Basketball legend Michael Jordan speaks out on police violence and announces two $1 million grants, to civil rights group NAACP's Legal Defense Fund and to a group that works on improving police relations with communities.

The Democratic Party kicked off its national convention yesterday to anoint Hillary Clinton its presidential nominee, as a row over leaked emails showing party leaders sought to undermine campaign rival Bernie Sanders threatened to upstage the gathering.

The world's leading economies must do more to boost slowing global growth, the International Monetary Fund and

The following are key quotes from New York billionaire Donald Trump's speech on Thursday accepting the

At times, the speech was drowned out by the cheering crowds in the arena of the Republican National Convention.

Antonio Guterres, Portugal's ex-prime minister who was UN refugee chief for 10 years, led the closely watched first straw poll vote

US officials on Thursday called on partners in the coalition against Islamic State to increase intelligence sharing as the militant group morphs to focus on attacks beyond its shrinking self-declared caliphate in Iraq and Syria.

The alleged boss of the world's biggest online piracy site, Kickass Torrents, was hit with US criminal charges

An international panel of judges has concluded that Indonesia's mass killings of 1965 were crimes against humanity,

Onetime presidential challenger Ted Cruz shocked the Republican convention Wednesday by thumbing his nose at

The United States gathered its allies in the coalition fighting the Islamic State group Wednesday and agreed on a plan to corner the jihadists in their final bastions.

The US State Department has approved the sale of $785 million in bombs to the United Arab Emirates for the US-led

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Donald Trump tried to put the Republican National Convention back on track following a rank-and-file revolt

A gunman inside a gun shop near Atlanta begins shooting at police officers, who returned fire after responding to reports of a break-in at the business shortly before dawn Tuesday, Marietta police say.

A gunman fatally shot an elderly patient and a hospital employee in an apparently random attack inside a Florida hospital early yesterday,

The White House has said previously classified papers concerning the 9/11 attacks released on Friday show there

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has suggested testing all US Muslims to see if they believe in Sharia law, and deporting those who

Republican Donald Trump yesterday told Republican officials he has picked Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his vice presidential running mate, a Republican source said, choosing a conservative with the potential to unify divided Republicans.

The United States is using quiet diplomacy to persuade the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam and other Asian nations