George Floyd's scuffle with police, along with Derek Chauvin's knee pressed into his neck, was too much for his underlying heart condition and caused the death of the 46-year-old Black man, the local...

La Soufrière volcano on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent erupted on Friday after decades of inactivity, sending dark plumes of ash and smoke billowing into the sky and forcing thousands from sur...

With new variants pushing ICUs past their limits, experts are warning that Brazil's soaring COVID-19 infection rates have become a global public health threat.

DMX — the raspy-voiced rapper whose success spanned both decades and genres — has died at the age of 50. A statement from relatives Friday said he died with family by his side.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg criticized nations she said were unwilling to share vaccines with those that have little access to the drugs.

Airlines pulled dozens of Boeing Max 737s out of service for inspections after the aircraft maker told them about a possible electrical problem, the latest setback for the plane.

Canada's Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam said the spread of more contagious coronavirus variants is driving a strong resurgence of the virus in many parts of the country.

Some of the tugboats that helped free the Ever Given, one of the world's largest cargo ships, from the Suez Canal were designed in Vancouver. The architects who designed them explain how powerful thes...

George Floyd's pre-existing medical conditions and drugs in his system had nothing to do with his death, two medical experts for the prosecution testified at Derek Chauvin's murder trial Thursday. Ra...

Georgia is now the epicentre of a heated U.S. battle over ballot access. But what exactly is in its controversial voting law? Here's a look at a bill that, depending on who you talk to, is either a ne...

The U.K. government excludes its pensioners living in Canada from the indexing that would allow their incomes to keep pace with inflation. Pensioners say the policy is discriminatory, the federal gove...

Former NFL player Phillip Adams fatally shot five people including a prominent doctor, his wife and their two grandchildren before later killing himself, authorities said Thursday.

U.S. President Joe Biden, in his first gun control measures since taking office, announced a half-dozen executive actions Thursday aimed at addressing a proliferation of gun violence across the nation...

At least 11 demonstrators were killed in clashes with security forces in a town in northwest Myanmar after truckloads of troops arrived to quell a protest against the ruling military junta, domestic m...

Authorities in Northern Ireland sought to restore calm Thursday after Protestant and Catholic youths in Belfast hurled bricks, fireworks and gasoline bombs at police and each other. It was the worst m...

Authorities on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent said Thursday they believe an active volcano is in danger of erupting and have ordered mandatory evacuations.

This year's French Open has been postponed by a week due to the COVID-19 pandemic and will begin on May 30, the French Tennis Federation (FFT) said on Thursday.

A lawyer for imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has complained of serious back and leg pain in custody, says prison doctors have determined his client is suffering from two spin...

Kyaw Zwar Minn, Myanmar's ambassador to the United Kingdom, told Reuters he was locked out of the London embassy on Wednesday, with sources saying his deputy had shut him out of the building and taken...