The UN General Assembly has voted by a wide margin to grant new rights and privileges toPalestineand called on the Security Council to favourably reconsider its request to become the 194th member of theUnitedNations.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed the head of the state guards on Thursday, two days after two of its members were accused of plotting to assassinate the president.

Joyful crowds gathered along the streets of France's southern port of Marseille on Thursday to see torchbearers carrying the Olympic flame through the city's most emblematic sites, a day after it arrived on a majestic three-mast ship for a welcoming ceremony.

Canadian riders Michael Woods and Riley Pickrell are out of the Giro d'Italia, as is Israel-Premier Tech teammate Nadav Raisberg, who was also involved in the same crash Wednesday on the fifth stage of the Giro d'Italia.

Ramn Fonseca, a partner in the Mossack Fonseca law firm at the centre of the Panama Papers scandal over the hiding of wealth in offshore entities, has died, a lawyer from his firm confirmed Thursday. He was 71.

A Boeing 737 plane carrying 85 people skidded off a runway at the airport in Dakar, Senegal's capital, injuring 10 people, according to the transport minister and footage from a passenger that appeared to show the aircraft on fire.

Severe storms tore through the central and southeast U.S. late Tuesday and Wednesday, spawning damaging tornadoes, producing massive hail, and killing one person in Tennessee and another in North Carolina when trees toppled onto their vehicles.

A FedEx Airlines Boeing 767 cargo plane landed at Istanbul Airport on Wednesday without its front landing gear, a Turkish Transport Ministry official said, adding there were no casualties and authorities had launched an investigation.

Severe storms passed through several counties in Michigan on May 7, creating tornadoes in some areas. One tornado was caught on a doorbell camera downing multiple trees outside the owner's home.

Jeannie Epper one of Hollywood's most renowned stuntwomen died Sunday at the age of 83.

A cruise ship sailed into a New York City port with a 13-metredead whale across its bow, marine authorities said.

FTX says that nearly all of its customers will receive the money back that they are owed and some will get more than that nearly two years after the cryptocurrency exchange imploded.

Florida this month became the first U.S. state to ban lab-grown meat. Other states are adopting similar laws while, in Canada, early whispers of the debate are stirring in an ongoing federal public review.

Ukraine's state security service said it caught two agents for Russia plotting the assassination of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top officials as "a gift" for Russian PresidentVladimir Putin as he was sworn in for a new term in the Kremlin on Tuesday.

TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance are suing the U.S. over a law that would ban the popular video-sharing app unless it's sold to another company.

Rescue teams trying to find dozens of construction workers missing since a multi-storey apartment complex collapsed in a coastal city in South Africa have made contact with 11 people buried alive beneath the mangled wreckage, authorities said Tuesday.