Facebook’s previous major scandals barely dented its global dominance, but experts said the tech giant may have hit a red line this time: evidence that it knew children using its apps were at risk of being harmed.

A federal judge ordered Texas to suspend the most restrictive abortion law in the US, calling it an “offensive deprivation” of a constitutional right by banning most abortions in the nation’s second-most populous state since September.

Opposition lawmakers in Chile said Tuesday they will present a parliamentary charge that could lead to the removal of President Sebastian Pinera, whom the Pandora Papers investigation accused of having links to the sale of a mining company by his children’s company.

US lawmakers pounded Facebook on Tuesday, accusing CEO Mark Zuckerberg of pushing for higher profits while being cavalier about user safety, and they demanded regulators investigate whistleblower accusations that the social media company harms children’s mental health and stokes divisions.

Global water resource management is “fragmented and inadequate” and countries should urgently adopt reforms ahead of a looming water crisis, the United Nations weather agency said yesterday.

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen was set to appear before the US Congress yesterday, where she is set to sharply criticize her former employer as “one of the most urgent threats” facing the country, and to demand transparency about its operations in order to better regulate it.

EU leaders will have a hard discussion on Europe’s place in the world at a summit yesterday, as they seek unity on how to deal with superpowers China and the United States.

Governments yesterday moved to limit the fallout from a release of millions of documents detailing how leaders have used offshore tax havens to stash assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

The whistleblower who shared a trove of Facebook documents alleging the social media giant knew its products were fueling hate and harming children’s mental health revealed her identity Sunday in a televised interview, and accused the company of choosing “profit over safety.”

Women marched by the thousands on Saturday on the Supreme Court, the Texas Capitol and cities across the United States to protest increasing state restrictions on abortion and advocate for maintaining a constitutional right to the procedure.

US pharmaceutical company Merck said it will seek authorization of its oral drug molnupiravir for Covid-19 after a trial showed that the drug can reduce hospitalization by 50 percent. 

Former US president Donald Trump asked a federal judge in Florida on Friday to ask Twitter to restore his account, which the company removed in January citing a risk of incitement of violence.

The United States surpassed 700,000 coronavirus-related deaths on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, as officials roll out booster doses of vaccines to protect the elderly and people working in high-risk professions.

A rare collection of sketches and paintings by American boxer Muhammad Ali - who loved to draw between fights - is going up for auction in New York next week.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that North Korea was increasing instability after a series of weapons test launches including one which it claims was a hypersonic missile.

The United Nations and the United States on Thursday spoke out over the killing of Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah and called on Bangladeshi authorities to investigate his shooting.

2001 - Nato formally invoked its mutual defence clause for the first time in its history after the United States produced evidence that Osama bin Laden was behind the Sept. 11 attacks.

It is essential for all humanity that we fulfil the promise of the Paris Agreement. I cannot emphasise enough that time is running out. Irreversible climate tipping points lie alarmingly close. We can either save our world or condemn humanity to a hellish future.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken renewed warnings Thursday that time was running out for Iran to return to a nuclear deal, saying it was up to Tehran to act.

The top US general conceded in a stark admission on Wednesday that the United States “lost” the 20-year war in Afghanistan.