Basketball superstar LeBron James tied the NBA record for most regular-season games played as his Los Angeles Lakers took on the Miami Heat on Thursday. James took the court for his 1,611th ...

A Cuban activist jailed for putting up anti-government posters and defacing a Fidel Castro billboard suffered cardiac arrest after 48 days on hunger strike, NGOs said Thursday. Roilan Alvarez Rensoler ...

Dancehall artiste 450 will be launching his very own condom brand called 4intimacy. The brand features three condoms—curated for different users’ preferences and needs—named after some of his tracks.

A punishing heat wave was gripping the western United States (US) on Thursday, with parts of the region logging record temperatures even though it is still winter. The mercury was expected to hit 107F ...

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has disclosed that a member of the parliamentary caucus of the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP), called him to indicate that all Opposition Members of ...

American action star Chuck Norris has been hospitalised in Hawaii for an undisclosed condition, Hollywood news site TMZ reported Thursday, citing a source who said the actor was "in good spirits" ...

Students from the Salvation Army School for the Blind and Visually Impaired and Lister Mair Gilby School for the Deaf walked away with top awards in the junior and senior categories of the inaugural ...

The Jamaica Observer understands that winger Leon Bailey will be part of the Reggae Boyz squad for next week’s FIFA World Cup Playoffs, ending an eight-month absence. Bailey, who scored in Aston Villa ...

Department of State says it is expanding its visa bond programme to apply to a total of 50 countries, including Grenada, on ...

The Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA) says it has completed a $120 million recovery intervention in Jamaica’s coffee sector, aimed at supporting recovery in the aftermath ...

Here are the latest economic events in the Middle East war on Thursday:   - Markets in turmoil - European stocks slid further as surging oil and gas prices fuelled concerns that the war will drive ...

The Bill to establish the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority (NaRRA) that will drive the major reconstruction projects post-Hurricane Melissa was tabled in the House of Representatives ...