The Washington Redskins are no more. The National Football League franchise has finally agreed to drop its racist team name.
The NFL team was one of three North American sports franchises that announced they were reassessing their names in the wake of worldwide protests about systemic racism — and pressure...
Scotland’s health secretary Jeanne Freeman has said two more cases of coronavirus have been confirmed, bringing the total to three in Scotland.
The total number across the UK now stands at 53.
Freeman told the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland programme, “I can confirm that overnight we were informed of two more...
Auburn University senior gymnast Samantha Cerio suffered some serious injuries at the NCAA Regional Semifinal in Baton Rouge on Friday.
The senior dislocated both of her knees and broke both legs during a floor routine, the Times-Picayune reported.
“It was pretty tough to watch,” Auburn’s coach Jeff Graba said. “She’s a...
The two children of a former Saudi intelligence officer, who has been lying low abroad since the rise of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to power, “have disappeared” since their detention in March, their brother says.
The disappearance of Omar and Sarah, son and daughter of Saad al-Jabri — who...
More than 100 years after a young soldier from Newfoundland was killed on a battlefield in Belgium, the Canadian military has officially confirmed his identity through genetic analysis of remains unearthed in 2016.
When he enlisted in the Newfoundland Regiment on Aug. 14, 1916, John Lambert of St. John's lied...
Somalia has declared a national emergency as large swarms of locusts spread across east Africa.
The country's Ministry of Agriculture said the insects, which consume large amounts of vegetation, posed "a major threat to Somalia's fragile food security situation".
There are fears that the situation may not be brought under control...
An Arizona woman allegedly shot an ACE Hardware employee on Saturday while opening fire on a suspected shoplifter who was fleeing the store.
Phoenix police said Nya Reyes, 45, accidentally shot the male worker as he tried to apprehend the shoplifting suspect outside of the store. The suspect fled the...
The social media conversation over the climate crisis is being reshaped by an army of automated Twitter bots, with a new analysis finding that a quarter of all tweets about climate on an average day are produced by bots, the Guardian can reveal.
The stunning levels of Twitter bot activity...
