A Texas judge on Friday blocked the state from investigating gender-affirming care for transgender youth as child abuse after a directive by the state's governor compelled officials to investigate par...

After almost eight hours sitting in a police station and court, Vera Kotova became one of the first people to be judged and fined just under $240 US under a new Russian law to punish anyone deemed to ...

Queen Elizabeth will miss next week's Commonwealth Service, Buckingham Palace has said, in what was due to have been the 95-year-old's first in-person public engagement since being advised to rest by ...

China on Friday ordered a lockdown of the nine million residents of the northeastern city of Changchun amid a new spike in COVID-19 cases in the area attributed to the highly contagious omicron varian...

India said on Friday it had accidentally fired a missile into Pakistan this week because of a "technical malfunction" during routine maintenance, giving its version of events after Pakistan summoned I...

The United Nations on Friday said it was not aware of any biological weapons program in Ukraine while Washington and its allies voiced concerns Russia was spreading the unproven claim in order to laun...

Crises have a way of revealing historical inflection points. We're at one on energy. The oil market has 'gone berserk,' according to an analyst, and we face a bumpy transition to newer energy. Here's...

U.S. officials are extending the requirement for masks to be worn on planes and public transportation for one more month — through mid-April — while taking steps that could lead to the rule being ...

Russian forces kept up their bombardment of the port city of Mariupol on Thursday, while satellite photos showed that a massive convoy of Russian forces that had been positioned outside the Ukrainian ...

China is tackling a COVID-19 spike with selective lockdowns and other measures that appear to slightly ease its draconian 'zero-tolerance' strategy.

Russia's wide-ranging invasion of Ukraine entered a third week on Thursday, as Ukrainian soldiers and volunteers continued to resist the incoming forces.

Major League Baseball's players and owners ended their most bitter money fight in a quarter-century Thursday when the players' association accepted management's offer to salvage a 162-game season that...

Emilio Delgado, the actor and singer who for 45 years was a warm and familiar presence in children's lives and a rare Latino face on American television as fix-it shop owner Luis on Sesame Street, di...

Jussie Smollett was sentenced Thursday to 150 days in jail for lying to police about a racist and homophobic attack that the former Empire actor orchestrated himself.

Propelled by surging costs for gas, food and housing, consumer inflation jumped 7.9 per cent over the past year, the sharpest spike since 1982 and likely only a harbinger of even higher prices to com...

A billionaire with close ties to the Kremlin has been sanctioned by the British government, resulting in trading in Evraz being suspended on the London Stock Exchange.

Before Russia invaded Ukraine 2 weeks ago, military watchers expected the much larger Russian air force to overwhelm Ukraine's and quickly grab "air superiority." Instead, the U.K. said Wednesday that...

Videos of captured Russian soldiers being shared on social media may be contributing to the violation of international law and how prisoners of war should be treated, which includes a prohibition of ...

Russia's defence ministry acknowledged on Wednesday that some conscripted soldiers were taking part in the conflict with Ukraine after Russian President Vladimir Putin denied this on various occasions...