Hamza bin Laden, the son of the late al Qaida leader Osama, has been killed in a US counter-terrorism operation in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, White House officials have said.
A worker in the US has found what is believed to be a Civil War cannonball lodged in a tree that he was hired to take down.
An unusual passenger was found in a student’s backpack at a school in Florida.
North Korea launched at least two unidentified projectiles toward the sea on Tuesday, South Korea’s military said.
Rescuers are looking for four crew members who are unaccounted for after a vessel overturned near a Georgia port, the US coast guard said.
Former South Carolina governor and congressman Mark Sanford has decided to launch a longshot Republican challenge to US President Donald Trump.
Police in Washington DC are searching for a man who broke into a Subway shop and made himself a sandwich.
A Taliban suicide car bombing in Kabul has killed a US service member, a Romanian soldier and at least 10 Afghan civilians in a busy diplomatic area that includes the US embassy.
A bear made himself at home in a restaurant toilet after sneaking in through a window.
Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei has accused US authorities of attempting to break into its information systems and of trying to coerce its employees to gather information on the company.
Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s has unveiled a new flavour to highlight what it calls structural racism and a broken criminal justice system in the US.
US defence secretary Mark Esper has approved the use of 3.6 billion US dollars (£2.97 billion) in funding from military construction projects to build 175 miles of President Donald Trump’s wall along the Mexican border.
Relief officials have reported scenes of utter ruin in parts of the Bahamas and rushed to deal with an unfolding humanitarian crisis in the wake of Hurricane Dorian.
China has insisted it is not the source of the fentanyl that is killing Americans, contrary to President Donald Trump’s recent tweets blaming China for the drug deaths.
President Donald Trump has said he is not sure if he has “ever even heard of a Category 5” hurricane – despite having made the same claim when similar storms threatened the United States in previous years.
The United States and China have gone ahead with their latest tariff increases on each other’s goods, potentially raising prices Americans pay for some clothes, shoes, sporting goods and other consumer items.
An already dangerous Hurricane Dorian has intensified yet again as it closes in on the northern Bahamas, threatening to batter islands with Category 5-strength winds, pounding waves and torrential rain.
Seven people are dead after a man with a semi-automatic rifle opened fire during a routine traffic stop in Texas and began a terrifying rampage that ended with police gunning him down outside a cinema.
Former FBI director James Comey violated FBI policies in his handling of memos documenting private conversations with Donald Trump, the Justice Department’s inspector general has said.
A creative teenager has found a novel way to embarrass and entertain his younger brother when he gets home from school.
A family have been reunited with their pet cat 11 years after he went missing thanks to a tenacious stranger.
Officials in the US state of Virginia have marked the anniversary of the first arrival there of enslaved Africans 400 years ago.
Denmark’s prime minister has had a phone conversation with US President Donald Trump, who earlier this week scrapped a visit to the country by saying Mette Frederiksen was “nasty” when she rejected his idea of buying Greenland as an absurdity.
China has announced it will raise tariffs on 75 billion dollars of US products in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s planned September 1 duty increase in a war over trade and technology policy.
Dozens of air mattresses flying through the air were caught on camera by a resident of Denver, Colorado when winds swept an outdoor cinema event.
Jeffrey Epstein signed a will just two days before he killed himself in the Manhattan federal jail, new court records show, opening a new legal front in what could be a years-long battle over the financier’s fortune.
A woman who was taken to hospital with what she thought was kidney stones turned out to be going into labour with triplets.
President Donald Trump has talked to aides and allies about buying Greenland for the US.
Markets pushed higher on Tuesday despite a number of global economic and political uncertainties, as the latest round of US tariffs on Chinese goods looked set to be delayed.
North Korea has said leader Kim Jong Un supervised test-firings of an unspecified new weapons system.
A millionaire charged with strangling his wife in California has been captured after being on the run for the past four years.
Venezuela’s vice president has said the latest US sanctions freezing the assets of Nicolas Maduro’s government are an attack on private property and a threat to world order.