Four people, including a child, were shot and killed on Wednesday evening at an office building in Southern California, police said.
Egyptian authorities decided on Sunday that more tugboats will be needed to free a mammoth container ship blocking the Suez Canal, a shipping agency said, dashing earlier hopes that the vital global trade route could be clear by the end of the weekend.
Over 81 per cent of employees in the Asia Pacific and Japan are prepared for long-term remote work but express concern such as the blurring of boundaries between work and personal lives, according to a new study by Dell Technologies.
A gunman killed at least 10 people including a police officer at a grocery store in Colorado on Monday, police said, in the latest shooting to hit the western state – scene of two of the most infamous US mass murders.
A gunman killed multiple people including a police officer at a grocery store in Colorado on Monday, police said, in the latest shooting to hit the western state – scene of two of the most infamous US mass murders.
A man who was unhappy with the treatment he had received at a Minnesota health clinic opened fire inside the facility Tuesday and wounded at least five people, authorities said.
The UN Security Council on Tuesday failed to agree on a joint declaration on war-torn Syria, capping a day of negotiations in which the organization's special envoy to the country called to jump-start the deadlocked peace process.
It was "most likely" to have come from an intermediary species, he said, before backing up China's position that there was no evidence of "large outbreaks in Wuhan" before December when the first official cases have been recorded.
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been detained by the military along with President Win Myint, a spokesman for the ruling National League for Democracy said on Monday.
Officials and experts have urged China and the United States to reshape their damaged relationship and called on the new US administration to employ positive policies to refresh ties with Beijing to benefit both nations and the world.
Divers pulled body parts, wreckage and clothing from waters off Indonesia's capital Jakarta yesterday, as the military located a signal it hoped would lead to the wreckage of a jet that crashed with 62 people on board.
An Indonesian budget airline jet is "suspected" to have crashed into the sea just minutes after the Boeing 737 lost contact with air traffic control on Saturday, the country's national search and rescue agency said.
Donald Trump's supporters stormed a session of Congress held on Wednesday to certify Joe Biden's election win, triggering unprecedented chaos and violence at the heart of American democracy and accusations the president was attempting a coup.
The world watched in shock and horror on Wednesday as a mob of Donald Trump supporters, encouraged by the president, stormed the US Capitol in a bid to thwart lawmakers from their constitutional duty.
Nearly 56 million people in England will return to a full coronavirus lockdown, possibly until mid-February, to try to cut spiralling infection rates, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday.
Three police officers who investigated the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants in the United Kingdom have been honoured by Her Majesty the Queen.
With more than 1.7 million people dead and 82 million infected around the globe since last New Year’s Eve - yet hope that new vaccines can help tame the pandemic - this year’s end is like none other in memory.
The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) has selected the Top 10 events that shaped the world in 2020.