A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people aboard crashed in a remote mountainous area of southern China on Monday, setting off a forest fire visible from space, in the country's worst air disaste...

Dozens of well-known leaders in Jamaica including professors and politicians are demanding an apology and slavery reparations as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge prepare for a trip to the former Brit...

The creators of the popular online video game Fortnite have raised more than $36 million US in a single day, after promising to send all the money raised from sales of a new version of the game to sup...

Violent repression of the largely Muslim Rohingya population in Myanmar amounts to genocide, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday, a declaration intended to both generate international p...

Hong Kong's leader says the city will lift flight bans on nine countries including Canada and the U.S. as of April 1 and reduce quarantine time for travellers arriving in the city as coronavirus infec...

Kanye West was told Friday that he is not allowed to perform at the Grammys this year, a representative for the musician has confirmed to The Associated Press.

British Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe said on Monday she should not have been left detained in Iran for six years and questioned why Britain had failed to get her home before her return...

Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden's nominee to become the first Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, pledged judicial independence and told senators on Monday that she recognized the limite...

One person was killed and 24 people were wounded after gunfire erupted during a car show that is part of an annual community event in a small southeast Arkansas town, authorities said Sunday. ...

Discussions about sexual identity and race are being forced out of schools in states where conservatives argue cultural change has gone overboard.

As much as Queen Elizabeth holds out hope that the Commonwealth "remains an influential force for good in our world for generations to come," there has also been longstanding debate and questions over...

Rescuers have recovered six bodies after a cargo vessel hit a ferry carrying dozens of people along a river outside Bangladesh's capital, officials and survivors say.

Russia demanded that Ukrainians in the besieged port city of Mariupol lay down their arms Monday in exchange for safe passage out of town, but Ukraine rejected the offer.

North Korea fired suspected artillery pieces into the sea on Sunday, South Korea's military said, days after the North's latest missile launch ended in failure amid the country's recent burst of weapo...

 A car has slammed at high speed into carnival revellers in a small town in southern Belgium, killing six people and leaving 10 more with life-threatening injuries.

A recent deepfake fail involving a likeness of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky may not have been convincing to the public, but experts fear more advanced versions of such deception could wreak...

Russian forces pushed deeper into Ukraine's besieged and battered port city of Mariupol on Saturday, where heavy fighting shut down a major steel plant and local authorities pleaded for more Western h...

The world's breadbasket is cracking. The war in Ukraine is the latest in a cascading set of problems leading to a potential global food crisis. Here's what experts fear — and how they say Canada can...

About three dozen would-be asylum seekers from Russia found themselves blocked from entering the U.S. on Friday, while a group of Ukrainians flashed passports and were escorted across the border. ...