The Taliban completed their sweep of Afghanistan's south on Friday, taking four more provincial capitals in a lightning offensive that is gradually encircling Kabul, just weeks before the U.S. is set ...

Twenty-seven people aboard a Carnival cruise tested positive for COVID-19 just before the ship made a stop in Belize City this week, according to the Belize Tourism Board.

Police have identified Jake Davison, 22, as the man who killed five people in Plymouth, southwest England, then took his own life in Britain's first mass shooting in over a decade. Authorities said th...

The Taliban now control all but four of Afghanistan's major cities, and Canadian officials are preparing for the capital Kabul to fall imminently.

A rapidly growing number of places across the U.S. are requiring people to show proof they have been inoculated against COVID-19 to teach at schools, work at hospitals, see concerts or eat inside res...

Fires stoked by hot winds swept through southern Italy on Thursday, a day after a monitoring station in Sicily reported temperatures of 48.8 Celsius, which some scientists believe could be the highest...

In a major blow to New Zealand's small but vibrant screen industry, Amazon Studios announced Friday it would move filming of the second season of its Lord of the Rings series to Britain. ...

Turkish officials say search-and-rescue crews have recovered 10 more bodies overnight, raising the death toll from the severe floods and mudslides that struck the north of the country to 27 on Friday....

British sprinter CJ Ujah, who was part of the team which won a silver medal in the men’s 4.100-metre relay event, has been provisionally suspended by the Athletic’s Integrity Unit (AIU) after test...

The Taliban captured two major Afghan cities — the country's second- and third-largest after Kabul — and a strategic provincial capital on Thursday, further squeezing the embattled government just...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday authorized a booster dose of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer Inc and Moderna Inc for people with compromised immune systems.

Dr. Anthony Fauci says Americans can expect to see more children infected with the coronavirus as the highly transmissible delta variant extends its hold across the country.

Authorities in northern Germany appealed to thousands of people on Tuesday to get another shot of COVID-19 vaccine after a police investigation found that a Red Cross nurse may have injected them with...

London's top police official said Thursday that the city's police department is reviewing its files but not opening an investigation of Britain's Prince Andrew, who faces sexual assault allegations in...

The good news is that scientists have a better handle on asteroid Bennu's whereabouts for the next 200 years. The bad news is that the space rock has a slightly greater chance of clobbering Earth than...

The latest UN climate report this week raised the alarm over “irreversible,” long-term impacts of climate change that will continue for centuries even if we stop emitting CO2 now. The good news is...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging all pregnant women to get the COVID-19 vaccine as infections rise in hotspots.

Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau said today that the 11-year sentence a Chinese court gave Michael Spavor — one of two Canadians detained in China in what are widely seen as acts of retali...

The U.S. government said Wednesday it will deliver nearly 837,000 Pfizer vaccines to Caribbean nations as the region with limited resources struggles with a spike in COVID-19 cases amid violent anti-v...

The Emmy Awards ceremony for achievement in television was moved outdoors on Tuesday in the latest setback to live events because of rising concerns over the coronavirus pandemic.