Italian authorities say the inspections ensure naval safety. But humanitarian rescuers say the constant checks and bureaucratic delays are just the latest tactic Italy is using to keep such humanitari...

As Russia’s confrontation with the West deepens, domestic critics of President Vladimir Putin say they’re paying a heavy price. Activists with pro-Western leanings are being arrested and jailed an...

A stampede at a religious festival attended by tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews in northern Israel killed at least 44 people and injured some 150 others early Friday, medical officials said, i...

As Indians scramble to secure oxygen and public health experts warn infections aren't likely to fall much over the next few weeks, India's devastating second wave is being blamed on several factors, i...

Brazil on Thursday became the second country to officially top 400,000 COVID-19 deaths, losing another 100,000 lives in just one month, as some health experts warn there may be gruesome days ahead whe...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said early Friday that the main factions have agreed to delay the first elections planned in 15 years, citing a dispute with Israel over voting in east Jerusalem. T...

Joe Biden’s first presidential speech to the U.S. Congress was a call to reverse the legacy of a speech given in that same chamber exactly 40 years earlier. On April 28, 1981, another first-year pre...

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin as a "naked, thieving king" on Thursday in a courtroom video link from prison, his first public appearance since ending a hunge...

Pope Francis set a 40-euro ($60) gift cap for all Vatican employees Thursday and issued a new law requiring Vatican cardinals and managers to periodically report on their compliance with clean financi...

Los Angeles police say the woman who returned Lady Gaga's stolen French bulldogs was among five people arrested in connection with the theft and shooting of the music superstar's dog walker. ...

A town in northern Portugal opened a 516-metre-long pedestrian suspension bridge on Thursday, an attraction that locals hope will help draw visitors to the region in the years to come.

China launched an unmanned module on Thursday containing what will become living quarters for three crew on a permanent space station that it plans to complete by the end of 2022, state media reported...

Places around the U.S. are offering incentives to try to energize the nation's slowing vaccination drive and get Americans to roll up their sleeves — from free beer, pot and doughnuts to money towar...

Ontario and Quebec plan to expand vaccine eligibility to all adults next month, while Alberta expands age eligibility and directs more vaccines two regional hot spots.

Powered by consumers, the U.S. economy grew at a brisk 6.4 per cent annual rate last quarter — a show of strength fuelled by government aid and declining viral cases that could drive further gains a...

The U.S. Justice Department brought federal hate crimes charges Wednesday in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, charging a father and son who armed themselves, chased and fatally shot the 25-year-old Black m...

U.S. President Joe Biden declared Wednesday night in his first address to a joint session of Congress that "America is rising anew" on the verge of overcoming the historic pandemic.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday proposed a ban on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars in the United States, a win for anti-tobacco and civil rights groups, and a move that could e...

U.S. federal agents raided Rudy Giuliani's Manhattan home and office on Wednesday, seizing computers and cellphones in a major escalation of the U.S. Justice Department's investigation into the busin...

A new study has used millions of satellite images to generate the clearest picture yet of the world's glaciers and concludes they're getting smaller, faster.