Globalized businesses have grown beyond the power of any single government to control them, but Facebook’s attempt to wield its might against Australia may inspire governments to work together. ...

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz flew into a storm of criticism on Thursday after leaving his home state of Texas in the grip of a deadly deep freeze, for a family holiday jaunt to the Mexican resort of Cancun h...

A young woman who was shot in the head by police during a protest last week against the military's takeover of power in Myanmar died Friday morning, her brother said.

Key players in the GameStop saga faced questions Thursday from U.S. House lawmakers concerned that even as investing becomes more democratized the scales are still tilted in favour of the big Wall Str...

Power was restored to more homes and businesses in Texas on Thursday after a deadly blast of winter this week overwhelmed the electrical grid and left millions shivering in the cold. But the crisis is...

Pfizer-BioNTech has announced the start of a global COVID-19 vaccine trial in pregnant women, with plans to begin studying the vaccine in young children in the coming months.

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...

Canada and Britain have joined forces once again, this time to impose new sanctions on Myanmar after its military toppled its elected government in a coup.

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. ...

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...

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...