Hundreds of millions of students around the world are out of school due to COVID-19, and the UN warns that COVID is exacerbating education inequalities that existed even before the pandemic. ...

Johnson & Johnson's long-awaited vaccine appears to protect against COVID-19 with just one shot. It's not as strong as some of its two-shot rivals but still potentially helpful for a world in dire nee...

U.S. Capitol Police are stepping up security at Washington-area transportation hubs and taking other steps to safeguard travelling lawmakers as Congress continues to react to this month's deadly assa...

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...

Regulators authorized AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine for use in adults throughout the European Union on Friday — the third vaccine given the green light by the European Medicines Agency — amid ...

China says it will no longer recognize a type of U.K. passport known as British national (overseas) as a valid travel document or form of identification amid a bitter feud with London over a plan to a...

The European Union on Friday abruptly reversed a plan to use emergency Brexit measures to restrict exports of COVID-19 vaccines from crossing the Irish border into the United Kingdom after it sent sho...

The United Nations and Western governments voiced alarm on Friday over threats by Myanmar's military that have stirred fears of a coup in the aftermath of an election the army says was fraudulent. ...

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 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 ...

Pakistan's government on Friday appealed to the country's Supreme Court to review its decision to free an Islamist convicted of kidnapping and beheading U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl, a day after the U...

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...

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 five patients at a COVID-19 hospital in the Romanian capital of Bucharest early on Friday and 102 others were evacuated from the building, officials said, the second deadly hospital fir...

A fire broke out at a former military barracks being used to house asylum seekers in Britain on Friday as tensions over the government's handling of a recent coronavirus outbreak at the facility flar...

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 ...