Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Friday demanding that Moscow immediately stop its attack on Ukraine and withdraw all troops, a defeat the United States and its supporters knew was i...

U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, calling her a "proven consensus builder." Jackson is the first Black woman selected to ser...

Most Americans live in places where healthy people, including students in schools, can safely take a break from wearing masks under new U.S. guidelines released Friday.

North American oil prices fell on Friday after U.S. President Joe Biden’s government signalled it won’t sanction Russian crude oil because of the impact it could have on pump prices. ...

Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and three major distributors finalized nationwide settlements over their role in the opioid addiction crisis on Friday, an announcement that clears the way for $26 billion ...

Emissions of planet-warming methane from oil, gas and coal production are 70 per cent higher than the official figure provided by governments worldwide, the International Energy Agency has found. ...

Russia will not be allowed to participate in the final of this year's Eurovision song contest, the organizer said on Friday, after Ukraine and several other European public broadcasters called for ...

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...

Sweden should have adopted tougher early measures and the government assumed clearer leadership as COVID-19 hit, though the mostly voluntary no-lockdown strategy was broadly correct, a commission revi...

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...

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.

Russia was stripped of hosting the Champions League final by UEFA on Friday with St. Petersburg replaced by Paris, and Formula One dropped this season's Russian Grand Prix at Sochi, as the invasion of...

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...

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