Like many adoptees before me, one of the first questions I asked my birth mother after an investigator helped me locate her was why she placed me, and why she placed my siblings. My heart filled with pain as I tried to come up with an excuse that would justify why a woman, a mother, would keep one child and then place three others in the arms of strangers
The Fifa Congress voted in May to conduct a feasibility study into holding biennial World Cups
Private citizens in state can now sue abortion providers and those deemed to be helping women access terminations and win $10,000
Government and Venezuelan opposition representatives are continuing a dialogue aimed at finding a common path out of their country’s political standoff
Health experts and medical groups are pushing to stamp out the growing use of a decades-old parasite drug to treat COVID-19
Through the pandemic and historic flooding, delivery workers are organising for better wages
Cobham Group, which is owned by US private equity house Advent, said on Monday that it has agreed a £2.57bn deal for London-listed Ultra Electronics.
Afghan national, 28, says from US base that homesick, reluctant fellow refugees are ‘uncertain’ and ‘confused’
Governor is appealing a recent ruling striking down his executive order banning school districts from enforcing mask mandates for students
The 30-year-old fights Mauricio Lara again on Saturday night
US climate envoy John Kerry told Chinese officials that there was ‘no way’ for the world to solve the climate crisis without Beijing’s ‘full engagement and commitment’
England’s eventual 290 all out owed much to the brilliance of Pope’s 81 and the daring of Chris Woakes’ straight 50
A Mississippi man freed after nearly 23 years in prison is suing the district attorney who prosecuted him six times in the killings of four people at furniture store
President says honouring commitment of transparency and heart remains with families of victims
The Surrey batsman fell for 81 as England were dismissed for 290 in the fourth Test against India
The U.S. government’s road safety agency has added another fatality involving a Tesla to the list of crashes it is probing due to the use of partially automated driving systems
Fans think Ellie is making a mistake
Guatemalan officials say they're trying to arrest a former anti-corruption prosecutor whose ouster led the U.S. to reduce cooperation with the Central American nation’s legal system
Oklahoma Attorney General John O'Connor says he is dropping his appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in the first-degree murder case of death row inmate Shaun Bosse
Ex-four-star US general warns processing refugees in third countries could take ten years, writes Andrew Buncombe
A privately designed, unmanned rocket built to carry satellites into orbit exploded in a fireball off the California coast
Variant is ‘constellation of mutations that indicate potential properties of immune escape,’ according to World Health Organization
Spanish scientists say Europe's southernmost glaciers will likely be reduced to ice patches in the next two decades due to climate change
Ahmaud Arbery's parents are praising the indictment of a former Georgia prosecutor
The Supreme Court has allowed a Texas law banning most abortions to remain in effect, marking a key turning point for abortion opponents in their fight to implement stronger restrictions