As international tension simmered this week over Taiwan, there was a not-so-subtle display of allied military solidarity in the Pacific — one that included a Canadian frigate.

Video of the ruptured pipeline that spilled tens of thousands of litres of crude oil off Southern California shows a thin crack along the top of the pipe that could indicate a slow leak that initially...

A powerful magnitude 5.9 earthquake shook the Tokyo area on Thursday night, injuring more than 30 people, damaging underground water pipes and halting trains and subways.

Pfizer asked the U.S. government Thursday to allow the use of its COVID-19 vaccine in children ages five to 11 — and if regulators agree, shots could begin within a matter of weeks.

Terrified drivers climbed out of swamped cars and muddy floodwater flowed through neighbourhoods after a stalled weather front drenched Alabama for hours, leaving entire communities under water Thursd...

The panel, created by the state House earlier this year, aims to gather data and identify the reasons behind the problem. Few figures exist, but those that do suggest Native Hawaiians are disproportio...

U.K.-based Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose experience of crossing continents and cultures has fed his novels about the impact of migration on individuals and societies, won the Nobel Prize i...

As Manitoba reports its highest single-day caseload since June, Saskatchewan is activating its emergency operations centre to lead its response to record levels of COVID-19.

If the U.S. Supreme Court soon overturns the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, the country could see archipelagos of abortion access — and the next battle will be over travel across state lines for pro...

The airport on the Spanish island of La Palma shut down again Thursday because of ashfall from a volcano that has been erupting for almost three weeks.

A powerful earthquake collapsed at least one coal mine and many flimsy mud houses in southwest Pakistan early Thursday, killing at least 23 people and injuring more than 200, an official said. ...

Israel’s fierce fourth wave of COVID-19 cases may be in retreat, but the country is on the offensive against the virus once again — with an unprecedented round of vaccine boosters for everyone old...

Some of the crude oil that spilled from a pipeline into the waters off Southern California has been breaking up naturally in ocean currents, a U.S. Coast Guard official said Wednesday as authorities s...

Live streaming video service Twitch has been hacked in a breach that has exposed the financial information of some of the people who use it.

The ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, hacked the phones of his ex-wife Princess Haya and her attorneys during the legal battle over custody of their two children, Britain's High C...

Malaria kills hundreds of thousands of people every year, mostly children under five. The World Health Organization is endorsing Mosquirix, the only approved vaccine against the disease, in addition t...

With record numbers of military flights near Taiwan over the last week, China has been showing a new intensity and military sophistication as it steps up its harassment of the island it claims as its ...

Several cities in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil were overrun by sandstorms this week, causing damage to housing and knocking down trees.

NATO has expelled eight members of Russia's mission to the military alliance, saying that they were secretly working as intelligence officers. It also halved the size of Moscow's team able to work at ...

An increasing number of severely malnourished children from the Afghan countryside are flocking to a Kabul children's hospital after international aid for rural clinics dried up.