A Hong Kong online news site said Sunday that it will cease operations in light of deteriorating press freedoms, days after police raided and arrested seven people for sedition at a separate pro-democ...

U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin says he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms while quarantining at home.

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said on Sunday he was resigning, six weeks after returning to his post in a deal with military coup leaders he argued could save a transition toward democracy. ...

Twitter on Sunday banned the personal account of U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for multiple violations of its COVID-19 misinformation policy, according to a statement from the company. ...

A major fire ripped through South Africa's 138-year-old Parliament complex on Sunday, gutting offices and causing some ceilings to collapse at a site that has hosted some of the country's pivotal mome...

Thousands of people in the Netherlands defied a ban on assembling and demonstrated Sunday against the Dutch government's coronavirus lockdown measures, gathering in a central square before marching to...

Search teams looked for two missing people on Sunday in the snow-covered but still smouldering debris from a massive Colorado wildfire, while people who barely escaped the flames sorted through what w...

Ontario hospitals are feeling the brunt of soaring COVID-19 case counts as the virus rips through the province at record speed and infects high numbers of patients and health-care workers. ...

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 ...