British speed skater Elise Christie overcame death threats to compete again in the Winter Olympics.

US airstrikes reportedly killed around 100 in Syria earlier this month, and Russian military contractors may be among the dead.

Martin Amidu said he has shied away from accepting awards because he believes public service is all about touching lives and not for personal gains.

When he was asked why he named the founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) as his Referee on his CV, Marin Amidu said it was because the former President brought him into politics and mentored him.

The former Attorney General said, "If you want anybody who would be meticulous in combating corruption and issues not in the interest of the country, President Akufo-Addo has chosen the best person for you".

Pastor Vincent Mboya Mulwa of Christ Pilgrim Restoration Centre (CPRC) said "It's not about men's desire to marry men women, but rather women's desire to have husbands.”

Down a sandy track past a desiccated animal carcass lies a cluster of half-built huts that Ethiopia's government and aid agencies hope will blunt the worsening toll of repeated droughts.

But the color of this machine, an Olivetti Lettera 32, belies its utilitarian function. How to describe this shade of blue? To call it aqua or teal seems too pedestrian for the man under consideration here.

AT&T, one of the nation’s biggest marketers, has yet to return to YouTube nearly a year after pulling its advertising from the platform because of concerns that it could appear alongside offensive material.

Jan Maxwell, the fiercely passionate, adoringly reviewed New York stage actress who earned five Tony Award nominations in seven years, including two in one season, died Sunday at her home in Manhattan. She was 61.

When Justin Timberlake released “The 20/20 Experience” five years ago, after years of anticipation by fans, the album opened with 968,000 sales and went on to become 2013’s top seller.

Atop a 20 foot ladder inside a New York City subway tunnel on a recent week night, a worker plunged a drill with a bit as long as a sword deep into a wet wall. Pulverized stone showered onto the third rail below, before the worker plugged the fresh hole with a length of rubber hose.

When she was passed over for an Olympic spot in 2014, Mirai Nagasu considered giving up figure skating. Instead, she used the snub as motivation.

President Donald Trump said Monday that the United States would soon announce a “reciprocal tax” on countries that take advantage of the United States on trade, including trading partners he described as “so-called allies.”

The love affair that Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea’s leader, enjoyed at the Winter Olympics in South Korea has not ended now that she is back home.

With the fate of hundreds of thousands of young, unauthorized immigrants in the balance, the Senate on Monday began an open-ended debate on immigration — an exceedingly rare step that, in effect, will allow senators to attempt to build a bill from scratch on the Senate floor.

In the first half of the 1990s, I worked in Europe for The Wall Street Journal. I covered nothing but good news: the reunification of Germany, the liberation of Central Europe, the fall of the Soviet Union, the end of apartheid in South Africa, the Oslo peace process in the Middle East. Then, toward the end of my stay, there was one seemingly anomalous episode — the breakup of Yugoslavia.

One week after the 2016 election, President-elect Donald Trump tweeted that he was “not trying to get ‘top level security clearance’ for my children,” calling such claims “a typically false news story.” But he said nothing at the time about his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

President Donald Trump’s $200 billion plan to rebuild America upends the criteria that have long been used to pick ambitious federal projects, putting little emphasis on how much an infrastructure proposal benefits the public and more on finding private investors and other outside sources of money.

Ruling that graffiti — a typically transient form of art — was of sufficient stature to be protected by the law, a U.S. judge in Brooklyn awarded a judgment of $6.7 million Monday to 21 graffiti artists whose works were destroyed in 2013 at the 5Pointz complex in Long Island City, Queens.