Taiwan has sharply criticized China after Beijing marked the founding of the People's Republic of China with the largest-ever incursion by the Chinese air force into the island's air defence zone. ...

Canada's ambassador to China was in an unusual setting on Friday: the White House. The visit happened without fanfare. It comes amid a broad rethink in Washington about future relations with China —...

Ozy Media is shutting down less than a week after a story in the New York Times raised questions about the media organization's claims of millions of viewers and readers, while also pointing out a pot...

Britain's pig farmers on Friday warned of a crisis unless the government took urgent steps to ease an acute shortage of abattoir workers and butchers that has left up to 150,000 pigs backed up on farm...

National Women's Soccer League commissioner Lisa Baird resigned after some 19 months on the job amid allegations that a former coach engaged in sexual harassment and misconduct.

Mikheil Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia, was arrested after returning to the country following years abroad, the government said Friday, a move that came as the ex-leader sought to mobili...

California is poised to impose the country's first coronavirus vaccine mandate for schoolchildren, a move announced Friday that could push other states to follow as many did after Gov. Gavin Newsom or...

An erupting volcano on a Spanish island off northwest Africa blew open two more fissures on its cone Friday that belched forth lava, with authorities reporting "intense" activity in the area. ...

The largest city in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates kicked off its world's fair on Thursday night. The event, which was delayed a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic but retained its original name, ru...

After eight years of planning and billions of dollars in spending, the Middle East's first ever world's fair opened on Friday in Dubai, with hopes the months-long extravaganza draws both visitors and ...

Merck & Co. said Friday that its experimental COVID-19 pill reduced hospitalizations and deaths by half in people recently infected with the coronavirus and that it would soon ask health officials in ...

A group of more than 20 current and former employees are accusing Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin rocket ship company of having a toxic work environment and not adhering to proper safety protocols. ...

One of France's biggest unsolved criminal cases appears to have been cracked — the decades-long hunt for a suspect in at least six rapes and four killings during the 1980s and 1990s led to a former ...

While India provides public health care, the system is chronically underfunded — and there's a growing dependence on private hospitals, with a large proportion of Indians forced to pay bills out of...

The stakes are high as plays and musicals return to the Broadway stage after the pandemic shutdown, but already there have been setbacks.

North Korea said Friday it test-fired a new anti-aircraft missile, the fourth weapons launch in recent weeks, which experts say is part of a strategy to win relief from sanctions and other concessions...

One of the most active volcanos on Earth is erupting again, for the first time since May 2021. Experts say the eruption is expected to stay within the crater, and there are no indications of lava movi...

The U.S. has now surpassed 700,000 coronavirus-related deaths, according to a tally maintained by Johns Hopkins University. It has also recorded more than 43 million cases of COVID-19 since the pandem...

Peter Nygard has signed a consent form agreeing to begin the process of being extradited to the United States to face charges there, Manitoba's Court of Queen's Bench heard Friday morning. ...

Canada's environment minister Jonathan Wilkinson is in Milan this week to try to cajole, wrangle or otherwise arm-twist richer nations into paying into a climate mitigation fund for developing countri...