Japan's Seiko Hashimoto, a woman who has competed in seven Olympics, said on Thursday she had been chosen as president of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing committee, replacing a man who resigned after sett...

Utility crews raced Wednesday to restore power to nearly 3.4 million customers around the U.S. who were still without electricity or heat in the aftermath of a deadly winter storm, and another blast o...

Provocative and polarizing U.S. talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, a leading influential voice on the American political right since the 1980s who boosted and was honoured by former U.S. president Donal...

The United Kingdom won't access its share of vaccine doses from the COVAX program, says British High Commissioner to Canada Susan le Jeune d'Allegeershecque.

Crowds cheered Wednesday as the site of the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City was demolished by a series of deliberate explosions. Trump opened the tourist attraction in 1984 but lost cont...

Queen Elizabeth's husband, Prince Philip, was admitted to hospital on Tuesday evening as a precautionary measure, Buckingham Palace said.

The icy blast across much of the U.S. injected more confusion and frustration into its COVID-19 vaccination drive on Wednesday just when it was gathering speed, snarling vaccine deliveries and forcing...

Facebook will restrict publishers and users in Australia from sharing or viewing news content in response to proposed laws that would require it and Alphabet, Google's parent company, to pay publisher...

Scientists say they have recovered the oldest DNA on record, extracting it from the molars of mammoths that roamed northeastern Siberia up to 1.2 million years ago in research that broadens the horizo...

Former U.S. president Donald Trump lashed out at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday, signalling a growing feud between the two most important voices in the Republican Party. ...

Gunmen have attacked a school in Nigeria's north-central Niger State, killing at least one student and abducting more than 40 people including students and teachers, according to officials. ...

The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee is about to get a new president — and it looks like it will be a woman. According to a report in Japan, the job will be offered to 56-year-old Olympic Minister...

A desperate plea from Dubai’s Princess Latifa, who claims her father, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, drugged her and held her hostage, has the world wondering what has happened to her and ha...

Amy Cooper, the white woman arrested last year for calling 911 on a Black birdwatcher in New York's Central Park, had her criminal case thrown out Tuesday after she completed a diversionary counsellin...

Police in Myanmar filed a new charge against ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, her lawyer said Tuesday, in a move that may allow her to be held indefinitely without trial as part of an intensifying crac...

A Democratic congressman accused Donald Trump in a federal lawsuit on Tuesday of inciting the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and of conspiring with his lawyer and extremist groups t...

A group of cerulean canines found near the abandoned chemical plant in Dzerzhinsk, Russia, seem to be healthy, according to a veterinarian, but scientists continue to seek the cause of the colour shif...

A rare deep freeze brought snow and ice to normally temperate parts of the southern United States, forcing the electricity grid operator in Texas to impose rotating blackouts because of higher power ...

French lawmakers overwhelmingly approved on Tuesday a bill that would strengthen oversight of mosques, schools and sports clubs to safeguard France from radical Islamists and ensure respect for French...

An official says an overcrowded bus has driven off a bridge and into a canal in central India, killing at least 40 people.