British health minister Matt Hancock quit on Saturday after he was caught breaking COVID-19 rules by kissing and embracing an aide in his office, enraging colleagues and the public who have been livin...

The Canadians are among the more than 150 people who remain missing following the deadly collapse of a 12-storey condo tower in a Florida shore town, where rescuers are working around the clock in ho...

The COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of 2020 Pride events in Canada and around the world. But as more people get vaccinated and cases of infections trend downward, some communities have been ...

The U.S. drug regulator on Friday added a warning to the literature that accompanies Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine shots to indicate the rare risk of heart inflammation after its use. ...

Canada's chief public health officer received her second COVID-19 vaccine dose on Saturday, this time being jabbed with a Moderna shot after being first inoculated with Pfizer-BioNTech. ...

The mass return of Tour de France fans coincided with chaos and crashes while world cycling champion Julian Alaphilippe avoided most of the carnage to win the opening stage with a punchy attack on Sat...

Two summers ago, in the heat of Hong Kong's massive street demonstrations when pro-democracy protesters faced off against police, journalists from the opposition Apple Daily were always on the front ...

Finnish health authorities have detected a spike in coronavirus cases that has been traced to soccer fans returning from neighboring Russia following European Championship matches in St. Petersburg. ...

With nearly 160 people unaccounted for and at least four dead after a seaside condominium tower collapsed into a heap of twisted metal and concrete, rescuers used both heavy equipment and their own ha...

As theatres reopen in eligible provinces across the country, summer blockbusters are expected to play a key role in rehabilitating domestic box office revenues after a major decline in sales during th...

A U.S. government report on UFOs issued on Friday said defence and intelligence analysts lack sufficient data to determine the nature of mysterious flying objects observed by military pilots, includi...

Iran criticized as "highly politicized" on Friday a report by a special Canadian forensic team that accused the country of incompetence and recklessness over the downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane...

Billionaire Richard Branson's spaceship company Virgin Galactic said on Friday it received approval from the U.S. aviation safety regulator to fly people to space, turning up the pressure on rivals i...

The head of the World Health Organization says the COVID-19 variant first seen in India, also known as the delta variant, is "the most transmissible of the variants identified so far" and is now sprea...

A rare tornado and strong storms struck along the Czech Republic's southern border on Thursday, destroying parts of some towns, killing at least three people and injuring dozens more, emergency servic...

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made it official Thursday that she is creating a special committee to investigate the attack on the Capitol, saying it is "imperative that we seek the truth." ...

The United Nations heritage agency may move Venice to its list of endangered sites if the historic city continues to allow massive cruise ships to dock in his fragile canals. 

Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. now are in people who weren't vaccinated, a staggering demonstration of how effective the shots have been and an indication that deaths per day — currently dow...

U.S. President Joe Biden vowed on Thursday that Afghans who helped the U.S. military "are not going to be left behind" as his administration stepped up planning to evacuate thousands of Afghan interp...