A Colorado official says nearly 1,000 homes and other structures were destroyed, hundreds more were damaged, and three people are missing after a wildfire charred numerous neighbourhoods in a suburban...

A funeral service was held in Cape Town, South Africa, on Saturday for Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning equality activist who was revered in Africa for his role in endin...

In his New Year's Day wishes to the world, Pope Francis encouraged people to focus on the good that unites them and decried violence against women, while acknowledging the COVID-19 pandemic has left m...

A crowd surge at a popular Hindu shrine in Indian-controlled Kashmir killed at least 12 people and injured 15 on New Year's Day, officials said.

Betty White, the iconic television star who endeared herself to generations of fans over a decades-spanning career, has died at age 99.

The World Food Program has suspended its operations across Sudan's province of North Darfur following recent attacks on its warehouses, a decision expected to affect about two million local people. ...

In many places, plans for New Year's Eve celebrations were muted or cancelled for the second straight year because of a surge of coronavirus infections, this time driven by the highly contagious Omicr...

Tens of thousands of Colorado residents driven from their neighbourhoods by wind-whipped wildfires anxiously waited to learn what was left standing of their lives Friday after the flames burned at lea...

U.S. President Joe Biden promised during the presidential campaign to reinstate an effective ban on the use of landmines by the U.S. military which was undone by his predecessor Donald Trump. ...

Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin spoke frankly for nearly an hour late Thursday amid growing alarm over Russia's troop buildup near Ukraine, a crisis that's deepened as the Kremlin has stiffene...

Prince Andrew wasn't on trial in the Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking case, but experts say her conviction is bad news for the man who is ninth in line to the British throne.

Afghanistan's former president Ashraf Ghani said he had no choice but to abruptly leave Kabul as the Taliban closed in and denied an agreement was in the works for a peaceful takeover, disputing the a...

Two friends from London fell in love with Vancouver and the West Coast vibe so much when they visited two years ago that they decided to open a Vancouver-themed restaurant in the British capital that ...

Hong Kong police have formally charged two of seven people from a non-profit pro-democracy news website with sedition, a day after the outlet said it would shut down following a police raid on its off...

An estimated 580 homes, a hotel and a shopping centre have burned and tens of thousands of people were evacuated in wind-fuelled wildfires outside Denver, officials said Thursday evening. ...

Iran launched a rocket with a satellite carrier bearing three devices into space, authorities announced Thursday, without saying whether any of the objects had entered Earth's orbit.

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...