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The head of the World Health Organization says the US backing of a proposed waiver of intellectual property rights for COVID vaccines is a...

There are two distinct strands to today’s decision by Facebook’s oversight board, which is funded by the social media giant but made up of...

Facebook’s oversight board has upheld the indefinite suspension on former US President Donald Trump. The board has upheld Facebook’s decision on 7 January to...

Former US president Donald Trump remains banned from Twitter and Facebook but he might have found a way to weaken the effects of his...

A member of the American family that owns Manchester United has refused to apologise to fans over the disastrous attempt to form a breakaway...

A stolen car has just been recovered from a reservoir in Marin County in California, 25 years after it was dumped there. They only...

The four astronauts of SpaceX’s first full mission to the International Space Station have splashed back down to Earth off the coast of Florida....

Caitlyn Jenner has said that transgender athletes who were born male should not be allowed to compete in girls’ sports teams. Jenner recently announced...

The US has begun its final phase of the withdrawal of its own and NATO’s last troops from Afghanistan – with the aim of...

South Dakota’s governor is suing the US Department of Interior in a bid to see fireworks shot over Mount Rushmore on Independence Day. Republican...

Disneyland has reopened for the first time in over a year – as it was revealed more than 100 million Americans have been fully...

President Joe Biden has reached his 100th day in the White House. How has he spent his honeymoon period? And how is he navigating...

It was a speech full of promises but pragmatism too. US President Joe Biden was clear that he’d inherited a divided and struggling nation...

US President Joe Biden says America is “on the move” and that, despite the pain of the past year, the country can “turn peril...

It was Franklin Roosevelt who first invited Americans to use “the first 100 days” as a measure of his success as president. Nearly 90...

A black man who died during an attempted arrest in North Carolina was shot five times by police, including once in the back of...

US health officials have updated their guidance on what activities fully vaccinated people can safely do without the need to wear a mask. It...

US police officers were seen joking as they watched footage of a 73-year-old dementia sufferer whose shoulder was said to have been dislocated during...

An application has been made to pardon George Floyd for a 2004 drugs conviction. Mr Floyd was arrested in Houston in February 2004 by...