A suicide bomber attacked a restaurant and bar Saturday as patrons gathered on Christmas Day, killing at least six others in an eastern Congolese town where Islamist extremists are known to be active....

Queen Elizabeth offered a particularly personal message on Saturday for her annual Christmas Day address, her first since the death of her husband, Prince Philip.

Scottish singer Tom Walker praised the piano skills of the Duchess of Cambridge after the pair recorded a Christmas tune that was shown during a carol concert.

U.S. airlines dropped over 900 flights Saturday, the second straight day of massive cancellations as surging COVID-19 infections sidelined some pilots and other crew, upending plans for tens of thousa...

Scientists have declared the eruption on Spain's La Palma is officially over, allowing islanders to breathe a sigh of relief after nearly 100 days. But a mammoth cleanup operation is just getting unde...

British police have arrested a 19-year-old they say was armed with a weapon on the grounds of Windsor Castle in the English county of Berkshire on Saturday. The Queen is spending the holidays at the c...

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...