A former music pastor who was once a contestant on the TV talent show American Idol has been found guilty of murdering his wife. 

New York state prosecutors have reopened an investigation into the alleged gang rape of a woman at a Cornell University fraternity house two years ago.

US forces are set to pull out from their last bases in Iraq, leaving the country where 4,500 of their comrades died over more than 20 years of war.

Authorities investigating the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of US TV host Savannah Guthrie, are examining a possible new ransom note.

A man who has spent decades on death row in Utah is being released after prosecutors said newly analysed DNA evidence did not match him.

When Donald Trump weighed in on the “Fairford Five” on Sunday, he made news – but was his statement based on fact? 

The Pope has repeated his warnings about artificial intelligence – saying concerns the technology could go rogue are not “fake news”.

An American man has told of his delight after a Highland Games expert in Scotland helped to solve the mystery of his 181-year-old family heirloom.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has warned that getting countries to agree on a global framework for AI could be more difficult than Cold War-era negotiations to restrict nuclear weapons.

Iran has insisted that only diplomacy ​can solve its conflict with the US and Israel after Donald Trump said he rejected an Iranian proposal to reopen the Strait ‌of Hormuz and end the fighting.