The South Carolina Supreme Court struck down a ban on abortion after cardiac activity is detected — typically around six weeks — ruling the restriction enacted by the Deep South state violates a state constitutional right to privacy.

It was all supposed to be a formality that plays out every two years on January 3.

The US has approved the use of the world’s first vaccine for honey bees.

A stream of sensational claims and accusations from Prince Harry’s autobiography, Spare, have been leaked.

A Utah man fatally shot his five children, his mother-in-law and his wife and then killed himself two weeks after the woman had filed for divorce, according to authorities and public records.

Mexican security forces captured Ovidio Guzmán, an alleged drug trafficker wanted by the United States and one of the sons of former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, in a pre-dawn operation that set off gunfights and roadblocks across the western state’s capital.

US President Joe Biden has announced a new plan to accept up to 30,000 migrants each month in a bid to tackle the border crisis.

Pope Benedict XVI’s coffin has been put in its resting place in the grottoes beneath St. Peter’s Basilica.

Heavy rain and powerful winds are lashing coastal areas of northern California and forecasters have warned of the risk of flooding and landslides.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his defence minister to impose a 36-hour ceasefire on the Ukrainian frontline, beginning on Friday.

The growing number of Chinese public figures whose deaths are being made public is prompting people to question the official Covid death toll.

Angry crowds gathered in Delhi, demanding justice for a scooter rider who was killed and dragged by a car for miles through the streets of India’s capital.