New U.S. studies released Friday show COVID-19 vaccines remained highly effective against hospitalizations and death even as the extra-contagious delta variant swept the country.

A federal judge in the U.S. ordered Apple to dismantle part of the competitive barricade guarding its closely run App Store, threatening one of the iPhone maker's biggest moneymakers.

Ten more Canadians were evacuated from Afghanistan today on a civilian flight bound for Qatar, Canadian officials say.

Much of the United States is preparing to mark the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in both New York City and Washington.

BioNTech is set to request approval across the globe to use its COVID-19 vaccine in children as young as five over the next few weeks and preparations for a launch are on track, the biotech firm's tw...

The U.S. has halted all U.S.-bound flights of Afghan evacuees from two main bases overseas after discovering a limited measles outbreak among Afghans arriving in the United States, a hitch that Americ...

Queen Elizabeth II and the Royal Family back the Black Lives Matter movement, said one of her senior representatives in a television interview with Channel 4 News to be broadcast Friday. ...

Lebanon's new Prime Minister Najib Mikati pledged Friday to do everything in his power to halt the country's dramatic economic collapse, urging fractious politicians to work together after a new gover...

Twenty years after the nation-rattling attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, some of the American veterans affected reflect on their legacy.

U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday said he will require all federal employees and contractors to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and the U.S. Department of Labour will issue a rule requiring busines...

Tens of thousands of people in Afghanistan were airlifted out of the country last month as the Taliban swept to power. Many more are still trying to escape. Here's a look at where the country's refuge...

The Biden administration on Thursday sued Texas, in an effort to block enforcement of a new law that almost entirely bans abortion in the state.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday said he never intended to attack any branch of the government, comments that boosted markets as he sought to defuse a dispute with the Supreme Court. ...

Some 200 foreigners, including Canadians and Americans, left Afghanistan on a commercial flight out of Kabul on Thursday with the co-operation of the Taliban — the first such large-scale departure s...

With U.K. roads clogged to pre-pandemic levels and ridership on London’s subway soaring, many people are acting as if the pandemic is over - even though there are now 40,000 new COVID-19 cases a day...

A private security company in Kabul founded by an ex-member of JTF2, the elite counter-terrorism unit of the Canadian Forces, is credited with rescuing more than 100 Afghans with ties to Canada. ...

Researchers who estimate how much of the world's coal, oil and natural gas reserves should be left unburned to slow the increase in climate-changing gases in the atmosphere have come up with a new, bi...

Japan's prime minister announces an extension of a state of emergency in Tokyo and 18 other areas until the end of September, saying health-care systems remain under severe strain, and that the contin...

Hong Kong police on Thursday raided the premises of the closed June 4th Museum, dedicated to the victims of China's 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Squar...

Moderna Inc. said on Thursday it was developing a single-dose vaccine that combines a booster dose against COVID-19 and a booster against flu, a day after Novavax announced its own plans. ...