Maryland lawmakers are choosing a new speaker of the House, and for the first time it won’t be a white man.

Campaigners fighting British government plans to expand Heathrow Airport lost a challenge in one of the country’s highest courts on Wednesday.

The Latest on May Day events and rallies around the world (all times local):

The Alabama Supreme Court has set a new lethal injection date for a man convicted in the 1991 sword-and-dagger slaying of a pastor.

The organizers of Sudan’s protests have threatened a general strike and civil disobedience as tensions escalate with the military council that assumed power after the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is set to be sentenced Wednesday for jumping British bail seven years ago and holing up in the Ecuadorian embassy.

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Maoist rebels on Wednesday attacked a van carrying police commandos in the insurgents’ stronghold in western India and killed 15 officers and their driver, officials said.

A rights group is calling on Yemen’s Houthi rebels to release 10 journalists detained nearly four years ago on 'trumped-up' spying charges.

Israeli researchers reported Wednesday that violent attacks against Jews spiked significantly last year, with the largest reported number of Jews killed in anti-Semitic acts in decades, leading to an 'increasing sense of emergency' among Jewish communities worldwide.