North America has just taken a major, erm, spring forward toward eliminating the twice-a-year change to our clocks. The U.S. Senate passed a bill with potential for ripple effect that could touch Cana...

No charges will be filed against the Chicago police officers who chased and fatally shot 13-year-old Adam Toledo and 22-year-old Anthony Alvarez within days of each other last year, prompting sharp sc...

A Russian woman who denounced the war in Ukraine during a live news bulletin on state television was fined 30,000 rubles (about $300 Cdn) on Tuesday, a court said, after the Kremlin denounced her act ...

Chinese authorities on Tuesday tightened anti-virus controls at ports, raising the risk of trade disruptions, after some auto and electronics factories shut down as the government fights coronavirus o...

The Grammy Awards are bringing together some of the world's biggest pop acts, including Olivia Rodrigo, BTS and Billie Eilish, perform during next month's ceremony in Las Vegas.

A gunman suspected of stalking homeless men asleep on the streets of New York City and Washington, D.C., killing at least two people and wounding three others, was arrested early Tuesday, police said....

The ban on Russian soccer teams from European competition was upheld Tuesday by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. But the Interim verdict does not apply to Russia's chances of being reinstated for W...

An anti-war protester interrupted the main news program on Russia's state TV Channel One on Monday, holding up a sign behind the studio presenter with slogans denouncing the war in Ukraine. ...

China banned most people from leaving a coronavirus-hit northeastern province and mobilized military reservists Monday as the fast-spreading "stealth Omicron" variant fuels the country's biggest outbr...

Britain's government said Monday all remaining coronavirus measures for travellers, including passenger locator forms and the requirement that unvaccinated people be tested for COVID-19 before and aft...

Face to face, U.S. President Joe Biden's national security adviser warned a top Chinese official on Monday about China's support for Russia in the Ukrainian invasion, even as the Kremlin denied report...

Nearly all the world's countries kicked off a UN-backed meeting Monday aimed at preventing the loss of biodiversity — seen as critical to avoiding the extinction of many vulnerable species, the emer...

In less than a month, France will hold its first-round presidential ballot — and while the war in Ukraine is a mounting concern, the issues at the heart of the presidential election are closer to ho...

Squatters have occupied the London mansion suspected of belonging to Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska — who was placed on Britain's sanctions list last week — unfurling a Ukrainian flag and ...

William Hurt, whose laconic charisma and self-assured subtlety as an actor made him one of the 1980s foremost leading men in movies such as Broadcast News, Body Heat and The Big Chill, has died. He ...

The U.S. has unleashed weapons of financial destruction against Russia. Now economists are trying to predict the long-term fallout for the U.S. dollar's role as a global reserve currency. It's a sourc...

Brent Renaud, an acclaimed filmmaker who travelled to some of the darkest and most dangerous corners of the world for documentaries, died Sunday after Russian forces opened fire on his vehicle in Ukra...

A bus carrying Ukrainian refugees overturned on a major highway in northern Italy at dawn on Sunday, killing a young mother, Italian firefighters and news reports said.

Iran has claimed responsibility for a missile barrage that struck early Sunday near a sprawling U.S. consulate complex in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, saying it was retaliation for an Israeli str...