State officials in Nevada are considering emergency measures to deal with a lack of marijuana.
Demand has been strong since recreational use was legalised on...
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been convicted of corruption charges and sentenced to nine-and-a-half years in prison, court documents show.
It...
President Donald Trump has been party to an eye-watering 4,000 lawsuits over the last 30 years, US media say.
And now the mogul turned commander-in-chief has...
Sixteen people are dead in the crash of a Marine Corps airplane in Leflore County, Mississippi, according to Fred Randle, county emergency management director.
Randle...
The judge who sentenced former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to death has been captured and executed by ISIS militants, it is claimed.
Raouf Abdul Rahman,...
The former Northern Ireland footballer Philip Mulryne has been ordained a Roman Catholic priest in the Dominican Order.
Fr Mulryne, who is reported to have...
The Anglican Chaplain for Uganda's Parliament has been advising Christians who give their regular offering in shillings (the local currency) to use dollars and...
US President Donald Trump’s son has admitted meeting a Russian lawyer last year who he says had promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton.
But Donald...
US President Donald Trump has declared the G20 summit in Germany a “wonderful success”, despite his country’s isolated position on climate change.
In a joint...
The International Criminal Court on Thursday rebuked South Africa for not arresting Sudan's president on a genocide warrant when he visited Johannesburg in 2015...
Niger’s army has killed 14 civilians who were mistaken for militants of the Islamist group Boko Haram in the remote southeast, officials say.
The victims,...
President Trump warned Thursday that North Korea could face "some pretty severe" consequences after its defiant test of an intercontinental ballistic missile, but Washington...
The South Sudanese government has called on Tanzania to send Swahili teachers to the country as it introduces the language in school curriculum ahead of its...
Heavy rain and overflowing rivers in southern Japan have forced the evacuation of almost 400,000 people, public broadcaster NHK said on Wednesday.
"Rivers are bursting...
The United States has denied visas to five teenage students from Gambia competing in a prestigious international robotics contest in Washington, the team's leader...
A man has been charged with plotting to assassinate French President Emmanuel Macron on Bastille Day during US President Donald Trump's visit to France,...
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been placed under formal investigation over an alleged European parliament funding scandal.
The allegations were passed to French...
US President Donald Trump has launched an extraordinary attack on a female news anchor's alleged plastic surgery.
He said MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski was "bleeding...
The Vatican treasurer and Australia’s most senior Catholic figure, Cardinal George Pell, has been charged with sex offences in Australia.
The charges relate to alleged...
Lex Haris, CNN’s investigations editor, traveled to a journalism conference in Phoenix last week. In hindsight, his timing was terrible.
While Haris was away, his...
Tanzania has threatened to arrest and expel activists, as well as deregister all non-governmental organisations that campaign for gay rights.
Homosexuality is a criminal offence...
Venezuela’s Supreme Court has been attacked by grenades dropped from a helicopter in what President Nicolás Maduro called a “terrorist attack”.
Footage on social media...
