Hong Kong police have formally charged two people from an online pro-democracy news outlet with sedition, a day after the outlet said it would cease operations following a police raid on its office an...

A U.S. jury reached a guilty verdict on five of six charges in the trial of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who was accused of helping late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenaged...

China is urging the United States to protect a Chinese space station and its three-member crew after Beijing complained that satellites launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX nearly struck the station. ...

Relatives of a 14-year-old girl who was killed last week by Los Angeles police while shopping for Christmas clothes say the family moved from Chile to get away from violence and injustice. ...

Aspiring top dogs (and their owners) will have to wait for the annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show next year, the organization says, pointing to surging COVID-19 cases in New York as the reason fo...

A man accused of killing five people in a rampage in Denver is believed to have written fictional books self-published online that named some of his real-life victims and described similar attacks. ...

A court in Moscow on Wednesday granted a request to shut down another prominent human rights organization amid a sweeping crackdown on Russian rights groups, independent media and opposition supporter...

Daily COVID-19 infections have hit record highs in the United States, parts of Canada and swaths of Europe and Australia as the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus races out of control, keeping wor...

Sudanese authorities said Wednesday rescue workers retrieved at least 31 bodies from a collapsed gold mine in West Kordofan province.

A bird flu outbreak in northern Israel has killed at least 5,200 migratory cranes and forced farmers to slaughter hundreds of thousands of chickens.

High waters are not uncommon in Dernau, Germany, but on July 14, 2021, they reached a record height of seven metres, as torrential rains turned the Ahr River into a forceful rush of water that swept a...

Western nations, including Canada, should brace themselves for the possibility of increased cyber and ransomware attacks if current tensions between Ukraine and Russia become worse — or even explod...

John Madden, the Hall of Fame coach turned broadcaster whose exuberant calls combined with simple explanations provided a weekly soundtrack to NFL games for three decades, died Tuesday morning, the NF...

The decision by U.S. health officials to shorten the recommended COVID-19 isolation and quarantine period from 10 days to five is drawing criticism from some medical experts.

Harry Reid, the former U.S. Senate majority leader and Nevada's longest-serving member of Congress, has died. He was 82.

Russia's Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that one of the country's oldest and most prominent human rights organizations should be shut down.

Hundreds of thousands of people in the Philippines, Asia's largest Roman Catholic country, marked the Christmas season without homes, adequate food and water, electricity and cellphone connections aft...

At least 38 people were killed Tuesday when a defunct gold mine collapsed in Sudan's West Kordofan province, according to authorities.

As COVID-19 cases continued to rise in Quebec on Tuesday, with 12,833 new cases and 15 additional deaths, the health minister said health-care workers who test positive will be able to continue to wo...

U.S. health officials on Monday cut recommendations for isolation restrictions for Americans diagnosed with coronavirus from 10 to five days, and similarly shortened the time that close contacts need ...