Former U.S. president Donald Trump is dangling the prospect of pardons for supporters who participated in the deadly Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol if he returns to the White House. ...

North Korea on Sunday fired what appeared to be the most powerful missile it has tested since U.S. President Joe Biden took office, as it revives its old playbook in brinkmanship to wrest concessions...

Russia says it will relocate naval exercises off the coast of Ireland after Dublin raised concerns about them amid a tense dispute with the West over expansion of the NATO alliance and fears that Russ...

A nor'easter with hurricane-force wind gusts battered much of the U.S. East Coast on Saturday, flinging heavy snow that made travel treacherous or impossible, flooding coastlines and threatening to le...

Lawmakers entreated Mattarella, 80, who had said he didn't want a second mandate, to change his mind. That move followed days of fruitless efforts by political leaders to reach a consensus on a candid...

Canada’s chief public health officer is warning COVID-19 “severity trends” such as hospitalizations and deaths are still rising despite signs that the country’s recent wave of transmissions dr...

Ash Barty has won the Australian Open final over Danielle Collins to end a 44-year drought for Australian women at their home Grand Slam tournament.

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. ...

Cameroon authorities have blamed a deadly stadium crush at the African Cup of Nations tournament on a "massive" influx of ticketless fans who arrived late to a game involving the host team and tried t...

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 ...