A sightseeing plane crashed Thursday in the area of Misty Fjords National Monument in southeast Alaska, killing all six people on board, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

Some Afghan interpreters who risked their lives to flee the country are considering a dangerous new journey back into Afghanistan in the hopes of qualifying for resettlement in Canada.

Amazon has pushed back its return-to-office date for tech and corporate workers until January 2022 as COVID-19 cases surge nationally due to the delta variant.

Seven U.S. states with the lowest COVID-19 vaccination rates account for half of the country's new cases and hospitalizations in the last week, the White House said on Thursday.

A three-week-old wildfire engulfed a tiny Northern California mountain town, levelling most of its historic downtown and leaving blocks of homes in ashes as crews braced for another explosive run o...

Do Olympic athletes get any financial compensation for winning a medal? What are they made of? Why are Russian athletes competing but not Russia? And why the name change for synchronized swimming?Â...

Belarusian Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, fearing reprisals back home after publicly criticizing her coaches at Tokyo 2020, used her phone to translate a plea for help at an airport in Japa...

Investigators say an overloaded van carrying about 25 migrants has crashed on a remote south Texas highway, killing at least 11 people, including the driver, and injuring more than a dozen others. ...

President Joe Biden has announced a commitment from U.S. carmakers that electric vehicles will make up as much as half of their sales by the end of the decade.

Israel, Germany and France will go ahead with COVID-19 vaccine boosters from September, disregarding an appeal by the World Health Organization to hold off until more people are vaccinated across the ...

Scientists are finalizing a long-awaited UN report updating the scientific consensus on climate change and the increasing risks it poses across the world. Here's what to look for when it comes out on ...

Australia's government on Thursday pledged the equivalent of $1 billion Cdn to address what is called Indigenous disadvantage, including compensation to thousands of mixed-race children who were taken...

Security forces fired water cannons and tear gas at protesters near Lebanon's parliament building on Wednesday as the country marked the first anniversary of the catastrophic explosion in Beirut po...

The parents of a three-year-old girl who was killed in an explosion in Beirut say the same people who caused the tragedy remain in power one year later.

Thousands of firefighters have prepared for a tougher fight against California's largest wildfire as extremely dangerous weather returns, threatening to stoke flames into explosive growth. ...

World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday that WHO is calling for a moratorium on COVID-19 vaccine booster shots until at least the end of September.

The Grammy Awards will adopt an inclusion rider that will require producers to recruit and hire more diverse candidates backstage and in front of the camera for next year's ceremony.

Belarusian Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who feared for her safety at home after criticizing her coaches on social media, flew into Warsaw on Wednesday night on a humanitarian visa after l...

With climate change threatening the sea ice habitat of Emperor penguins, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday announced a proposal to list the species as threatened under the Endangered Speci...

The British navy says the hijackers who boarded a vessel off the coast of the United Arab Emirates in the Gulf of Oman have left the targeted ship, reviving fears of an escalation in the region. ...