A high school athlete ran her personal best but was disqualified for her hijab

The mood after the race was jubilant. Sixteen-year-old Noor Alexandra Abukaram, who had just run her best time yet, hugged her high school teammates as
Police Block Marching Teachers from Entering Lake Shore Drive

The Chicago Teachers Union headed back to the bargaining table Friday morning as classes were canceled for a seventh day amid optimism on both sides
Economy adds 953,000 jobs in June, unemployment rate falls

Statistics Canada says the economy added nearly one million jobs in June as businesses forced closed by the pandemic began to reopen. The agency says
Five killed in attack on South African church, hostages freed

JOHANNESBURG — Five people were killed in an attack on a church west of Johannesburg in the early hours of Saturday, South African police said,
Emirates airline to cut up to 9,000 jobs: report

DUBAI: Emirates airline has cut a tenth of its workforce during the novel coronavirus pandemic in layoffs that could rise to 15 percent, or 9,000
US man, 30, dies from virus after attending ‘Covid party’

A 30-year-old man from Texas died from the new coronavirus after attending a “COVID-19” party hosted by an infected person, a doctor has revealed, underlining
Journalist who exposed Malta’s Panama Papers link killed in car bomb

The journalist who led the Panama Papers investigation into corruption in Malta was killed on Monday in a car bomb near her home. Daphne Caruana Galizia, whose
Erdogan rejects criticism over Turkey’s Hagia Sophia landmark move

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Saturday rejected worldwide condemnation over Turkey’s decision to convert the Byzantine-era monument Hagia Sophia back into a mosque, saying it represented his country’s will to use