U.S. President Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election team said that it and his Democratic Party raised $72 million during the first quarter since the campaign launched, lending firepower to his efforts to seek a second term.

Striking Hollywood actors joined film and television writers on picket lines for the first time in 63 years, cheering and chanting outside major studios with calls for higher streaming-era pay and curbs on use of artificial intelligence.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned Ukrainians that Russia was throwing all its resources into a campaign to stop Kyiv’s troops from pressing their counter-offensive and a top general reported new progress on the southern front.

U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration will cancel $39 billion in student debt for more than 804,000 borrowers, the Education Department said, describing the relief as the result of a “fix” to income-driven repayment (IDR) plans.

More than a quarter of Britain’s single-parent households have recently run out of food and been unable to afford more, according to a survey from the country’s statistics agency which highlights the impact of surging inflation.

Republican U.S. presidential contenders attending a forum of Christian conservatives in Iowa that typically focuses on social issues found themselves on Friday having to explain their support for Ukraine in its war with Russia to a sceptical crowd.

The US government has approved the first-ever over-the-counter birth control pill.

Seafood organisations are calling for a pause on deep-sea mining after a new study claims the two industries could be in conflict as tuna migrates East due to climate change.

A high-quality counterfeit ring operating out of a house in Whanganui that put fake identity papers, including United Nations diplomatic passports, into the hands of international criminals, has been busted.

Teacher strikes are likely to end in England after union leaders came out in support of a new pay offer.

The head of a United Nations agency has called for an investigation into the killing of at least 87 people who were discovered in a mass grave in Sudan’s West Darfur region.

The sole nominee to be the next prime minister of Thailand failed to secure enough parliamentary votes to form a government.