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Drivers around the world are feeling pain at the pump with fuel prices soaring, and costs are surging for heating buildings, power generation and industrial production.

The European Commission will on Wednesday propose legally binding targets to restore nature across the EU, in an attempt to recover plunging wildlife populations and repair degraded habitats.

Two high-tech Airbus A350 jets sit idle with their windows taped and engines covered in a floodlit hangar in the Gulf, hobbled by an international legal dispute between European industrial giant Airbus and Qatar's national carrier.

The cross-party group, which had been working for weeks on the wording of the legislation, voiced confidence that it would have enough support to pass the Senate, and it could be signed into law by President Joe Biden as soon as next week.

Britain is becoming a more closed economy due to Brexit, with damaging long-term implications for productivity and wages which will leave the average worker 470 pounds ($577) a year poorer by the end of the decade, a study forecast on Wednesday.

Disney cast members and employees celebrated International Yoga Day with group yoga at its various parks around the world.

South Korea on Wednesday confirmed its first case of monkeypox virus and pledged to strengthen monitoring and response systems as it raised the alert level to "caution" for the infectious disease.

A California jury reached a verdict on Tuesday in a civil trial in which a woman accused comedian Bill Cosby of sexually assaulting her at the Playboy Mansion in 1975.

A California jury in a civil case ruled on Tuesday that Bill Cosby sexually assaulted a woman at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was a teenager and ordered the comedian to pay her $500,000 in damages for emotional distress from the incident.

A Minnesota judge on Tuesday once again rescheduled the trial of two former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd's murder to Oct.

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards, a Democrat who opposes abortion, has signed legislation that would impose harsher criminal penalties on abortion providers if the U.S.

U.S. prosecutors decided not to pursue the rest of their criminal case against Michael Avenatti, clearing the way for the brash lawyer who represented porn actress Stormy Daniels in legal battles against Donald Trump to be sentenced for a third and perhaps final time.

Transgender cyclist Veronica Ivy questioned the move by swimming's governing body FINA to restrict the participation of trans athletes in elite women's competitions, telling Reuters that there had not been enough research to guide such decisions.

Elon Musk’s transgender child is looking to cut ties with her father in "any way, shape or form" and her mother has indicated that she supports the decision.

American pop star Beyonce Knowles-Carter has surprised fans with an early release of her single 'Break My Soul' from upcoming album 'Renaissance', setting social media ablaze with song lyrics that some say tap into rising worker anger at conditions.

Ecuador's armed forces on Tuesday said they would not allow ongoing protests against President Guillermo Lasso's economic policies to damage the country's democracy, as indigenous protesters clashed with security forces in Quito.

Ecuadorean protesters who have held more than a week of marches and road blockades over President Guillermo Lasso's economic policies, will not meet the government until it withdraws security forces from some areas of the capital, an indigenous leader said Tuesday.

The law enforcement response to the Uvalde school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers was "an abject failure" in which a commander put the lives of officers over those of the children, Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director Steven McCraw said on Tuesday.

The law enforcement response to the Uvalde school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers was "an abject failure" in which a commander put the lives of officers over those of the children, Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director Steven McCraw said on Tuesday.

The elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, where a teenage gunman killed 19 children and two teachers last month will be demolished, the city's mayor said on Tuesday.

U.S. Senator John Cornyn, the lead Republican negotiator in bipartisan gun legislation talks, told Reuters on Tuesday that negotiators expected to introduce a bill to address mass shootings later in the day.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Tuesday released new legislation to address mass shootings, setting the stage for the U.S.

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Tuesday was on the verge of releasing legislation to address mass shootings, after bridging differences on issues involving abortion, red flag laws and domestic violence.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers released the first significant gun control legislation in decades on Tuesday, paving the way for the U.S.

The U.S. Supreme Court further reduced the separation of church and state in a ruling on Tuesday endorsing more public funding of religious entities as its conservative justices sided with two Christian families who challenged a Maine tuition assistance program that excluded private religious schools.

The United States has begun distributing COVID vaccines for children as young as six months around the country, and availability of the shots will improve in the coming days, according to White House COVID-19 response coordinator Dr.

The United States has begun rolling out COVID-19 vaccines for children as young as six months after receiving the go-ahead from the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"About 15 to 20 New Yorkers attempted to pick this cab off these women," said NYPD's Deputy Chief John Chell of the Patrol Services Bureau.

When the victim, who was forced to drive at gunpoint by the kidnappers, noticed a police patrol and began driving erratically hoping to get pulled over for a traffic violation.