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A jury has acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse on charges that he murdered two men and attempted to kill a third during chaotic 2020 racial justice protests in Wisconsin.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is set to win re-election after jailing top rivals and criminalising most dissent.

Executives from some of the world's biggest oil companies denied in US congressional testimony that they continue to misinform the public about the role of fossil fuels in climate change.

Nikolas Cruz could see life in prison or the death penalty over the 2018 Florida school shooting.

Powell became the first African-American secretary of state in 2001 under Republican President George W Bush.

Many US workplaces have issued ultimatums to staff to get vaccinated or lose their jobs, but some workers are sticking by their political, religious or health concerns and saying no.

Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou has arrived in China, the same day two Canadians detained by Beijing for more than 1000 days returned home.

Opinion - China's level of anger at the new Aukus defence pact between Australia, the UK and the US was only to be expected. France's was not, Geoffrey Miller writes.

US authorities moved some 2000 people to other immigration processing stations on Friday from a Texas border town that has been overwhelmed by an influx of Haitian and other migrants.

People share with BBC the moment they know they had lost their loved one to the QAnon conspiracy theory.

Australia's new security pact with the US and the UK has touched a nerve at the core of Pacific regionalism.

Relatives of people who died on 9/11 have read out victims' names, as the US marks 20 years since the deadliest terror attacks on its soil.

US President Joe Biden has urged unity as his country remembers the victims of the 2001 11 September attacks.

The Taliban have claimed victory in the last part of Afghanistan still holding out against their rule, declaring the capture of the Panjshir Valley completed their takeover.

US President Joe Biden has told the Justice Department to review documents from the FBI's probe into the September 11, 2001 attacks for declassification and release.

Flash flooding has killed at least 44 people in four Northeastern states as remnants of Hurricane Ida unleashed torrential rains, officials said.

It bans abortions after the detection of what anti-abortion campaigners call a foetal heartbeat, something medical authorities say is misleading.

Analysis: Tallying the balance of good and bad done in the Afghanistan War leaves Tim Watkin wondering at the immense damage and ongoing effects that have resulted from the US's retaliation for the…

The Pentagon says it can't yet dispute claims that a US drone strike on a suspected suicide bomber in Afghanistan killed a number of civilians.

A US drone strike in the Afghan capital Kabul has prevented another deadly suicide attack at the airport, US military officials say.

The hurricane made landfall as an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm that was set to plunge much of the Louisiana shoreline under water.

Hurricane Ida could plunge much of the Louisiana shoreline under water as the state grapples with a Covid-19 surge already taxing hospitals.

Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand's thoughts and condolences are with those who helped in evacuation efforts and all of those in Afghanistan. Audio