Anti-racism groups and England's Football Association (FA) are denouncing an independent panel's finding that a British soccer manager who used "offensive, racist and Islamophobic" language is "not a conscious racist."
Some of the United Nations' most senior female officials have been meeting Taliban leaders in Kabul to discuss the ban on female aid workers, as Afghanistan battles famine and poverty.
One person was killed and 60 more were injured in a stampede ahead of a soccer match in the Iraqi city of Basra on Thursday, the state news agency INA reported.
Burnout is real -- and it's nothing to be ashamed of. That's the conclusion trailblazing New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern seems to have reached after almost six brutal years in office.
Anheuser-Busch may no longer be the only alcohol brand to advertise at the Super Bowl, but it will still have a major presence — even as rivals pounce on the opportunity, following a 33-year drought.
China may be one step closer to losing its place as the world's most populous country to India after its population shrank for the first time since the 1960s.
Peru is seeing some of its worst political violence in recent decades, but the grievances of protesters are all but new; they reflect a system that has failed to deliver for over twenty years.
French workers are set to take to the streets Thursday to protest radical reforms to the country's pension system that, if implemented, will require most people in France to work two years longer before retirement.
Israel's top court ruled 10-1 on Wednesday that Aryeh Deri, leader of the Shas party and a key ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, should not be allowed to serve as a cabinet minister because of a February 2022 conviction for tax fraud.
US authorities arrested a Russian cryptocurrency executive who allegedly oversaw the exchange of hundreds of millions of dollars with drug traffickers and cybercriminals.
British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe's company INEOS has formally entered the bidding process to buy Premier League soccer club Manchester United, according to The Times on Wednesday.
An American public defender who died this month while celebrating his first wedding anniversary in Mexico "was the victim of a brutal crime," his family said, noting a coroner's liaison told them the case was sent to a local prosecutor "to conduct a possible homicide investigation."
The Airbus A380 entered service nearly two decades ago, but although passengers loved it, it was doomed from the start. Too big and too expensive for airlines to run due to its four engines, it quickly fell out of favor, surpassed by more fuel-efficient twin-engine jets.
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was released by German police on Tuesday evening after being detained earlier in the day at a protest over the expansion of a coal mine in the western village of Lützerath, police confirmed to CNN on Wednesday.
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