The Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka was on edge on Friday (December 19), with the offices of several newspapers still reeling from a night of protests, triggered by the death of popular youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an order directing the loosening of federal regulations on marijuana, a move that could further reverse decades of tough-on-weed policy.

Police have identified a suspect in last weekend’s deadly mass shooting at Brown University and are investigating a possible link to the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor two days later near Boston, a person familiar with the matter said.

The funeral of 10-year-old Bondi Beach shooting victim Matilda will be held in Sydney on Thursday as her parents criticized the government for failing to respond to a rising tide of antisemitism.

Netflix’s (NFLX.O), opens new tab decision to acquire assets from Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.O), opens new tab has not changed, its co-CEOs Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos said in a letter to employees on Monday.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has no plans to put a “black box” warning on COVID-19 vaccines, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing the agency’s top official Marty Makary.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would likely soon file a lawsuit against Britain’s BBC over its editing of a speech he made in 2021 on the day his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol.

A JetBlue (JBLU.O), opens new tab passenger jet bound for New York took evasive action on Friday to avoid a mid-air collision with a U.S. Air Force tanker plane near Venezuela, a pilot said in an air traffic control recording.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday declaring fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction, a move that dramatically expands the U.S. government’s authority to fight the synthetic opioid blamed for tens of thousands of American overdose deaths each year.

The United Nations Secretary-General has strongly condemned the terrorist attack at a Jewish celebration in Australia.

A deadly on-campus shooting at Brown University in Providence, the U.S. state of Rhode Island, has left at least two students dead and nine others injured, sending shockwaves across the Ivy League school and reigniting debate over gun violence in the U.S.

A Sydney fruit shop owner who wrestled a gun from one of the alleged attackers during the mass shooting at Bondi Beach is recovering in hospital after undergoing surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family said.