Some Canadians tuning in to hear Joe Biden's state of the union address Tuesday night may have been surprised, and possibly a little disconcerted, about how much prominence the president gave to hi...

Joshua A. James, an Alabama man affiliated with the far-right Oath Keepers militia group pleaded guilty Wednesday to seditious conspiracy for his actions leading up to and through the Jan. 6 riot, mak...

The United Nations approved a landmark agreement to create the world's first ever global plastic pollution treaty on Wednesday, describing it as the most significant environmental deal since the 2015 ...

Humanitarian agencies may have distributed enough aid in Afghanistan to avert famine and large-scale starvation, but the country's economic collapse is "approaching a point of irreversibility," the UN...

A small study of patients suffering from persistent symptoms long after a bout of COVID-19 found that nearly 60 per cent had nerve damage possibly caused by a defective immune response, a finding that...

The moon is about to get walloped by three tonnes of space junk, a punch that will carve out a crater that could fit several tractor-trailers.

Sydney was preparing on Wednesday for dangerous flash flooding as population centres farther north began a massive cleanup operation after record floods that have claimed at least 14 lives along Austr...

For those wanting to hear a more detailed explanation of why the U.S. should push back against Russia's invasion of Ukraine – and the potential costs of doing so – President Joe Biden's state o...

The parents of a transgender teenager in Texas said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the state is investigating them after Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ordered officials to look into reports of gender-c...

Addressing a concerned nation and anxious world, U.S. President Joe Biden vowed in his first state of the union address Tuesday night to check Russian aggression in Ukraine, tame soaring U.S. inflatio...

Wearing riot gear and using pepper spray, New Zealand police on Wednesday moved in on the hundreds of protesters who have been camped outside the nation's Parliament, with Prime Minister Jacinda Arder...

Russia's attack against Ukraine has also hijacked some of the president's planned agenda for the state of the union address on Tuesday night. The address was initially meant to focus on his domest...

A fire broke out Tuesday in a shopping mall in the Syrian capital of Damascus, killing 11 people and injuring seven others, the state-owned news agency said.

Speaking via video link to an emergency session of the European Parliament, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the EU on Tuesday to "prove that you are with us" in Ukraine's war with Russia,...

Belarusian authorities say more than half of the country's voters approved constitutional reforms that would allow its authoritarian leader to stay in power until 2035 and open the way for stronger mi...

While the warm welcome given by EU countries to refugees from Ukraine has been applauded, it has also highlighted stark differences in treatment given to migrants and refugees from the Middle East and...

Two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was protective against severe disease in children aged five to 11 during the recent Omicron variant surge, but quickly lost most of its ability to pr...

Current and past Ukrainian boxing champions are joining the country's fight against Russia's invasion.

Parts of Brisbane, Australia's third-most populous city, were under water Monday after heavy rain brought record flooding to some East Coast areas and killed eight people.