Former U.S. president Donald Trump has parted ways with his lead impeachment lawyers little more than a week before his trial, two people familiar with the situation said Saturday. The change injects ...

Sexual abuse within families had long been a problem France failed to confront. That appears to have changed recently with the release of a book that exposed a dark and decades-old secret of a promine...

Cindy, a businesswoman and mother of two young children, is one of thousands of people fleeing Hong Kong since Beijing imposed a draconian national security law on the territory last summer. ...

Le buchette del vino — or wine windows — are foot-high, dome-shaped holes in the thick, stone palazzi of Florence that six centuries ago were used to sell wine. Now, with the need for physical d...

Two men identified as members of the Proud Boys have been indicted on federal conspiracy and other charges in the U.S. Capitol riot as prosecutors raise the stakes in some of the slew of cases stemmin...

Canada's chief public health officer is highlighting the mental health impact that the pandemic has on front-line workers and stressed the importance of following public health measures to lessen that...

India blocked mobile internet services in several areas around New Delhi on Saturday as protesting farmers began a one-day hunger strike after a week of clashes with authorities that left one dead and...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a sweeping order late Friday requiring the use of face masks on nearly all forms of public transportation Monday as the country continu...

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...