The U.S. and Canadian governments are each urging their citizens to leave Haiti because of the country's deepening insecurity and a severe lack of fuel that has affected hospitals, schools and banks....

Russia sent two nuclear-capable strategic bombers on a training mission over Belarus for a second straight day on Thursday in a strong show of Moscow's support for its ally amid a dispute over migrati...

The defence has rested its case at the homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, setting the stage for closing arguments in the Kenosha protest shootings that left Americans divided over whether he was a p...

A SpaceX capsule carrying four astronauts pulled up Thursday at the International Space Station, their new home until spring.

A French man has been sentenced to life in prison for stabbing an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor to death in an antisemitic attack, a case that triggered widespread outrage and called attention to res...

F.W. de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela and as South Africa's last apartheid president oversaw the end of the country's white minority rule, has died at the age of 85. ...

Rivian Automotive, an electric vehicle company that has so far delivered only about 150 electric pickup trucks mostly to its own employees, surpassed General Motors Thursday to become the second most ...

French police released Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Aminata Diallo from custody Thursday without charge but are still investigating an attack on one of her teammates, prosecutors said. ...

A U.S. federal appeals court has temporarily blocked the release of records sought by a U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol as the court considers an emergency re...

A 22-year-old college senior who was critically injured at the Astroworld music festival in Houston last week has died, the family's lawyer said Thursday, bringing the total number of fatalities resul...

Cash-strapped developer China Evergrande Group once again averted a destabilizing default with a last minute bond payment but the reprieve did little to alleviate strains in the country's wider proper...

A judge this week could end the conservatorship that has controlled Britney Spears's life and money for nearly 14 years.

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres says the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 C is "on life support" as UN climate talks enter their final days, but he added that "until the last ...

Tesla shares rose on Thursday after filings revealed chief executive officer Elon Musk had sold about $5 billion US of the stock over the past few days, following his much-hyped Twitter poll. ...

Security forces in Poland were tasked Thursday with securing the nation's eastern border amid a migration fight with Belarus while also protecting the capital and other cities during Independence Day ...

One of the three white men standing trial for the death of Ahmaud Arbery said they had the 25-year-old Black man "trapped like a rat" before he was fatally shot, a police investigator testified Wednes...

The German government on Wednesday accused Belarus of "state-run smuggling and trafficking" of human lives by luring desperate migrants to the Polish border — the edge of the European Union — wher...

U.S. leaders, including President Joe Biden and former president Barack Obama, have accused China of not pulling its weight at the UN climate summit. Long-time China watchers say such finger-pointing ...

A U.S. judge on Wednesday approved a $626 million US settlement for Flint. Mich., residents and others who were exposed to lead-contaminated water. The state was accused of repeatedly overlooking the ...

A former mixed martial artist filmed punching a police officer during the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol received a 41-month prison sentence on Wednesday, the stiffest punishment yet in the ...