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In a situation familiar to parents worldwide, the leader's three-year-old daughter Neve had decided everything, even the affairs of state could wait.

Last week, US President Joe Biden criticised the decision of President Xi Jinping not to attend the Glasgow summit, accusing China of walking away.

A fragrance company's lawsuit against rapper JayZ over breach of contract claims, and his subsequent countersuit against the company, were both rejected Wednesday with a jury finding that neither side had proven its claims and awarding no damages.

A Maryland high school English teacher who has worked to open up college education for her students has won the $1 million Global Teacher Prize, the Varkey Foundation announced Wednesday.

The latest team of astronauts bound for the International Space Station, three from NASA and a German crewmate, suited up for a planned liftoff atop a SpaceX rocket on Wednesday, despite rain and clouds at the Florida launch site that forecasters predicte...

A white Kansas City, Missouri, detective on trial for killing a Black man two years ago testified Wednesday that he believed his actions saved the life of his partner.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, absent from public life for nearly two weeks with little word from his office on his whereabouts, defended his handling of the situation and said Wednesday he was puzzled by those who took to social media to criticize and spr...

A Christies auction of preHispanic artifacts went ahead Wednesday despite the Mexican governments appeals to stop it, the latest round in Mexicos losing battle to stop such sales.

A North Carolina trial judge on Wednesday ordered the state to pay out $1.75 billion to help narrow the states public education inequities, angering Republicans who said the directive usurps lawmakers' constitutional authority over state coffers.

Sergio Moro, who became a household name in Brazil as the judge that led the country's largest ever corruption probe, reentered the political fray on Wednesday, presenting himself as a unifying centrist ahead of presidential elections next year.

A statement from the New Jersey state Senate president following his election defeat has generated confusion online in recent days after it vaguely asserted that thousands of ballots had been found.

Members of AsiaPacific trade group APEC have reiterated a "strong stance" against vaccine nationalism to support the region's recovery from the pandemic and are committed to tackle climate change, host New Zealand said on Wednesday.

As smoke lingered in the air amid another destructive California wildfire season, former Gov. Jerry Brown invited a group to his ranch for an urgent conversation: What more could be done to save California's forests from wildfires?

Oil prices have soared to sevenyear highs as the global economy has recovered, and driven the U.S. retail gasoline cost to $3.42 a gallon, the highest in seven years.

A judge on Tuesday resentenced a Tennessee death row inmate to life in prison for the second time in two years, after finding the man's trial was marred by racism during jury selection.

President Joe Biden welcomed the NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks to the White House on Monday, praising team members not just for their achievements on the court, but also for their efforts to promote coronavirus vaccinations and for speaking out after the 2...