Harvey Weinstein appears in a Manhattan criminal court during his retrial. Photo: AP

A Manhattan jury found Harvey Weinstein guilty on a sex crimes charge yesterday, though the jury has not yet reached a verdict on all counts the former movie mogul faces in deliberations that have been marred by infighting and threats.

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Over 20 arrested on first night of restrictions in Los Angeles after days of protests

Police detained more than 20 people, mostly on curfew violations, on the first night of restrictions in downtown Los Angeles and used crowd-control projectiles to break up protests against president Donald Trump&s immigration crackdown, officials said yesterday.

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Graz school shooter sent video to his mother warning of plans to attack, but she saw it too late

The suspected school shooter who killed at least 11 in the Austrian city of Graz sent his mother a suicide video warning of his plans ahead of the attack.

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Perry Bacon: Waving guns and arresting 3,000 people a day is scaring Americans

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents making arrests in the car park of a Home Depot hardware store helped set off mass protests in Los Angeles. But that wasn&t an isolated incident. ICE is increasingly taking actions at courthouses, restaurants and other spaces it previously stayed away from.

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‘Highly volatile environment& & up to 60 killed in airstrikes and shootings near food aid site in Gaza

Israeli gunfire and airstrikes killed up to 60 Palestinians in Gaza yesterday, most of them near an aid site ­operated by the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in the centre of the enclave, local health officials said.

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Last month was second-hottest May ever recorded, exceeded only by last year, scientists say

The world experienced its second-warmest May since records began this year, a month in which climate change fuelled a record-breaking heatwave in Greenland, scientists said on Wednesday.

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