A new, more contagious COVID-19 variant is advancing through Brazil's Amazon region, where the coronavirus death rate is more than triple that of Canada's. ICUs are full and oxygen supplies are runnin...

China says it will no longer recognize the British National Overseas passport as a valid travel document or form of identification amid a bitter feud with London over a plan to allow millions of Hong ...

The Putin government is going after jailed anti-corruption crusader Alexei Navalny every way it can, using the full arsenal of its police, judiciary and propaganda outlets to vilify him ahead of more ...

Novavax Inc. said Thursday that its COVID-19 vaccine appears 89 per cent effective based on early findings from a British study and that it also seems to work — though not quite as well — against...

The strange saga of GameStop took a new twist on Thursday, as trading brokerage Robinhood put restrictions on trading in the company's shares, a move that drew the ire of the app's merry band of stock...

All around New Orleans, thousands of houses are being decorated as Mardi Gras floats because the elaborate parades normally held during the Carnival season leading to Fat Tuesday have been cancelled d...

The South Carolina Senate on Thursday passed a bill that would outlaw almost all abortions in the state, overcoming years of hurdles thanks to Republicans winning new seats in last year's elections. ...

A fire killed four patients at a COVID-19 hospital in the Romanian capital Bucharest early on Friday and 102 others were evacuated, officials said, the second deadly hospital fire in the European Uni...

The British government has started transferring dozens of asylum seekers to hotels to self-isolate after reports that more than 100 people housed at former army barracks in southeast England have test...

General Motors has set a goal of making the vast majority of the vehicles it produces electric by 2035, and the entire company carbon neutral, including operations, five years after that. ...

Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the release of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was convicted and later acquitted in the 2002 beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl. U.S. officials sai...

The U.S. economy contracted 3.5 per cent in 2020, the Commerce Department reported Thursday, the worst economic freeze since the end of the Second World War.

A near-total ban on abortion has taken effect in Poland and triggered a new round of countrywide protests three months after a top court ruled that the abortion of congenitally damaged fetuses is unco...

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others in her party condemned Republicans after it was revealed they had chosen new congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene for a spot on the House's labour and ...

A Russian court on Thursday rejected opposition leader Alexei Navalny's appeal against his arrest, while authorities detained several of his allies and issued warnings to social media companies after ...

Shares in an obscure video game retailer have gained more than 1,000 per cent in recent weeks as an army of online investors are waging war against Wall Street behemoths they resent for their power, m...

A World Health Organization team emerged from quarantine in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday to start field work in a fact-finding mission on the origins of the virus that caused the COVID-19 pan...

U.S. President Joe Biden signed a raft of executive actions on Wednesday to combat climate change, including pausing new oil and gas leases on federal land and cutting fossil fuel subsidies, as he p...

The United States could face a heightened threat of domestic extremist violence for weeks from people angry at Donald Trump's election defeat and inspired by the deadly storming of the U.S. Capitol, t...

A pair of professional investment firms that placed big bets that money-losing video game retailer GameStop's stock will crash have admitted defeat in the David vs. Goliath battle that has seen retail...