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German drugs company Bayer AG said on Thursday there were "bumps" in sealing its $11 billion (8.33 billion pounds) settlement of thousands of U.S. lawsuits over its Roundup weed killer after a U.S. judge cast doubt on the progress of the agreement.

Dartmouth College has insisted that eliminating five sports is mostly about saving money but some Asian athletes claim the cuts were possibly discriminatory and serve to perpetuate anti-Asian prejudices.

U.S. deaths from the novel coronavirus topped 180,000 on Thursday as Iowa and Minnesota reported record oneday increases in new infections.

Investors raised their bets on higher U.S. inflation after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell introduced a new strategy to allow the rate to rise above the 2% target, but market players still saw inflation remaining stubbornly below that level.

The accused Mushtak Ali, a resident of Barmer, was spying for Pakistan and has been arrested under provisions of the Official Secrets Act.

Joe Biden said Thursday that President Donald Trump sees unrest in Wisconsin as a political benefit and Biden said he would be willing to travel to the state if it would not be a distraction for law enforcement.

Central banks must explain their actions clearly to the people they serve to preserve public confidence amid a flood of misinformation during the coronavirus crisis, the head of the Bank of Canada said on Thursday.

Testing for COVID19 infections and a fast turnaround for results are critical for controlling the pandemic, but broadbased population tests are not always useful, officials at the World Health Organization said on Thursday.

Private equity firm L Catterton is preparing an initial public offering (IPO) of Leslie's Poolmart Inc that could value the retailer of swimming pool supplies at more than $3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits hovered around 1 million last week, suggesting the labor market recovery was stalling as the COVID19 pandemic drags on and financial aid from the government dries up.

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq rose to record highs on Thursday as the Federal Reserve sought to achieve inflation averaging 2% over time in an attempt to lift the U.S. economy out of a deep pandemicdriven recession.

When Juan Meza could no longer bear to hear his daughter crying from hunger, the Adventist pastor sold his family's few belongings, gifted his prized fantasy novels and history books to a neighbor and left Venezuela in 2017 for a job at a shoe factory in...

A U.S. District Court judge in Washington ruled on Thursday that the Justice Department's new lethal injection protocol violated drug safety laws and ordered a planned execution for Friday to be halted.

A painting by Dutch GoldenAge portraitist Frans Hals has been stolen from a small museum in the Netherlands, police said on Thursday.

The Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee has urged the Indian government to allow Sikh 'yatris' to attend the three-day prayers from September 20 to 22.

Ahmedabad and Surat cities have been affected most by the pandemic in the state.