While the festivals can prove a windfall for hotel and restaurant owners, many of the workers are low paid or unpaid and the city's most destitute neighbourhoods do not see festival-goers at all.

The Chicago police department has been accused of targeting some of the city's poorest communities with a controversial tactic. Local activists say police are entrapping young black men with a so-called "bait truck", which

Immigration activists in the US are accusing the president of being a hypocrite. Donald Trump has been critical of the legal practice that gives relatives of citizens preference for moving to the US. Now

Sudan's ruling National Congress Party (NCP) has backed President Omar al-Bashir as its candidate for the 2020 election, state media reports. The party's advisory council announced Bashir as NCP's candidate after an overnight meeting

With the stated aim of bringing it back to the table of negotiation in order to clinch a "better" deal than the one signed by its predecessor, the Trump administration reimposed the first round

Samsung's latest Galaxy Note has arrived. The world's largest smartphone manufacturer unveiled on Thursday the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 -- an updated, but not exactly revolutionary, addition to its smartphone lineup. It also unveiled

Worries over a fragile Turkish economy and the risk of contagion in Europe unnerved investors on Friday and sent the lira to a record low against the US dollar. The Turkish currency plummeted as

Talk of partitioning Kosovo has heightened tensions in the region and provoked public alarm, with Serbian bishops calling on believers to pray for the "salvation of Kosovo". The reaction follows statements by Serbian and Kosovar

The US is planning to create The Space Force, a new branch of the US military, by 2020, Vice President Mike Pence announced on Thursday. It would become the US military's sixth branch, following

Former British foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, will face an investigation following Islamophobic comments about Muslim women who wear the face veil, according to a report by the Evening Standard newspaper. Johnson compared women wearing the