Queen Elizabeth became monarch 70 years ago today, and as the unprecedented milestone is marked this year, it is hard to gauge how the Platinum Jubilee will be observed in the shadow of the coronaviru...

A year after Vancouver-born Ryan Reynolds and American actor and producer Rob McElhenney invested more than $3.4 million to buy Wrexham Association Football Club, the team’s fans are riding a wave o...

Australia will open its borders to all vaccinated tourists and business travellers from Feb. 21 in a further relaxation of pandemic restrictions announced Monday.

Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai has denied she ever accused anyone of sexual assault, pointing out she deleted her social media post in November that appeared to make the claim.

The death of five-year-old Rayan Awram despite a massive effort to rescue him from a deep well sparked an outpouring of sympathy on Sunday, from his village in northern Morocco to the Vatican, from Ki...

Three people were reported dead in southeastern Madagascar on Sunday after cyclone Batsirai made landfall, leaving a trail of devastation including collapsed buildings, power cuts and flooding. ...

Sadio Mane delivered a first African Cup of Nations title for Senegal on Sunday by drilling the decisive penalty in a shootout into the bottom left corner to beat Egypt and his Liverpool teammate Moha...

President Volodymyr Zelensky said a week ago that Ukraine was not a sinking Titanic and accused Washington and the media of fuelling panic that weighed on the economy when there were "no tanks in the ...

The United States Coast Guard said the group became stranded near Catawba Island, Ohio, just south of the Canada-U.S. border.

West Africa's new wave of coups kicked off in Mali in 2020, followed by another in Guinea the next year and then Burkina Faso late last month.

A mission to train health care workers in Yemen to use portable ultrasound devices was disrupted by COVID and the ongoing war between government forces and Houthi rebels, so doctors in Canada and the ...

A five-year-old boy who was trapped for four days in a deep well in Morocco has died, the royal palace said Saturday. The rescue efforts gained global attention after Moroccans took to social media to...

Lata Mangeshkar, a legendary Indian singer with a prolific, groundbreaking catalogue and a voice recognized by a billion people in South Asia, has died, her doctor said. She was 92.

France and the European Union are investigating why a massive swarm of dead fish was released by a huge trawler in the Atlantic Ocean off France after an environmental group released dramatic video an...

Jurors refused to make parole possible after 51 years in prison for the man who shot and killed four people at a Nashville Waffle House in 2018.

The Minneapolis mayor imposed a moratorium on no-knock warrants Friday, two days after a SWAT team entered an apartment and killed Amir Locke, a 22-year-old Black man who his parents said was "execute...

American podcaster Joe Rogan has issued his second apology in a week, this time for using racial slurs after a montage video surfaced showing him repeatedly saying the N-word.

Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping issued a joint statement highlighting what it called "interference in the internal affairs" of other states, as both leaders face criticism from Washingt...

The Republican Party on Friday censured two of its own over their involvement in a congressional investigation of the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill, which the party described as "ordinary citizens e...

Propelled in part by the wildly contagious Omicron variant, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit 900,000 on Friday, less than two months after eclipsing 800,000.