With a flick of his brush, Ghanaian painter Daniel Anum Jasper armed actor Paul Newman with a pair of revolvers. Unfinished paintings of a bell-bottomed John Travolta and nunchuck-spinning Bruce Lee adorned the walls...

A virtual version of the handwritten notes for the song "Hey Jude" has been sold at auction in California for almost $77,000, the latest hammer price success for NFTs.Originally entitled "Hey Jules," the Fab...

A 4-billion-year-old meteorite from Mars that caused a splash here on Earth decades ago contains no evidence of ancient, primitive Martian life after all, scientists reported Thursday.In 1996, a NASA-led team announced that organic...

South Africa recorded more than 20,000 new coronavirus cases Wednesday, nearly double the number from one week earlier. The government is making a renewed push for people to get vaccinated, but so far is...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention projects that 100,000 Americans died of drug overdose between May 2020 and April 2021 — a nearly 30% increase over the previous year.While not an official...

U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced Friday its new COVID-19 pill showed an 89% reduction in risk of COVID-19-related hospitalization or death in clinical trials and they plan to submit the drug to U.S. regulators...

Facebook announced Thursday it was changing its name to Meta, rechristening itself as a digitally innovative company moving beyond 2D screens even as insider revelations paint the tech giant as apathetic toward hate speech,...

Families across Myanmar marked the October Harvest Moon Festival on Wednesday with heavier hearts this year amid the brutal crackdowns, arrests and detentions that have followed the military’s February coup.In accordance with Buddhist tradition,...

Amazon.com Inc.'s livestreaming e-sports platform Twitch said Wednesday that it had been hit by a data breach. It gave no details.An anonymous hacker claimed to have leaked Twitch data, including information related to the...

The world’s biggest diplomatic event is back – well, kind of. The 76th session of the UN General Assembly kicked off at UN headquarters in New York on 14 September, and the headline-grabbing General...