An escaped murderer suspected of killing five people while on the run was gunned down by Texas police, bringing an end to a three-week-long manhunt after the fugitive’s dramatic escape from a prison bus.

Ohio is set to enact a law that allows teachers and other staff to be armed with guns in schools once they have completed up to 24 hours of initial training.

US President Joe Biden will visit Saudi Arabia this month, reports said Thursday, a stark reversal for a leader who once called for the kingdom to be made a pariah.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a “super bad feeling” about the economy and needs to cut about 10 percent of jobs at the electric carmaker, he said in an email to executives seen by Reuters.

The world must cease its “senseless and suicidal war against nature”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said, singling out developed nations and their gluttonous use of the planet’s resources.

The US yesterday urged Bangladesh to adopt a transparent regulatory environment and implement reforms in the labour sector to secure foreign investments.

The famous snow-capped peaks of the Alps are fading fast and being replaced by vegetation cover -- a process called “greening” that is expected to accelerate climate change, a study said Thursday.

California regulators on Thursday gave a robotic taxi service the green light to begin charging passengers for driverless rides in San Francisco, a first in the state.

Amber Heard was “demonized” by ex-husband Johnny Depp’s legal team and excoriated on social media during a sensational defamation trial that ended with a jury ordering her to pay Depp $15 million, Heard’s lawyer said Thursday.

Republicans in the US House of Representatives on Thursday objected to a Democratic attempt to advance new limits on gun purchases as one Rebpublican legislator pulled out his handguns at a hearing to complain that they could be banned.

At least two people were wounded when multiple gunshots were fired at people attending a funeral in the US state of Wisconsin on Thursday, police said.

Actor Johnny Depp won more than $10 million in damages on Wednesday, achieving a near-total victory in a defamation suit against ex-wife Amber Heard to cap a six-week trial featuring graphic testimony about the stars’ soured relationship.

The US government lifted restrictions Wednesday on air links to Cuba, one of the measures announced in May by President Joe Biden’s administration in a gesture of conciliation toward the Communist-run island.

A gunman has killed at least four people at a hospital building in Tulsa, Oklahoma, police said -- the latest in a string of mass shootings across the United States in recent weeks.

Authorities say the man who opened fire at a Tulsa medical office had purchased an AR-style rifle hours before fatally shooting four people.

This spring Minneapolis became the first large city in the United States to allow the Islamic call to prayer, or azaan, to be broadcast publicly by its two dozen mosques.

A jury’s finding that both Johnny Depp and Amber Heard were defamed during their long-running public dispute capped a lurid six-week trial that also raised questions about whether the two actors can overcome tarnished reputations.

A man armed with a rifle and a handgun killed four people inside a medical building in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Wednesday before fatally shooting himself, police said, in the latest of a series of mass shootings to rattle the United States.

The Kremlin yesterday accused Washington of “adding fuel to the fire” by planning to supply Kyiv with advanced missile systems, as Ukraine looked close to losing the key eastern city of Severodonetsk to Russian forces.

A Supreme Court ruling on Thursday limiting Washington’s authority to reduce carbon output from power plants will hurt global efforts to fight climate change by slowing America’s emissions cuts and undermining US leadership efforts on the international stage, according to diplomats.