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US President Donald Trump has awarded golfer Tiger Woods the country's highest civilian honour, describing the 43-year-old as a "true legend" who transformed golf and then fought through years of injury to return to the sport's summit. more

A passenger plane has slid off a runway in the US state of Florida, ending up in a river after landing during a thunderstorm. None of the 143 people on board the Boeing 737 were seriously hurt.more

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has told a London court he will fight extradition to the United States where he faces trial for one of the largest compromises of classified information in history.more

Documents obtained by The Verge show how Amazon used a computer system to automatically track and fire hundreds of fulfillment center employees between for failing to meet productivity quotas - a grim glimpse of a future in which AI is your boss.more

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani signed a bill into law on Tuesday declaring all U.S. forces in the Middle East terrorists and calling the U.S. government a sponsor of terrorism.more

When the news leaked last week that the U.K. would ignore U.S. warnings and deploy Huawei equipment within its 5G network, the immediate response from Washington was relatively muted and understated. Not any longer it seems.more

A 19-year-old man was in custody after a shooting at a California synagogue on the last day of Passover left at least one person dead and several others wounded, the city's mayor said Saturday.more

Jeremy Corbyn has declined an invitation to attend a state dinner with Donald Trump when the US president visits the UK in June.more

New York governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law a statewide ban on single-use plastic bags. It is estimated that New York uses 23 billion plastic bags every year with 50 percent of those plastic bags ending up in landfills and around the city and waterways.more

Increasing the number of visa applications from candidates meeting the requirements is crucial to qualifying Poland for the visa-free travel program. We encourage Poles who are considering applying for a visa or renewing it, to submit an application before the end of September - the US embassy in Warsaw appeals.more

Twitter has reported better-than-expected financial results, sending its shares surging, as Donald Trump accused the social media platform of "playing political games".more

Anti-Donald Trump campaigners have promised to flood London during his expected first full state visit to the UK in early June.more

Crowds of New Yorkers in fancy headgear and costumes participated on Sunday in the Easter Parade, which went through the representative Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The parade was accompanied by tightened security measures this year.more

A college philosophy teacher arrested after entering St. Patrick's Cathedral carrying two cans of gasoline, lighter fluid and butane lighters had also been arrested at a New Jersey cathedral this week and had booked a Thursday flight to Rome, the New York Police Department said.more

Only days after flames ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, a man has been arrested after entering St Patrick's Cathedral in New York carrying two cans of gasoline, lighter fluid and butane lighters, according to the New York Police Department.more

Undergraduate students at Jesuit-run Georgetown University voted overwhelmingly April 11 to pay a new student fee that would be for reparations to the descendants of slaves owned and later sold by the school.more

Jeff Bezos on Thursday issued a challenge to other retailers, not naming which ones specifically, to match Amazon's pay and benefits.more

Donald Trump is expected to be given the honour of a state visit from the Queen when he next returns to the UK, senior Whitehall sources have said.more

The UK Government has spent £12 million of taxpayers' money to buy a luxury penthouse in New York for a British diplomat in efforts to woo Americans.more

A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Max airliner made an emergency landing in Orlando, Florida, on Tuesday.more

Cristiano Ronaldo's Juventus will play the pre-season International Champions Cup in Asia and not in the United States amid the Portugal star's rape investigation there, the New York Times has reported.more

Facebook's Instagram is trialing a feature that lets U.S. users shop from the photo-sharing app by using a "checkout" option on items tagged for sale, the company said on Tuesday.more

The St. Patrick's Day parade once again kicked off in midtown Manhattan Saturday morning. Thousands lined Fifth Avenue - many decked out in green and shamrocks - for the annual event.more

The Boring Company, which Elon Musk founded in 2016 to develop the infrastructure capacity to build tunnels-presumably for projects like the Hyperloop-has a new project on the horizon. But it's not a Hyperloop. It's a "people mover" that the company could design, build, and operate beneath the Las Vegas Convention Center within the next two years if approved.more

Satellite images of a facility near Pyongyang suggest that North Korea may be preparing to launch a missile or a satellite.more