Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the World Food Program

The World Food Program has won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger and food insecurity around the globe.

American poet Louise Glück wins 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature

American poet Louise Glück won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature for her work, which looks unflinchingly and with biting humor at loss and trauma.

US charges 2 British ISIS members in deaths of American hostages

The Justice Department is preparing to announce charges against two men from Britain who joined the Islamic State and were part of a cell that beheaded Western hostages in Syria.

Nobel Prize for chemistry awarded to American, French women

French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier and American Jennifer A. Doudna have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a method of genome editing.

Experts say Trump's messaging on COVID-19 misguided

President Donald Trump says people shouldn't fear the coronavirus, but public health experts note that 1 million worldwide deaths are among reasons to be concerned.

Geneva votes to increase minimum wage to $25, believed to be highest in the world

Geneva voted for the minimum wage to be increased to $25, making it the highest minimum wage in the world, according to the Geneva Trade Union Action Community.

Nobel physics prize awarded to 3 scientists for cosmology finds

The 2020 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to Briton Roger Penrose, German Reinhard Genzel and American Andrea Ghez for discoveries relating to black holes.

1 in 4 young Asian Americans experienced anti-Asian hate amid COVID-19

A study conducted by the Stop Asian-American Pacific Islander Hate Youth Campaign found that 1 in 4 young Asian Americans have personally experienced anti-Asian hate during the COVID-19 pandemic.

2 Americans, 1 British scientist win Nobel medicine prize

Announcing the prize in Stockholm, the Nobel Committee noted that the trio's work helped explain a major source of blood-borne hepatitis that couldn't be explained by the previously discovered hepatitis A and B viruses.

WHO:  1 in 10 worldwide may have been infected with coronavirus

The World Health Organization estimates that 10% of the world's population has been infected by the coronavirus.

President Trump's coronavirus infection thrusts world in uncharted territory

News that U.S. President Donald Trump was infected with the world's most notorious disease is drawing shock, sympathy and some barbs for the American leader.

Election 2020: World reacts after 1st Biden-Trump debate

The first debate pitting Republican President Donald Trump against Democratic challenger Joe Biden left many aghast overseas. The director of a London think tank said the two candidates telling each other off had created “a level of disbelief, just shock, frankly."

Worldwide death toll from coronavirus eclipses 1 million: Johns Hopkins University

The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus eclipsed 1 million on Tuesday, nine months into a crisis that has devastated the global economy, tested world leaders’ resolve, pitted science against politics and forced multitudes to change the way they live, learn and work.