Queen Elizabeth has sprained her back and will not attend the Remembrance Sunday service in central London to remember Britain's war dead, Buckingham Palace says.

A group of about 50 migrants broke through defences on the border with Belarus and entered Poland near the village of Starzyna, police say, as the situation on the frontier becomes increasingly tense....

Several countries at the UN climate change conference in Scotland said they were deeply disappointed by the move to change the language in the final pact to "phase down," rather than "phase out" coal ...

A prolonged gunbattle between rival gangs inside Ecuador's largest prison killed at least 68 inmates and wounded 25 on Saturday, while authorities said it took most of the day to regain control at the...

Sudanese security forces fired live ammunition and tear gas on Saturday to disperse protesters denouncing the military's tightening grip on the country, killing at least five and wounding several othe...

As COVID-19 numbers rise in parts of northern Ontario, the federal government has approved the province’s request to again enlist the military to help distribute vaccines in remote communities there...

What Canadian rapper Drake might have known about the tragedy unfolding at the Astroworld concert in Houston before he took the stage has made him a defendant in some of the scores of lawsuits launche...

After six years of failed efforts, COP26 could produce a long-awaited deal on global carbon-trading rules, which could help countries and companies cut emissions while also driving investment into low...

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 ...