The United Nations has appointed a former National Coordinator of the National Disaster Management Organisation of Ghana to head the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF). UNDOF ‘s mandate is to...
Dou Zecheng could scarcely believe it as he became the first Chinese golfer to earn a prized PGA Tour card, saying his rise to the world's richest circuit was "going to be pretty big." It completes a...
A bag Neil Armstrong used to collect the first ever samples of the moon -- which was once nearly thrown out with the trash -- sold at auction Thursday for $1.8 million, Sotheby's said. The outer...
Two more US Republican senators announced their opposition Monday to their party's efforts to revamp Obamacare, derailing the controversial legislation in its current form and potentially dealing a...
Once nearly thrown out with the trash, a bag that Neil Armstrong used to collect the first ever samples of the moon goes on sale in New York next week, valued at $2-4 million. Traces of moon dust and...
Firms operating nuclear power plants and other energy facilities in the US have been hacked in recent months, the New York Times reported. It quoted what it called an urgent report issued in late...
Students and professors will be legally allowed to carry concealed handguns onto college campuses starting Saturday in the US state of Kansas. The concealed carry law was enacted four years ago and...
Several states have rejected a White House request for sensitive personal data on all registered voters, scoffing at President Donald Trump's election fraud commission and warning the information...
Step through the doors of the Evel Knievel Museum in Kansas and you come face to face with a bright red, 63-foot semi-truck. It is the oversized home of the larger-than-life American stunt man when...
Frozen out of power in Washington and having lost a string of congressional races this year, Democrats are struggling to craft winning strategies to convert disillusionment with President Donald...
A US federal jury on Friday ordered Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta to pay nearly $218 million to 7,000 Kansas farmers after selling them genetically-modified corn seeds not approved for export to...
Finally, some good news for Donald Trump: battling dismal approval ratings, the US president on Wednesday relished a Republican victory in a closely-watched congressional election in Georgia, calling...
Israeli forces arrested the mother of a slain Palestinian assailant early on Wednesday after she praised her son's deadly east Jerusalem attack, the army and police said. Two youths from the village...
Voters in Georgia cast ballots Tuesday in the priciest US congressional race ever, a $60 million political nailbiter where a Democratic novice could score an upset in a conservative stronghold -- and...
Markelle Fultz is expected to become the number one pick in Thursday's NBA Draft after the Philadelphia 76ers swung a deal for the top choice after watching his private workout. The 19-year-old point...
African Development Bank (AfDB) has proposed new investment strategies in Africa’s agriculture sector, which, if properly implemented, would effectively alter the market structures around the world...
Some 23 million people would lose health insurance over the next decade under the revised Republican healthcare plan, says a non-partisan agency. Fourteen million people would be uninsured in 2018...
Can a guitar-strumming cowboy poet strike the first blow at the polls against President Donald Trump? Democrat Rob Quist reckons he can do just that, in Thursday's closely-watched special...
Chelsea Manning was a meek, geeky army private who stunned the world in 2010 by leaking a massive trove of secret US diplomatic records, hoping to spark debate over the country's role in wars. But...
Chelsea Manning, the transgender army private jailed for giving US secrets to WikiLeaks, said Wednesday she was looking to put the past behind her as she walked free from a maximum-security prison in...
