Australia will spend an additional $50 million ($44.63 million Cdn) in the next four years to protect koala habitat and slow the decline of the vulnerable species, the government said on Saturday. ...

Although the ability of aid workers to enter Tigray improved during the summer months and "kept starvation at bay" for people there, no aid convoy has reached Tigray since mid-December, the United Nat...

Just days after the banning of Maus by a Tennessee school district made national news, two editions of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust have reached the top 2...

An inquiry into COVID-19 lockdown-breaking gatherings in Downing Street that might determine British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's future could be further delayed after the police asked for the repor...

Omicron, the highly contagious coronavirus variant sweeping across the U.S., is driving the daily American death toll higher than during last fall's Delta wave, with deaths likely to keep rising for d...

U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said Friday the buildup of Russian forces along Ukraine's border has reached the point where Russian President Vladimir Putin now has a complete range of military o...

A visit to a village near the rebel-held part of Eastern Ukraine provides a glimpse of what daily life is like for civilians and soldiers as Russian troops amass along the border.

Scientists have detected what appears to be an incredibly dense star behaving unlike anything else ever seen — and suspect it might be a type of exotic astrophysical object whose existence has unti...

Premier Jason Kenney says he wants to eliminate Alberta's COVID-19 vaccine passport program as soon as it's safe to do so, but he noted that it's not yet the right time, as hospitals continue to feel ...

U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday said he plans to name a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer by the end of February and reiterated his intention to nominate a Black woman...

Stormy Daniels was on the witness stand Thursday at Michael Avenatti's trial, telling a jury she was "very, very angry" and felt "betrayed and stupid" when she was told that the California lawyer she ...

The U.S. Coast Guard said it suspended its rescue operations at sunset Thursday after announcing earlier that afternoon that it had found four additional bodies in its search for dozens of migrants l...

The White House says U.S. President Joe Biden warned Ukraine's president Thursday that there is a "distinct possibility" Russia could take military action against Ukraine in February. The Kremlin like...

Police in India have detained six people in a crackdown on illegal immigration after four people were found frozen to death last week in Manitoba, near the border between Canada and the United States,...

Afghanistan is "hanging by a thread," United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres told the UN Security Council on Wednesday, calling for countries to authorize all transactions needed to carry o...

Space enthusiast Kyle Hippchen was the real winner of a first-of-its-kind sweepstakes but missed the fine print — and, ultimately, a trip to space.

With 192 lasers and temperatures more than three times hotter than the center of the sun, scientists hit — at least for a fraction of a second — a key milestone on the long road toward nearly poll...

U.S. President Joe Biden's move to put 8,500 troops on "heightened alert" for a potential deployment to Europe, along with a $200-million shipment of weapons to Ukraine, suggests he wants to signal h...

Germany's upcoming decision on whether to certify the controversial Russian-owned Nord Stream 2 pipeline is rapidly emerging as a key element in high-stakes diplomatic efforts to dissuade Moscow from...