The U.K. recorded the highest number of confirmed new COVID-19 infections Wednesday since the pandemic began. England's chief medical officer warned the situation is likely to get worse as the omicron variant...
Venezuelan devotees of St. John the Baptist celebrated the declaration of their religious festival as an "intangible cultural heritage of humanity" by the U.N. cultural agency on Wednesday.
Faith...
Germany’s foreign minister said on Wednesday that her country is expelling two Russian diplomats after a court concluded that Moscow was behind the killing of a Chechen man in Berlin two years ago. Foreign...
The daughter of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny received the European Union's top human rights prize on her father's behalf on Wednesday.
Navalny, who narrowly survived a poisoning...
The luxury fashion house Chanel has chosen Leena Nair to be its new CEO. Nair, 52, is an industry outsider from India and longtime executive at Unilever.
The news made a huge splash on Wednesday in India where...
President Joe Biden took a walking tour through Western Kentucky, to see firsthand the devastation caused by last week's tornadoes that tore through Kentucky and seven other states, killing at least 88 people...
Nassau County Police Chief of Detectives Keechant Sewell has been named New York City's next police commissioner.
Sewell will be the first woman to lead the nation's largest police force. She will...
A powerful storm charged south through California on Tuesday, drenching the drought-stricken state with desperately needed rain but also triggering rescue efforts on a swollen river and mandatory evacuations due...
Australia's most populous state recorded one death from COVID-19 and 1,360 new infections on Wednesday. That was the highest daily caseload since September 11.
Among the new cases in New South Wales, 25...
in the Moscow region, a 90-year-old spruce has been selected to be Russia's main Christmas tree. Each year, a tree is selected among dozens of spruces to decorate Sobornaya Square in the Kremlin, in Russia...