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The rebranding would position Facebook's social media app as one of many products under a parent company, which will also oversee groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus.

Travel restrictions between Sydney and Melbourne, Australia's largest cities, eased on Wednesday as Victoria opened its borders to fully vaccinated residents from New South Wales amid a rapid rise in immunisation levels.

British foreign minister Liz Truss will travel to Saudi Arabia and Qatar this week, seeking to further the case for a trade deal with Gulf countries and deepen diplomatic ties.

Alabama will be the third state to carry out an execution during the COVID19 pandemic and will be the only prison system to reduce the number of news media witnesses to a single reporter.

Terminal Two at Britain's Manchester Airport will reopen after Greater Manchester Police found no security threat following reports of a suspicious package, a spokesperson for the airport said on Tuesday.

The family of a Florida college student who detectives say was killed by a handyman at an apartment complex where they both worked and she lived has sued the owners, saying management didn't properly vet the employee and failed to provide adequate securit...

More than six weeks after promising a new vaccinationortesting rule covering the millions of Americans at companies with 100 or more workers, President Joe Bidens most aggressive move yet to combat the COVID19 pandemic is almost ready to see the light of...

The work of U.S. and Canadian missionaries kidnapped in Haiti over the weekend included helping rebuild homes following an August earthquake on the island, according to their Ohiobased organization that has aid projects all over the world.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to hear an emergency appeal of a vaccine requirement imposed on Maine health care workers, the latest defeat for opponents of vaccine mandates.

FBI agents on Tuesday raided homes in Washington and New York City linked to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire with ties to the Kremlin and to Paul Manafort, the onetime chairman of Donald Trump's 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.

On the same day last week that a southern Oregon county declared a state of emergency amid a sharp increase in illegal cannabis farms, police raided a site that had about two tons of processed marijuana and 17,500 pot plants.

A federal judge on Monday agreed to push back until next year the sentencing for U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz's friend who pleaded guilty earlier this year to sex trafficking and other charges.

Miami, Oct 18 (AP) A businessman who prosecutors say was a major conduit for corruption by Nicols Maduro's inner circle appeared for the first time in Miami federal court Monday after a weekend extradition that has further strained relations between the U...

Colin Powell has died from complications from Covid-19, his family said on Facebook.

In recent months, more than 1,000 anonymous graves have been found near former Catholic Indian residential schools.

Independent conservative Peter MarkiZay won a primary contest Sunday to become the joint candidate of a sixparty opposition coalition that will challenge rightwing populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Hungary's elections next spring.