A hate speech debate turned heated in New Zealand's Parliament when Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern suggested the country's opposition leader was a "Karen." The insult, popularized last year by an internet meme, broadly refers to an entitled White woman who is unafraid to use her privilege to make unreasonable demands.
A bloody wave of shootings, arson and other criminal violence has engulfed parts of Port-au-Prince, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes and trapping others within dangerous areas of the Haitian capital, aid agencies say.
For most women in rich countries, getting their period doesn't amount to much more than a minor inconvenience. A few hours of cramps. Mood swings. Hiding a tampon up the sleeve on the way to the office bathroom. Yet for millions across the world, menstruation still remains synonymous with shame, hardship and missing out on life.
The European Union will work to phase out caged animal farming across the bloc, after a petition calling for an end to the practice gathered more than a million signatures.
For the first time in over 15 months, Thailand's popular resort island of Phuket is allowing vaccinated international travelers to enter without quarantine restrictions.
Myanmar freed more than 2,000 detainees on Wednesday, among them journalists and others who the ruling military said had been held on incitement charges for taking part in protests, local media reported.
Zimbabwean finance minister Mthuli Ncube talks about the country's plan to resolve its economic hardship. The World Bank reports the 49% of the country's population lives in poverty.
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim will pay for all the costs needed to rebuild Mexico City's subway overpass-stretch, which left 26 dead after it collapsed last month, according to Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Three years after Barack and Michelle Obama's official portraits were unveiled at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, the paintings have arrived at the Art Institute of Chicago, where the former President and First Lady had their very first date.
The collapse in international tourism due to the coronavirus pandemic could cost the global economy as much as $2.4 trillion this year, as the uneven rollout of vaccines devastates developing countries that are highly dependent on overseas visitors.
Russian President Vladimir Putin put a positive spin on the sanctions that the United States has imposed on his country in recent years on Wednesday. There are, he claimed, positive sides to them.
If classic genres are like roadmaps, the new movie "Zola" -- steered by two exotic dancers who go on a whirlwind weekender in Florida -- is what happens when you turn off the navigation. Directed by Janicza Bravo, "Zola" starts out as an impromptu American road trip and descends into chaos.
IKEA Canada has unveiled a series of colorful couches inspired by different Pride flags, including those representing the transgender, nonbinary and asexual communities.
English football fans celebrated wildly after England beat Germany in their Euro 2020 last-16 match to finally end its decades-long inferiority complex against its old, historic rival. Germany hadn't lost a knockout match to England in a major international competition since the 1966 World Cup final.
When the United Kingdom emerged from one of the world's longest and most stringent coronavirus lockdowns in April, it did so believing that the worst of the pandemic was over.
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It was approaching midnight on June 30, 2020, when news broke that Beijing had promulgated a national security law in Hong Kong, effective immediately.
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