The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a woman from obtaining an emergency abortion. Kate Cox, 31, sought court authorisation for the abortion because her… Read More »Texas court blocks woman from emergency abortion
A salmonella outbreak linked to pre-cut cantaloupe melon has killed eight people in the US and Canada. In the US, where three people died, at… Read More »Eight people die from salmonella linked to cut cantaloupe
Hunter Biden has been criminally charged for tax-related offences in California, as a federal investigation into his financial conduct intensifies. The president’s son has been… Read More »Biden’s son charged with evading tax – and spending cash on drugs, escorts and exotic cars
McDonald’s is testing a coffee shop-style restaurant that puts it in competition with the likes of Starbucks. It’s opening the first CosMc’s in Illinois this… Read More »McDonald’s to test new coffee shop-style stores
Juanita Castro, the younger sister of Cuban rulers Fidel and Raul Castro, who was a CIA informer and outspoken critic against their communist government, has… Read More »Fidel Castro’s sister, who fled Cuba and worked with CIA, dies aged 90
A Texas woman who is 20-weeks pregnant and whose foetus has been diagnosed with a fatal condition has asked a court to allow her to… Read More »Texas woman asks court to let her have an abortion
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has been named the world’s most powerful woman for the second year in a row. The German politician,… Read More »The world’s most powerful woman named
A man who featured in the hit podcast ‘S-Town’ has been shot and killed by police during a stand-off in Alabama, authorities say. Tyler Goodson,… Read More »Man who featured on S-Town podcast shot dead in stand-off with police
A YouTuber who posted a video of himself deliberately crashing his small plane has been jailed for six months. Trevor Daniel Jacob, 30, a pilot… Read More »YouTuber who deliberately crashed plane jailed
Four people, including two children, have been killed by a relative in New York, according to police. Those stabbed to death included a 12-year-old boy,… Read More »Knifeman kills four members of his extended family, including two children, say New York police