
A Saudi Arabian court has commuted the death sentences of five of the eight people convicted for the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in a "rogue operation" as his family has pardoned them, reports said on Monday....

Amid a dangerous heatwave in western US, the temperature in Woodland Hills hit a record 49.44 degrees Celsius, the highest ever recorded in Los Angeles County....

Emergency was declared in Fresno, Madera and Mariposa counties on Sunday due to the Creek Fire, which exploded to 73,278 acres in 30 hours with 0 per cent containment so far, reports Xinhua news agency....

Hindus want schools in New Hyde Park-Garden City Park (NHP-GCP) School District in New York to stay closed on Diwali; the most popular of their festivals; starting 2021. They are thus urging Jennifer Kerrane and Dr. Jennifer Morrison, Board President and Superintendent respectively of NHP-GCP School District headq...
There have been 131,495 cases of COVID-19 in Canada, including 9,143 deaths, with the trend of increased cases among younger people, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) said....

US equities decreased in the past week as investors rotated about of the tech sector while digesting a slew of key economic data....

President Donald Trump has refused to condemn Russia over the poisoning of opposition figure Alexei Navalny, saying he has not seen proof. ...

Medical journal The Lancet's chief editor has said that US President Donald Trump's statement that a Covid-19 vaccine could be delivered by the end of October is "simply wrong."...

US President Donald Trump said he will reverse Pentagon's decision to cut funding to US military's independent newspaper, Stars and Stripes, and cease its publication....

US President Donald Trump has asserted that Washington was talking to India and China on resolving "a very nasty situation" in the Ladakh region, but equivocated on whether Beijing was a bully....