Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday picked his fourth health minister since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, amid the worst throes of the disease in the country yet and after a series of errors dec...

As New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo tried to return to the business of governing Monday, one of his sexual harassment accusers met via Zoom for more than four hours with investigators working for the state ...

The Biden-Harris administration has proposed climate investments that could dwarf Canada's actions, both at home and abroad, unless we continue building national momentum towards change, write Richard...

Myanmar's ruling junta has declared martial law in a wide area of the country's largest city, as security forces killed dozens of protesters over the weekend in an increasingly lethal crackdown on res...

The Associated Press says a report that Donald Trump told Georgia officials on a December phone call about the November election to 'find the fraud' was incorrect and that he never used those words. ...

The Canadian government said it provided consular services to a four-year-old girl who escaped an Islamic State detention camp in northeastern Syria, but did not facilitate her exit.

U.S. officials have arrested and charged two men with assaulting U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick with bear spray during the Jan. 6 riot, but they do not know yet whether it caused the offic...

Moderna Inc said on Monday it had dosed the first participant in an early-stage study of a new COVID-19 vaccine candidate that could potentially be stored and shipped in refrigerators instead of freez...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine is safe and Canadians should have no concerns about receiving it, after nearly a dozen European countries suspended...

The Vatican decreed Monday that the Catholic Church cannot bless same-sex unions since God "cannot bless sin," while upholding the church's welcoming and blessing of gay people.

The Maha Kumbh Mela pilgrimage, one of the most important Hindu festivals that last week saw thousands upon thousands of people line the banks of the Ganges River in the holy city of Haridwar, is taki...

The one-year anniversary of the tightening at the Canada-U.S. border is approaching. Restrictions on border crossings will be extended another month. Pressure is growing for governments to explain the...

Quebecers in the Montreal area should now be able to book vaccine appointments at local pharmacies as the province continues to expand its COVID-19 immunization campaign, while Ontario launched its va...

Myanmar activists planned more anti-coup rallies on Monday, a day after dozens of protesters were killed in clashes with security forces and unidentified assailants torched several Chinese-financed f...

London's police commissioner on Sunday defended her officers' actions and said she didn't intend to resign, after coming under heavy criticism for the way police treated some protesters during a vigil...

CBC News has learned a 4-year-old Canadian girl has been freed from a detention camp in Syria holding ISIS members after her mother asked a former U.S. diplomat to get the child to Canada. ...

India reported the year's biggest daily increase in COVID-19 cases on Sunday, with 25,320 new infections, a day ahead of a lockdown in the western state of Maharashtra, the epicentre of the renewed su...

There have been few signals so far regarding how the Royal Family will handle the fallout from the explosive interview Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, did with talk-show host Oprah Winfrey...

Marvelous Marvin Hagler, one of the great middleweights in boxing history, died Saturday at the age of 66. "He was a real man, loyal and just a fantastic person," promoter Bob Arum says. ...

On the one-year anniversary of Breonna Taylor's death, the slain Black woman's family continued their call for justice as hundreds of demonstrators gathered in downtown Louisville on Saturday. ...