Railway workers in France went on strike on Wednesday, disrupting travel across the rail network days before the summer holidays begin and at a time of unrest in other areas of the economy as high inflation eats into salaries.

Despite a push from Democrats to limit gun purchases, it appears that Americans have been coming out in droves to acquire a personal firearm.

South African mourners gathered in the coastal city of East London on Wednesday to grieve the still-mysterious deaths of 21 teenagers in a poorly ventilated local tavern 10 days ago.

Around 440 inmates are on the run after a suspected raid by Islamist Boko Haram militants on a prison in Nigeria’s capital Abuja on Tuesday night, an interior ministry official said.

Canadian government spending is leaving the Bank of Canada to work alone to rein in the highest inflation rate in nearly four decades, economists say.

Britain’s Boris Johnson on Wednesday vowed to fight on against a chorus of calls for him to resign as prime minister, but his defiant pledge to keep going was met with derision and disregard from a growing number of his own lawmakers.