Seven years after Yazidi women and children were kidnapped and enslaved by the Islamic State in Iraq, thousands are still missing. Abdullah Shrem has built a secret network of cigarette smugglers and ...

Russia has reportedly sent thousands of troops to the border areas with Ukraine, worrying some that it may be poised for another invasion. The prospect of a summit between U.S. President Joe Biden and...

Facing swift blowback from allies and aid groups, the White House on Friday said U.S. President Joe Biden plans to lift his predecessor's historically low cap on refugees by next month, after initiall...

Raúl Castro confirmed he was handing over the leadership of Cuba's all-powerful Communist Party, ending an era of formal leadership by him and his brother, Fidel Castro, that began with the 1959 rev...

Coroners released the names of the eight victims killed by a gunman who opened fire at people in the parking lot of a FedEx facility.

The United States is preparing for the possibility that a booster shot will be needed between nine to 12 months after people are initially vaccinated against COVID-19, a White House official said on T...

Britain's Helen McCrory, who starred in Harry Potter films and the TV series Peaky Blinders, has died after a battle with cancer, her husband, actor Damian Lewis, said on Twitter Friday. She was 52....

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology put spider web formations through computer algorithms, creating melodic tones, chords and dissonant harmonies.

Russia said it would expel 10 U.S. diplomats and take other retaliatory moves in a tense showdown with Washington in response to a barrage of new U.S. sanctions.

A Hong Kong court on Friday sentenced five leading pro-democracy advocates, including media tycoon Jimmy Lai, to 14 months in prison for organizing and participating in a massive march during 2019 ant...

Iran has begun 60 per cent uranium enrichment at its Natanz plant, the country's nuclear chief said on Friday, days after an explosion at the site that Tehran blamed on Israel.

Saying it was "time to end America's longest war" after two decades, U.S. President Joe Biden has announced his country's pending military withdrawal from Afghanistan. For Americans, the war will soon...

Chicago's police review board released body camera video footage on Thursday of a police officer's fatal shooting of a 13-year-old boy late last month.

The former Minnesota police officer charged with the shooting death of a Black man during a traffic stop in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center made her first court appearance Thursday. Kim Pott...

India's two largest cities imposed stringent restrictions on movement and one planned to use hotels and banquet halls to treat coronavirus patients as new infections in the country shot past 200,000 T...

Prince William and Prince Harry won't walk side-by-side Saturday as they follow their grandfather's coffin into the church ahead of Prince Philip's funeral, minimizing the chances of any awkward momen...

'It's crisis upon crisis,' says Canadian/Vincentian lawyer Louise Mitchell about the conditions in St. Vincent and the Grenadines after the volcanic eruption of La Soufrière that filled the sky with ...

The defence at the murder trial of former Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd rested its case Thursday without putting Chauvin on the stand, presenting a total of two days of testimony ...

Beijing's top official in Hong Kong is warning foreign forces not to interfere with the "bottom line" of national security in the city, threatening retaliation amid tensions between China and Western ...

The Google Earth app is adding a new video feature that draws upon nearly four decades of satellite imagery to vividly illustrate how climate change has affected glaciers, beaches, forests and other p...