O.J. Simpson was granted parole and will be released from prison in October following an emotional hearing that centred on the botched armed robbery of his own mementos at a Las Vegas hotel that landed him behind bars for nine years.
The remains of a 27-year-old man were believed to have been recovered four days after a flash flood rushed down a rain-swollen canyon in central Arizona killing his wife and eight other family members, a local sheriff said.
The Trump administration is preparing sanctions against several senior Venezuelan government figures to pressure President Nicolas Maduro to abort plans for a controversial congress foes say would cement dictatorship.
Republican efforts to overhaul or repeal Obamacare collapsed in the US Senate dealing a sharp setback to President Donald Trump and the Republican Party's quest to kill the healthcare law.
Caitlyn Jenner has joined the list of celebrities who are considering running for political office in the United States following the election of former reality television star Donald Trump as president.
A US doctor offering experimental treatment to a critically ill British baby visited the London hospital where he is being treated as part of a last-ditch attempt to persuade a judge to keep the boy's life support switched on.
Former US President Jimmy Carter, appearing fully recovered from dehydration suffered while helping to build a home for charity in Canada, was released from an overnight hospital stay and addressed the project's closing ceremony.
The head of Islamic State in Afghanistan, Abu Sayed, was killed in a strike on the group's headquarters in Kunar province earlier this week, the Pentagon said.
Cuban President Raul Castro on Friday denounced US President Donald Trump's partial rollback of the US-Cuban detente, saying it ignored broad public support for better relations and would satisfy only a few Cuban-American hard-liners.
A US-Russian brokered ceasefire for southwest Syria held through the day, a monitor and rebels said on Sunday, in the first peacemaking effort of the war by the US government under President Donald Trump.
US President Donald Trump backtracked on his push for a cyber security unit with Russia, tweeting that he did not think it could happen, hours after his proposal was harshly criticised by Republicans.
President Donald Trump affirmed the US commitment to the defence of NATO allies in a speech that gently criticised Russia, and he said Western civilisation must stand up to "those who would subvert and destroy it".
A never-before-seen photograph has reignited the debate as to the fate of famed pilot Amelia Earhart after she vanished while attempting a round-the-world flight 80 years ago.
A US congressman who was criticised for filming a video inside a former gas chamber at the Auschwitz death camp apologised and removed it from social media, saying he had intended it as a tribute to those killed at the Nazi-run site.
The US cautioned it was ready to use force if need be to stop North Korea's nuclear missile program but said it preferred global diplomatic action against Pyongyang for defying world powers.
A convicted drug dealer was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the death of a Hollywood studio executive who was missing for more than two years before his remains were found buried in the California desert.
Two Afghan girls refused visas to the United States for a robot-building competition said they were mystified by the decision, as the contest's organisers said teams from Iran and Sudan as well as a de facto Syrian team had gained visas.
North Korea said it successfully test-launched a first intercontinental ballistic missile, (ICBM), which analysts said could put all of the US state of Alaska in range for the first time.