China has refused to condemn Russia over the invasion of Ukraine, but experts agree the Asian superpower occupies a pivotal role in the crisis, as both an ally to Russia and the world's leading expor...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is staying put in Kyiv even with Russian troops just 25 kilometers from the capital. An analyst says Russia could be looking to eliminate anyone who coul...

Former Minneapolis police officers Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane were convicted Thursday of violating George Floyd's civil rights after being charged with depriving the 46-year-old Blac...

Shocked Russians turned out by the thousands Thursday to decry their country's invasion of Ukraine as emotional calls for protests grew on social media and around 1,745 people in 54 Russian cities wer...

U.S. President Joe Biden unveiled harsh new sanctions against Russia on Thursday after Moscow launched an all-out invasion of Ukraine, imposing measures to impede Russia's ability to do business in th...

At dawn on Thursday, Ukrainians' uneasy efforts at normality were shattered. Smoke rose from cities, even well away from the country's disputed eastern border.

Thousands of Ukrainians fleeing war with Russia started arriving in neighbouring central European countries on Thursday, and the region braced for many more — setting up reception points and sendin...

UEFA will no longer stage this season's Champions League final in St. Petersburg after Russia attacked Ukraine, The Associated Press has learned.

Well-preserved fish fossils are providing a deeper understanding of the global calamity triggered by an asteroid 12 kilometres wide that struck Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

Dr. Paul Farmer dedicated his life to providing health care to the poorest people in the world. Long-time colleagues and friends of Dr. Farmer, Dr. Joia Mukherjee and Dr. Anthony Fauci, say his legacy...

Jurors at the federal trial of three fired Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd's civil rights went home without reaching a verdict Wednesday, the first day of deliberations...

The Queen held her weekly audience with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson via telephone on Wednesday despite having contracted COVID-19, Buckingham Palace said.

The potential for a war in eastern Europe has made energy prices volatile over investor fears that conflict between Russia and Ukraine could disrupt supplies.

The Pentagon has approved the deployment of 700 unarmed National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., as it prepares for convoys that are planning protests against pandemic restrictions beginning next we...

Some of the young people in Ukraine who grew up near borders with Russia speaking Russian have turned their backs on that identity in favour of a more Western and Ukrainian one. They fear a war could ...

To combat slumping ratings, the Oscars are undergoing a radical slimming down, with eight awards to be presented off-air during next month's telecast of the 94th Academy Awards.

The likelihood of catastrophic wildfires globally could increase more than 50 per cent by the turn of the century, according to the report from the UN Environment Program, and governments are ill prep...

Gary Brooker, the Procol Harum frontman who sang one of the most enduring hits of the 1960s, A Whiter Shade of Pale, has died. He was 76.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined the U.S., U.K., and Germany Tuesday, announcing new and tougher sanctions against Russia, one day after President Vladimir Putin formally recognized two breakaw...