Women's rights advocates will join 660 marches planned around the United States on Saturday to protest against recent efforts to restrict abortion access, including a new Texas law that bans aborti...

A joint European-Japanese spacecraft got its first glimpse of Mercury as it swung by the solar system's innermost planet while on a mission to deliver two probes into orbit in 2025.

Hundreds of hot-air balloons created a colourful tapestry against a blue sky Saturday in New Mexico's largest city, kicking off a nine-day annual event that was cancelled last year due to the pandemic...

The resolution of the extradition case against Meng Wanzhou raises questions about the legal fate of Canadian Robert Schellenberg, who many believe was sentenced to death in China as retaliation f...

More than 5,000 people protested Saturday in Romania's capital of Bucharest to reject upcoming measures used by authorities to combat an alarming surge of COVID-19 infections.

Help from the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) to combat Alberta's critical COVID-19 situation is expected to arrive on Monday, the federal government said on Saturday.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says he is backing out of an announced plan to run for vice-president in next year's elections and will retire from politics after his term ends.

Former U.S. president Donald Trump asked a federal judge in Florida on Friday to ask Twitter to restore his account, which the company removed in January citing a risk of incitement of violence. ...

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. ...