Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe was voted in as Sri Lanka’s new head of state backed by a majority of lawmakers from ousted leader Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s party, a development that could…
Historic rises in drug overdose deaths are disproportionately affecting Black and Indigenous people in the United States. A new analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention using data…
50 years after its release, Don McLean shares the secrets behind his iconic song 'American Pie', one of the great musical touchstones of the 20th century. The Day the Music…
Dinosaur footprints dating back 100 million years have been discovered in southwestern China after a sharp-eyed diner spotted them in a restaurant's outdoor courtyard. Several stone pits at the restaurant…
Temperatures also forecast to rise in the Netherlands and Belgium as wildfires continue to rage in southern parts of the continent Firefighters continued to battle blazes in southern Europe as…
CHICAGO (AP) — Emmett Till left his mother’s house on Chicago’s South Side in 1955 to visit relatives in Mississippi, where the Black teenager was abducted and brutally slain for reportedly whistling…
Country may be Africa’s first to stop mother-baby transmission as WHO hails ‘groundbreaking’ fall in rates from 40% to 1% Being told her baby, Lesedi, was born without the HIV…
NEW YORK (AP) — Don McLean has listened for decades as people belted out his classic song “American Pie” at last call or at karaoke — and applauds you for…
The United Nations Women Country Representative to Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States, Ms Beatrice Eyong, says Nigeria’s political atmosphere indicates the country is not ready to…
July 18 (UPI) -- Ghana has reported two cases of the highly infectious Marburg virus, the World Health Organization said, making it the first-ever outbreak of the disease in the West…