An emotional Joe Biden marked the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre that destroyed a thriving Black community in the Oklahoma city, declaring Tuesday that he had "come to fill the silence" ...

A 41-year-old man in China's eastern province of Jiangsu has been confirmed as the first human case of infection with a rare strain of bird flu known as H10N3, Beijing's National Health Commission ...

Saskatchewan's mask mandate could be lifted as early as mid-July,as Alberta announced a further relaxing of COVID-19 restrictions,

A special Sri Lankan police team has begun investigating a fire on a container ship anchored off its capital that has caused severe marine pollution, officials said Monday. Here's a look at the damage...

Pope Francis has changed Catholic Church law to explicitly criminalize the sexual abuse of adults by priests who abuse their authority and to say that laypeople who hold church office also can be sanc...

On Sunday, right-wing nationalist party leader Naftali Bennett announced a deal with centrist Yair Lapid to form a new 'unity government' to end the political upheaval in Israel. If successful, it wou...

The Biden administration is suspending oil and gas leases in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as it reviews environmental impacts of drilling in the remote region that has been the focus of a ...

An ongoing NATO exercise is dusting off the alliance's Cold War-era skills and scenarios for rapidly reinforcing Europe in a crisis. An exercise in keeping Atlantic Ocean sea lanes open and getting tr...

India's Serum Institute will increase production of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine by nearly 40 per cent in June, officials said on Monday, in a step toward alleviating a shortage that has wo...

Naomi Osaka withdrew from the French Open on Monday and wrote on Twitter that she would be taking a break from competition, a dramatic turn of events for a four-time Grand Slam champion who also said ...

The World Health Organization revealed new names on Monday for the COVID-19 variants of concern which goes by multiple, sometimes cumbersome names.

Quebec downgraded several regions — including Quebec City — from the highest pandemic-alert level Monday, as the province reported fewer than 300 new COVID-19 cases for the first time since mid...

China's ruling Communist Party said Monday it will ease birth limits to allow all couples to have three children instead of two in hopes of slowing the rapid aging of its population, which is adding t...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he is looking to the G7 to come to an agreement on implementing vaccine passports and to start discussions on a global pandemic preparedness treaty at next mo...

The head of a small hard-line party on Sunday said he would try to form a unity government with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's opponents, taking a major step toward ending the 12-year rule of the...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he's hopeful his country can reach a permanent agreement with Canada on dairy trade. He also highlighted the importance of an agreement on climate financing f...

Naomi Osaka was fined $15,000 at the French Open for skipping a post-match news conference after her first-round victory Sunday — and threatened by all four Grand Slam tournaments with stiffer penal...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancee Carrie Symonds are newlyweds. His Downing Street office says they were married Saturday in a small private ceremony in London.

A 46-year old man from China has scaled the tallest peak in the world from the Nepal side, becoming the first blind man from Asia to climb Mount Everest.

Alexander Lukashenko has survived as Belarus's authoritarian ruler for 27 years by knowing how to play Russia off against the West. But did his gambit to "hijack" an Irish airliner to arrest a governm...