Two older inmates sued the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in March 2020 and won, but the case was overruled by an appeals court last month.

Japan has extended a coronavirus state of emergency in Tokyo and other regions by 20 days as the country continues to battle a Covid-19 infection wave. The news comes as the country prepares to host the Olympics in just over 50 days on July 23 – after a one-year postponement …

Two ancient sandstone artefacts believed to have been stolen from Thailand during the Vietnam War are set to return from the United States Friday night, officials say.

At least seven crematoriums and graveyards in India's western city of Surat saw a more than three-fold rise in the number of cremations and burials last month compared with a year ago, suggesting many more COVID-19 fatalities than an official tally.

A man has stabbed and badly wounded a policewoman in the French town of La Chapelle-sur-Erdre before he was arrested in a shoot-out, the national gendarmerie force and media say.BFM TV reported the assailant had been caught after a manhunt that involved two police helicopters and more than 200 officers.

Two pilots were injured after a trainer aircraft they were aboard crashed in the satellite city of Depok in Indonesian capital Jakarta on Friday morning, local authorities said. "Two people are in a safe condition and have been rushed to a hospital.

Russia on Friday threw its weight behind Belarus's increasingly isolated regime, slamming a European overflight ban as President Vladimir Putin prepared to host strongman Alexander Lukashenko.

The toppled statue of slave trader Edward Colston is to go on public display in the English city of Bristol. The bronze memorial to the 17th century merchant was pulled down from its plinth during a Black Lives Matter protest on June 7 last year in the wake of the …

A US woman who was charged earlier this week with murdering her two children has been deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial, according to multiple local news outlets.

Sri Lanka's Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) said acid rains would possibly hit the island country as a result of the burning X-Press Pearl container ship off the Colombo port, local media reported here Friday.