The Baltic states may be on high alert for a possible Russian attack on Ukraine, but Lithuania has another battle on its hands. The tiny country picked a political fight with China over the naming of ...

Ultra-strict COVID-19 measures are in effect indoors as well in the "closed loop" system that will keep Olympic-related personnel, media and athletes confined to a bubble for the duration of the 2022 ...

Dozens of Afghan female athletes left Kabul holding letters saying they had been granted a visa to Canada. They had no idea, they said, that by the time they were able to flee Afghanistan, the letters...

Actress Whoopi Goldberg made the remarks on The View program Monday morning and later apologized.

The World Health Organization chief said Tuesday that 90 million cases of coronavirus have been reported since the Omicron variant was first identified 10 weeks ago — amounting to more cases than in...

Disaster-hit Tonga will go into lockdown Wednesday evening after the Pacific island nation reported two port workers who had been helping distribute international aid had become infected with the coro...

A rain-weakened hillside collapsed in Ecuador's capital, sweeping over homes and a sports field and killing at least 24 people, city officials said Tuesday.

Assailants armed with machine guns attacked Guinea-Bissau's government palace for hours Tuesday while the president and prime minister were inside, but the coup attempt ultimately failed, the presiden...

A Dutch publisher has suspended printing of a book that suggested a Jewish notary betrayed the location of Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis, saying there were questions about the research behind...

The Earth boasts roughly 73,300 tree species, and 9,000 remain unknown to science, a new study estimates. But they're not spread evenly around the globe — here's where the most species are found, an...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said Moscow was open to more talks as a continuing buildup of an estimated 100,000 Russian troops near Ukraine fuels Western fears of an invasion. Here's ho...

The three largest U.S. drug distributors and drugmaker Johnson & Johnson have agreed to pay $590 million to resolve claims by Native American tribes that the companies fueled an opioid epidemic in the...

Amnesty International accused Israel on Tuesday of subjecting Palestinians to a system of apartheid founded on policies of "segregation, dispossession and exclusion" that it said amounted to crimes ag...

As it started to reopen Monday, the Quebec government said it will no longer proceed with a plan to impose a tax on people who aren't vaccinated against COVID-19.

TD Bank says it's making policy changes at its U.S. operations to reduce how much customers pay in overdraft fees amid rising regulatory pressure over the charges.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologized Monday for lockdown-flouting parties in Downing Street — but insisted that he and his government can be trusted as political rivals blasted his leader...

Russia accused the West on Monday of "whipping up tensions" over Ukraine and said the U.S. had brought "pure Nazis" to power in Kyiv as the UN Security Council held a stormy and bellicose debate on M...

A U.S. judge in Georgia rejected a plea agreement reached between federal prosecutors and one of the three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, saying she was not willing to be bound to the...

Lunar New Year is one of the biggest celebrations of the year for those of Asian heritage, involving games, traditional clothing, lucky money and lots of delicious food.