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PayPal on Monday launched a stablecoin digital currency backed by US dollars to be used for transactions at its global online payments platform.

Donald Trump pushed back on Monday against a bid by government lawyers to restrict what he can share publicly about his historic prosecution for allegedly conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Stefanos Tsitsipas held out hope on Monday that massive changes in his coaching staff will pay results at this week's ATP Toronto Masters.

World number ones Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek, the reigning US Open champions, were named Monday as the top seeds for next week's WTA and ATP Cincinnati Masters tournament.

The second-ranking US diplomat met Niger's military leaders on Monday to press to reverse a coup but she reported no headway a day after the junta ignored an ultimatum from the West African bloc.

Bella Hadid has told fans she will be back to work "when I'm ready" after lengthy treatment for Lyme disease, scotching rumors she had stepped back from the catwalk for good.

Paramount Global said Monday it had reached an agreement to sell Simon & Schuster, a top US publisher, to private equity firm KKR for $1.62 billion.

The Pebble Beach Pro-Am will become a "signature" event on the 2024 US PGA Tour schedule released on Monday even as a merger framework agreement with LIV Golf remains unresolved.

The American Red Cross on Monday announced it will now allow gay and bisexual men to donate blood without restrictions that specifically target them over their sexual orientation.

Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson was suspended for six games and Cleveland third baseman Jose Ramirez received a three-game ban on Monday from Major League Baseball for their roles in a Saturday brawl.

William Friedkin, the groundbreaking US director of "The Exorcist" and "The French Connection," died on Monday, a family friend told AFP. He was 87.

Dutchman Harrie Lavreysen made history in Glasgow on Monday by winning his fifth consecutive world title in the sprint, the premier event in track cycling, at the World Cycling Championships.

Boeing on Monday said its Starliner spaceship will now be ready to carry out its first crewed flight by March -- though the actual launch date will depend on space calendar constraints.

Portugal attacker Goncalo Ramos has joined Paris Saint-Germain from Benfica on a one-year loan deal with an option to buy, the French champions announced on Monday.

Argentina coach Michael Cheika on Monday announced his squad for the Rugby World Cup in France, cutting experienced wingers Santiago Cordero and Bautista Delguy.

Britain's Kieran Reilly claimed the hosts' first gold of the World Cycling Championships on Monday winning the BMX Freestyle Park title.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday dismissed environmental protests over the felling of trees to expand a coal mine in southwest Turkey, saying the campaign was led by "marginals".

Indigenous leaders from across South America called Monday for bold steps to protect the Amazon and their ancestral lands ahead of a summit on saving the world's biggest rainforest.

US director William Friedkin, who died Monday, will forever be remembered for his Oscar-winning "The Exorcist" in 1973, one of the most controversial horror films of all time that still chills new generations of moviegoers.

Some 300 women and minors were kidnapped in Haiti by criminal gangs in the first half of this year, UNICEF said Monday, warning of a disturbing rise in abductions that leave "deep physical and psychological scars."

Three people died after two firefighting helicopters collided in the US state of California, causing one to crash into a hillside killing everyone on board, emergency officials said early Monday.

There is less plastic littering the ocean than scientists previously thought, but what is there could persist for a long time, a new study said Monday.

Russia's Daniil Medvedev has returned to his tennis heaven with the summer hardcourt season starting Monday in North America at the Toronto Masters.

Britain on Monday began housing migrants on board a barge docked off the southwest English coast, in its latest controversial immigration policy that has drawn heavy criticism from locals and rights campaigners.

French police on Monday said they had arrested a 55-year old German national after his wife was discovered naked and with broken bones following 12 years in captivity at the couple's home.

Crouching beside Ukrainian-made attack drones on a runway, TV star Serhiy Prytula appeared keen to taunt Moscow with a crowdfunded fleet that experts have linked with recent strikes inside Russia.

West African leaders will hold a summit on the crisis in Niger this week after the country's military rulers defied an ultimatum to restore the elected government or face possible military intervention.

Russia said Monday it plans to launch a lunar lander this week after multiple delays, hoping to return to the Moon for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Kenyan victims of the 1998 US embassy bombing in Nairobi on Monday renewed calls for compensation from Washington as the East African nation marked 25 years since its deadliest terror attack.

US scientists responsible for a historic nuclear fusion breakthrough say they have repeated the feat -- this time achieving a greater yield of energy.

Firefighters in Spain and Portugal were battling to keep wildfires spanning thousands of hectares contained Monday as a scorching heatwave hit the Iberian peninsula, worsening conditions.

Concerns about the potential for further interest rate hikes weighed on stock markets Monday even as data pointed to weakening economies in the US and Europe, though Wall Street managed to recover some of last week's heavy losses.