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Police in suburban Denver have apologized after a group of Black girls were detained, and at least two handcuffed during a weekend investigation of a stolen car. Officers later determined that the vehicle they were seeking had the same license plate numbe...

The Trump administration is taking steps to give telehealth a broader role under Medicare, with an executive order that serves as a call for Congress to make doctor visits via personal technology a permanent fixture of the program.

No new deaths were reported from the 14 flood-hit northern districts and the death toll stood at 13, stable for more than 48 hours.

Tropical Storm Isaias was expected to regain hurricane strength on Monday as it moved up the U.S. East Coast, threatening a deadly storm surge before making landfall in North Carolina or South Carolina by Monday night.

France said on Monday it would not ratify a 2017 extradition treaty with Hong Kong after China introduced a controversial national security law for the global financial hub.

Norway stopped all cruise ships with more than 100 people on board from disembarking at its ports from Monday, after an outbreak of COVID19 was reported late last week on a ship that had already disembarked at the port of Tromsoe.

Oil prices rose about 2% on Monday on positive economic data from Europe, Asia and the United States, but rising COVID19 cases globally and oversupply worries fuelled by the prospect of OPEC and its allies easing output cuts limited gains.

The dollar rallied and equity markets rose on Monday as investors welcomed upbeat manufacturing data from around the world and as Microsoft's pursuit of TikTok's U.S. operations bolstered the redhot technology sector.

U.S. manufacturing activity accelerated to its highest level in nearly 11/2 years in July as orders increased despite a resurgence in new COVID19 infections, which is raising fears about the sustainability of a budding economic recovery.

A Russian diplomat said on Monday a group of more than 30 suspected Russian mercenaries detained in Belarus last week were only passing through Minsk and were on their way to an unnamed Latin American state.

The World Health Organization warned on Monday that there might never be a "silver bullet" for COVID19 in the form of a perfect vaccine and that the road to normality would be long, with some countries requiring a reset of strategy.

President Ghani thanked Prime Minister Modi for timely supply of food and medical assistance to meet Afghan requirement.

A decline in U.S. Treasury yields over recent weeks has investors eyeing the approach of an unusual phenomenon the entire U.S. yield curve sinking below 1%.

Societe Generale SA said on Monday it hoped to put all "the bad news" behind it following two straight quarterly losses that have prompted a revamp of its struggling markets unit.

Late in March, Laura Gross, 72, was recovering from gall bladder surgery in her Fort Lee, New Jersey, home when she became sick again.

Infections in India crossed 1.8 million on Monday after a record daily jump over the weekend which saw the country's interior minister testing positive.