Negotiators have streamed into the venue for the UN climate talks, hoping that a good night's sleep would help them seal a deal that could credibly be said to boost the world's efforts to tackle glob...

Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former U.S. president Donald Trump, was indicted Friday on two counts of contempt of Congress after he defied a congressional subpoena from the House committee investi...

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....

Glen M. de Vries, who travelled to space with Star Trek actor William Shatner last month, was killed along with another person when the small plane they were flying in crashed in a wooded area of nort...

The Dutch government announced a three-week partial lockdown on Friday amid soaring COVID-19 cases that are putting the country's health-care sector under renewed strain.

A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Friday sentenced detained U.S. journalist Danny Fenster to 11 years in prison with hard labour after finding him guilty on several charges, including incitement fo...

Thousands marched in Warsaw on Thursday to mark Poland's Independence Day, led by far-right groups calling for strong borders, while its troops blocked hundreds of new attempts by migrants to enter th...

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...

Leading sponsors of the Beijing Winter Olympics should explain why they remain largely silent about alleged human rights abuses in China with the Games opening there in just under three months, Human ...

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. ...