A monument at a Hong Kong university that commemorates the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre was removed by workers early Thursday over the objections of its creator from Denmark.

China is redoubling efforts to control new virus outbreaks with a lockdown of the 13 million residents of the northern city of Xi'an following a spike in coronavirus cases.

South Africa's noticeable drop in new COVID-19 cases in recent days may signal that the country's dramatic Omicron-driven surge has passed its peak, medical experts say.

Authorities in Nigeria have destroyed about one million expired doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine even as the West African country's vaccination rate has almost doubled in the last week amid a spi...

The U.S. has opened a formal investigation into Tesla allowing drivers to play video games on a centre touch screen while its vehicles are moving.

Scientists say an amazingly well-preserved fossil egg adds more evidence to the close links between dinosaurs and modern birds.

Dozens of people are feared missing after a landslide early on Wednesday at a jade mine in northern Myanmar, according to a civil society group and media reports.

The U.S. economy grew at a 2.3 per cent rate in the third quarter, slightly better than previously thought, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. But prospects for a solid rebound going forward are...

A British court on Tuesday ordered the ruler of Dubai to pay his ex-wife and their children close to 550 million pounds (roughly $942 million Cdn), in one of the most expensive divorce settlements in ...

Omicron is now the dominant version of the coronavirus in the U.S., racing ahead of all others, and accounting for 73 per cent of new infections last week, federal health officials said Monday. ...

A single U.S. senator detonated a political bombshell by refusing to back the U.S. president's Build Back Better bill. The wide-ranging blast radius has touched his political party, his country, and ...

This was supposed to be the year that international tourism bounced back, but the Omicron variant is changing that. And for many in Goa, India, who depend on tourist dollars for their income, the pand...

Kellogg's employees who have been on strike since early October have voted to ratify a tentative labour contract at the company's four U.S. cereal plants.

Britain's main nurses' union warned Monday that exhaustion and surging coronavirus cases among medical staff are pushing them to the breaking point, adding to pressure on the government for new restri...

Captive missionaries in Haiti found freedom last week by making a daring overnight escape, eluding their kidnappers and walking for kilometres over difficult, moonlit terrain with an infant and other ...

Canada and other countries were hoping a U.S. senator might kill a controversial electric-vehicle tax credit that has angered America's trading partners. Sen. Joe Manchin may be planning to torpedo th...

Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai said on Sunday that she had never accused anyone of sexually assaulting her, and that a social media post she had made early last month had been misunderstood. ...

Rebellious Tigrayan forces fighting the central government are withdrawing from neighbouring regions in northern Ethiopia, a spokesperson for the Tigrayan forces said on Monday, a step toward a possi...

Israeli ministers on Monday agreed to ban travel to the United States, Canada and eight other countries amid the rapid, global spread of the Omicron variant.

A leftist millennial who rose to prominence during anti-government student protests was elected Chile's next president Sunday after a bruising campaign against a free-market firebrand likened to Donal...