The recommendation by an Israeli panel to administer a fourth vaccine to those who are over 60 is being met with a tepid response by some of the country's medical experts, who believe more data is n...

Pope Francis celebrated Christmas Eve mass before an estimated 1,500 people in St. Peter's Basilica on Friday, going ahead with the service despite a resurgence in COVID-19 cases in Italy that has pro...

At least three major airlines have reported cancelling dozens of flights as illnesses largely tied to the Omicron variant of the coronavirus take a toll on flight crew numbers during the busy holiday ...

Hard times can bring out the very best in people, as one Baltimore neighbourhood found out last Christmas.

Canada's long-standing, stalwart support of Ukraine will be under new and intense pressure early in the new year as the West braces for possible military action by Russia, perhaps as soon as late Janu...

A musician from New York accuses Sex and the City actor Chris Noth of groping her nearly 20 years ago and threatening to ruin her career if she told anyone about their encounter, accusations that c...

Thailand's Central Group and Austrian real estate group Signa said Friday they plan to buy luxury British department store chain Selfridges.

As people across the globe celebrate the holiday season, these are some of the biggest and brightest displays from popular cities.

Two more Hong Kong universities on Friday removed public monuments to the 1989 Tiananmen protests in Beijing, following on the heels of the dismantling of a sculpture marking victims of the crackd...

Provinces on Friday continued to set record highs for COVID-19 cases, with Ontario reporting 9,571 and Quebec's open data portal adding slightly more than 10,000 new cases. B.C., Manitoba, New Brunswi...

Suga, whose real name is Min Yoon-gi, was confirmed to have contracted the virus on Friday during his self quarantine upon his return home from the U.S. on Thursday, according to Big Hit Music. ...

Los Angeles police fatally shot a 14-year-old girl who was inside a clothing store dressing room on Thursday as they fired at a suspect who had assaulted a woman earlier, authorities said. ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the West on Thursday to move quickly to meet Russia's demand for security guarantees precluding NATO's expansion to Ukraine and the deployment of the military al...

A massive fire swept through a crowded river ferry in southern Bangladesh early Friday, leaving at least 37 dead and 72 injured, as passengers jumped off the vessel and swam to the shore, officials sa...

Jurors on Thursday convicted former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter of two manslaughter charges in the killing of Daunte Wright, a Black motorist she shot during an April traffic stop after she sa...

The South Korean government said Friday it will grant a special pardon to former president Park Geun-hye, who is serving a lengthy prison term for bribery and other crimes.

Japan announced Friday it won't send a delegation of ministers to represent the government at the Beijing Games but three Olympic officials will attend, a mixed response to a U.S.-led move to boycott ...

Under pressure from U.S. auto safety regulators, Tesla has agreed to stop allowing video games to be played on centre touch screens while its vehicles are moving.

Author and essayist Joan Didion, whose precise social and personal commentary in such classics as The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking made her a uniquely clear-eyed critic of turbulent ti...

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.