one final ambition: to sit behind the Resolute Desk of the Oval Office. Takeaways from The Associated Press’ White House team on Biden’s first year as president: