The United States government has announced it will investigate its history of Indian boarding schools and work to identify children who died in the institutions.

In 1946, U.S. diplomat George F. Kennan authored a secret document about Russia that would cool international relations and help launch the Cold War. Seventy five years later, Kennan's Long Telegram s...

At the UN in Geneva on Tuesday, China and its allies called for a UN investigation into crimes against Indigenous people in Canada — just moments before Canada and its allies called on China to allo...

How do astronauts do laundry in space? They don't. Instead, astronauts throw away tons of dirty clothes every year. NASA wants to change that, so they're teaming up with Proctor & Gamble Co. to figure...

The Great Barrier Reef should be added to a list of World Heritage Sites that are "in danger," a United Nations panel said on Tuesday, drawing an angry response from Australia, which called the recomm...

The U.S. government is stepping up efforts to get younger Americans vaccinated for COVID-19 as concerns grow about the spread of a new variant that threatens to set the country back in the months ahea...

The Eyeharp converts eye movements on a computer screen to notes plucked on an electronic instrument.

Turkey is developing a domestic vaccine named "Turkovac" by President Tayyip Erdogan. The vaccine entered into phase three clinical trials on Tuesday and should be available for use by the end of the ...

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said his government will pardon the nine jailed leaders of Catalonia's failed 2017 independence bid on Tuesday, saying that seeking reconciliation with the region ...

Las Vegas Raiders defensive lineman Carl Nassib revealed in an Instagram post on Monday that he is gay, making him the NFL's only openly gay active player. Nassib, who came out during Pride Month, is ...

More than 8,500 children were used as soldiers last year in various conflicts across the world and nearly 2,700 others were killed, the United Nations said on Monday.

The coelacanth — a wondrous fish that was thought to have gone extinct along with the dinosaurs 66 million years ago before unexpectedly being found alive and well in 1938 off South Africa's east...

Nova Scotia reported two new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday as it announced it is opening its provincial boundaries on Wednesday to travellers from the Atlantic provinces, but with modified rules for th...

Claudette regained tropical storm status and headed out to sea from the North Carolina coast Monday, less than two days after the system killed 14 people in Alabama, including nine children who died i...

Iran's president-elect said Monday he would not meet with U.S. President Joe Biden nor negotiate over Tehran's ballistic missile program and its support of regional militias, sticking to a hard-line p...

The United Nations rights chief said on Monday she was "deeply disturbed" by continued reports of rights violations in Tigray, Ethiopia, including executions of civilians, sexual violence against chil...

With the arrival of Lilibet (Lili) Diana Mountbatten-Windsor earlier this month, the daughter of Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has a name that reflects both tradition and an emerging tre...

Jon Rahm is the first Spaniard to win the U.S. Open. Two monumental birdie putts clinched it

Thousands took to the streets across Brazil to protest against President Jair Bolsonaro's pandemic response as the country surpassed 500,000 deaths from COVID-19 on Saturday.

Parades, picnics and lessons in history were part of Juneteenth celebrations on Saturday in the United States, a day that carried even more significance after Congress and President Joe Biden created ...