In the fight to curb climate change, several major coal-using nations announced steps Thursday to wean themselves — at times slowly — off of the heavily polluting fossil fuel.

A former senior associate athletic director at the University of Southern California is expected to plead guilty on Friday to participating in a vast fraud and bribery scheme for wealthy parents' chil...

Gunmen opened fire at a Cancun beach resort on Thursday, killing two people in what Mexican state officials called a confrontation between rival drug dealers that witnesses said forced tourists and...

The selection of a nearly all-white jury to decide the fate of three Georgia men charged with the 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, has forced concerns about racial fairness to th...

Britain has granted a conditional authorization to Merck's coronavirus antiviral, the first pill shown to successfully treat COVID-19. It is the first country to OK the treatment, although it was not ...

COVID-19 deaths are rising in Russia — but vaccination rates aren't. Experts believe more transparent data and more trust would motivate more people to get the shot.

Urgent new efforts to calm Ethiopia's escalating war were unfolding Thursday as a U.S. special envoy visits and the president of neighbouring Kenya called for an immediate ceasefire while the country...

The woman in charge of weapons on the movie set where actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins said Wednesday night that she had inspected the gun Baldwin shot, but doesn't know...

Chinese authorities seem to have squelched virtually all online discussion of sexual assault accusations apparently made by a Chinese professional tennis star against a former top government official....

A spike in health-care spending during the COVID-19 pandemic could lead to some serious financial challenges for provinces as they work to rebuild their health systems in the aftermath, according to t...

The U.S. central bank has begun to cut monetary stimulus as the economy continues to crank out jobs. But supply bottlenecks and the delta variant make predictions difficult.

The International Criminal Court is opening a formal investigation into allegations of torture and extrajudicial killings committed by Venezuelan security forces under President Nicolas Maduro's rule....

An independent Pentagon review has concluded that the U.S. drone strike that killed innocent Kabul civilians and children in the final days of the Afghanistan war was not caused by misconduct or negli...

Democrats weren't the only losers in elections held Tuesday in the U.S. So was a Canadian-led energy project, rejected by voters in a state referendum. It's not an oil pipeline this time. It's a Hydro...

Glenn Youngkin won the Virginia governor's race early Wednesday, tapping into culture war fights over schools and race to unite former president Donald Trump's most fervent supporters with enough subu...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed pledged on Wednesday to bury his government's enemies "with our blood" as he marked the start of the war in the Tigray region one year ago.

A $6-billion US donation from Space X founder Elon Musk may help stave off starvation for millions currently facing famine, but it certainly would not "solve world hunger," experts say. ...

Former world No.1 tennis doubles player Peng Shuai, one of China's biggest sporting stars, has publicly accused a former Chinese vice-premier of forcing her into sex several years ago in a social medi...

The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control endorsed an advisory panel's earlier recommendation that the vaccine be provided to children across the United States.

Rescuers combed through the rubble of a highrise building in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, in search of survivors on Tuesday, a day after it collapsed while under construction, as the death tol...