Madeleine Albright, a child refugee from Nazi- and then Soviet-dominated eastern Europe who rose to become the 1st female U.S. secretary of state and a mentor to many current and former American state...

Russia will seek payment in rubles for gas sold to "unfriendly" countries, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday, and European gas prices soared on concerns the move would exacerbate the region's...

Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness told Prince William and Kate on Wednesday that the British Commonwealth nation intends to become a republic in an unexpected announcement that comes as other cou...

The U.S. State Department said Wednesday that a U.S. Embassy official has visited with WNBA star Brittney Griner, who remains detained near Moscow, to check on her condition.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is calling on people around the world to come out in their city squares and streets and stand with Ukraine and against the Russian invasion.

In a state known for its oil booms, sustainable sources of energy such as wind and solar are experiencing a surge.

Investigators have found what they believe to be the cockpit voice recorder in the wreckage of a China Eastern flight that crashed in the country's south with 132 people on board, a Chinese aviation o...

A small team of Canadian health care workers who volunteer their time in disaster zones around the world are on the ground in Ukraine and Poland aiding some of those trying to escape the war. CBC spen...

Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine works in babies, toddlers and preschoolers, the company announced Wednesday — and if regulators agree it could mean a chance to finally start vaccinating the youngest chil...

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers decided against opening schools to girls above the sixth grade, reneging on a promise and opting to appease their hardline base at the expense of further alienating the in...

A tornado that menaced New Orleans flipped a school bus, ripped off rooftops and deposited a house with a family inside onto the middle of Prosperity Street. Two people were killed as the storm front ...

The Dutch publisher of a discredited cold case investigation into the betrayal of teenage Jewish diarist Anne Frank said Tuesday it was recalling the book following a critical report on its findings. ...

Australia's world number one Ash Barty has retired at the age of 25 and at the peak of her game, citing the fulfilment of her tennis goals and fatigue with life on the Tour.

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, in the first day of questioning from senators, forcefully defended herself from accusations from at least two Republicans that she handed out lenient ...

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny urged his supporters to show their opposition to the Russian government after a court sentenced him to nine years in prison on Tuesday for fraud and contempt. ...

Even though only a small percentage of Walt Disney Co. workers participated in a walkout Tuesday, organizers felt they had won a moral victory with the company issuing a statement denouncing the anti-...

Ukrainian forces fought off continuing Russian efforts to occupy Mariupol and claimed to have retaken a strategic suburb of Kyiv on Tuesday, mounting a defence so dogged that it is stoking fears Russi...

In 1992, when the first exoplanet discovery was announced by Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail, no one could have imagined that only 30 years later thousands of exoplanets would be known to humanity...

A knife-wielding man on Tuesday killed four people and seriously wounded two others in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba before he was shot dead by armed residents, police said.