A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday night allowed Texas to temporarily resume banning most abortions, just one day after clinics across the state began rushing to serve patients again for the first...

The United States will accept international visitors inoculated with COVID-19 vaccines authorized by U.S. regulators or the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s...

Data from Brazil's Health Ministry indicated Friday that the country has now seen more than 600,000 deaths from COVID-19.

An Islamic State suicide bomber struck at a mosque packed with Shia Muslim worshippers in northern Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 46 people and wounding dozens in the latest security chal...

Under the agreement announced Friday, countries would enact a global minimum corporate tax of 15 per cent on the biggest, internationally active firms, reaping an estimated $150 billion US for governm...

U.S. President Joe Biden is not asserting executive privilege over a tranche of documents sought by a House committee's investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, setting up a showdown...

German police are investigating several cases of the mysterious "Havana syndrome" at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin. The illness is believed to have affected around 200 U.S. officials and family members a...

Journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their fight for freedom of expression in countries where reporters have faced persi...

Former U.S. president Donald Trump's businesses tried to hide millions of dollars in payments from foreign governments that flowed through his unprofitable hotel in downtown Washington, D.C., a U.S. c...

The number of Americans getting COVID-19 vaccines has steadily increased to a three-month high as seniors and people with medical conditions seek boosters, and government and employer mandates push mo...

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.

Abuse allegations made by National Women's Soccer League players against authority figures are symptomatic of a sports culture that prioritizes winning over anything else and thus limits player power,...

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...

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.