Egypt held a gala parade on Saturday celebrating the transport of 22 of its prized royal mummies from central Cairo to their new resting place in a massive new museum further south in the capital. ...

A Capitol Police officer was killed Friday after a man rammed a car into two officers at a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol and then emerged wielding a knife. It was the second line-of-duty death th...

DMX's longtime New York-based lawyer, Murray Richman, said the rapper was on life support Saturday evening at White Plains Hospital.

A train barrelled into an unmanned truck that had rolled onto the track Friday in Taiwan, leaving at least 51 people dead and dozens injured in the island's deadliest rail disaster.

The suicide crisis among Indian farmers is deeply felt in the poorest districts in Punjab, which is often referred to as the country’s breadbasket, because of its rich soil and rice fields. Nearly e...

The last ships stranded by the grounding of a giant container vessel in the Suez Canal passed through the waterway on Saturday, according to the canal authority, which said an investigation into the i...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidance to say fully vaccinated people can travel within the U.S. without getting tested for the coronavirus or going into quarantine a...

British regulators on Thursday said they have identified 30 cases of rare blood clot events after the use of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine, 25 more than the agency previously reported. ...

A former Minneapolis police supervisor, on duty the night George Floyd died, testifies that officers could have stopped restraining him after he was handcuffed and no longer resisting. ...

A number of states in Brazil are in critical condition and hospitals are overwhelmed by COVID-19, World Health Organization epidemiologist Maria van Kerkhove said Thursday.

Seven pro-democracy advocates were convicted Thursday for organizing and participating in an unlawful assembly during massive anti-government protests in 2019, as Hong Kong continues its crackdown on ...

The gunman who killed four people and critically wounded a fifth at a Southern California office building knew all the victims and apparently, before opening fire, chained shut the gates to two entran...

President Joe Biden on Wednesday outlined a $2.3 trillion US plan to re-engineer the nation's infrastructure over the next eight years in what he billed as "a once in a generation investment in Ameri...

The former Minneapolis police officer on trial for the murder of George Floyd was heard for the first time defending the actions of the police, telling a bystander they had to control Floyd because he...

A man was arrested on hate-crime and assault charges after a Filipino American woman was attacked near New York City's Times Square, police said early Wednesday.

Ontario announced a provincewide "shutdown" to combat a spike in coronavirus cases amid a third wave of infections on Thursday, while Alberta confirmed it, too, was dealing with a third round of pande...

A Canadian warship sailed through sensitive waters near China this week amid heightened tensions between the two countries.

A college science professor and an aerospace data analyst were named on Tuesday to round out a four-member crew for a SpaceX launch into orbit that's planned for later this year and billed as the firs...

In a study of 2,260 U.S. volunteers ages 12 to 15, preliminary data showed there were no cases of COVID-19 among fully vaccinated adolescents compared to 18 cases among those given a placebo, Pfizer r...

The famous pink cherry blossoms of Kyoto reached full bloom this year on March 26, the earliest date in the 12 centuries since records began, according to a Japanese university.