U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Friday the government would run short of money to pay its bills on June 5, which would trigger a potentially calamitous default, unless Congress raises the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling.

An engineering chief at Twitter says he is leaving the company the day after the launch of Ron DeSantis’ US presidential campaign on the platform was hit with technical glitches.

India’s economy will grow about 6% this fiscal year with a small increase in private investment, according to a Reuters poll of economists who said lower growth and high inflation were the biggest risks to the outlook.

Praising his leadership and even his culinary skills, President Joe Biden formally announced his nomination of Air Force Chief General Charles Q. Brown as the top U.S. military officer, making the choice at a time of mounting American concern over security threats posed by Russia and China.

A man was arrested after a car collided with the front gates of Downing Street, the site of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s office and residence, in an incident London police said was not currently being treated as “terror-related”.

As the water lapped against ruined appliances in Ihor Medunov’s kitchen, he recalled the dozens of birthdays he has marked in his Ukrainian riverside village, most of which is under several feet of water.

More than 13,000 people were denied a vote in English local elections this month because of the government’s new identification law, with those in poorer areas most impacted.

U.S. President Joe Biden and top congressional Republican Kevin McCarthy appeared to be nearing a deal to cut spending and raise the government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling.

Three people have been killed in a stabbing and shooting attack in central Japan, local media say.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted full approval to Pfizer’s (PFE.N) oral antiviral COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid.

German authorities on Wednesday searched 15 properties nationwide in an investigation into protests by Last Generation climate activists who have caused large-scale disruption by gluing themselves to roads and blocking rush-hour traffic.

More than nine out of 10 Japanese firms feel a sense of crisis about the country’s accelerating birthrate decline, with few hopeful that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government can arrest the fall, according to a Reuters monthly poll.