Dozens of girls from a state-run shelter for runaways and victims of sexual abuse -- including seven who are pregnant -- have tested positive for coronavirus, Indian officials said Monday, raising fears about its spread in institutional homes. A probe was launched after almost 60 out of 171...

Two Paris statues related to France’s colonial era were found covered in red paint on Monday amid global calls to take down monuments commemorating figures with links to slavery or colonialism.  One of the statues drenched in red was of Voltaire, a leading thinker and writer of the...

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden will highlight his plan to safely reopen a US economy ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic Wednesday on his third visit this month to the must-win election battleground state of Pennsylvania. The former vice president met business owners struggling...

North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office on its side of the border on Tuesday, the South's Unification ministry said, after days of increasingly virulent rhetoric from Pyongyang. "North Korea blows up Kaesong Liaison Office at 14:49," the ministry, which handles inter-Korean...