Delegating aspects of safety certification to Boeing is "not working as Congress intended" and declaring 737 Max jets safe to fly created a "credibility problem" for the Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA, in view of two recent fatal crashes, the chairman of a House of Representatives panel charged at a hearing on Wednesday.
Oakland may follow neighboring San Francisco, which this week became the first major US city to ban the use of facial recognition technology by local government agencies.
A huge number of adults in the United Kingdom have had suicidal thoughts because of concerns about their body image, according to a new survey.
NEW YORK - A sculpture by US artist Jeff Koons sold on Wednesday for $91.1 million at an auction organized by Christie's in New York - a record price for a living artist.
In addition to suffering from drought, floods and storms that forced millions of people to flee their homes, sub-Saharan Africa still experienced ongoing and new conflicts and violence throughout 2018.
At least six family members were killed in an airstrike by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition that hit a house in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Thursday, Xinhua News Agency reported, citing authorities and witnesses.
Sudan's Transitional Military Council, or TMC, on Thursday announced suspension of talks with the major opposition forces for three days, Xinhua News Agency reported.
MANILA - It is a brutal 600-kilometer gauntlet during which competitors face searing heat, wild seas, vicious predators, and the threat of kidnapping.
CANBERRA - Leaders of Australia's major political parties have made their last pitch to voters ahead of the general election on Saturday.
The Alabama state Senate late on Tuesday passed what is considered the strictest anti-abortion bill in the United States.
MOSUL, Iraq - Watheq Mahmud is pursuing an advanced engineering degree but the textbooks he needs are often missing in his native Mosul, the Iraqi city where extremists burned volumes and destroyed libraries.
TOKYO - Hawaiian "super corals" that have recovered despite living in warm and acidic water offer a glimmer of hope that dying reefs across the world can be saved, a new study says.
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