The 94th Academy Awards on Sunday maintained a buoyant spirit until Will Smith took great offence to a joke by presenter Chris Rock about the best-actor nominee's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. ...

China began locking down most of its largest city of Shanghai on Monday as part of its strict COVID-19 strategy, amid questions over the policy's economic toll on the country.

Two Arab gunmen killed two police officers on a city street in Israel on Sunday and were then shot dead, as the U.S. secretary of state and three Arab foreign ministers visited the country for a summi...

The 94th Academy Awards welcomed back a star-studded red carpet and a revised broadcast Sunday. Historic wins by Ariana DeBose as supporting actress for West Side Story and CODA's Troy Kotsur for s...

The International Committee of the Red Cross confirmed it's considering opening up an office in Russia near the Ukrainian border in a bid to scale up humanitarian efforts in the embattled area — a...

El Salvador's congress granted President Nayib Bukele's request to declare a state of emergency early Sunday after dozens of gang-related killings over the weekend.

As Caribbean nations debate their relationship with the British crown, Prince William says he will support and respect whatever decision the people make.

A wildfire south of Boulder, Colo., that forced nearly 20,000 people to flee was listed at 21 per cent contained and most evacuations had been lifted by Sunday morning, officials with Boulder Fire-Re...

Shanghai said on Sunday it would lock down the city in two stages to carry out COVID-19 testing over a nine-day period, after the city reported a new daily record for asymptomatic infections. ...

The second black box has been recovered from the crash of a China Eastern Boeing 737-800 that killed all 132 people on board last week, Chinese state media says.

After publicly announcing three weeks ago it was suspending its operations in Russia, McDonald's has now gone silent about why some of its restaurants are still open for business. 

A Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen unleashed a barrage of airstrikes on the capital and a strategic Red Sea city, officials said Saturday. At least eight people were kil...

Canada's ambassador to the UN Bob Rae says he doesn't believe a word that Russia says when it comes to it's invasion of Ukraine, arguing that the international community must make the cost of ongoing ...

Chinese authorities officially confirmed Saturday that there were no survivors in the crash of a China Eastern 737-800 earlier this week. There were 132 people on board.

Authorities ordered 19,000 people from their homes on Saturday due to a fast-moving Colorado wildfire in rolling hills south of the college town of Boulder, not far from the site of a destructive 20...

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers refused to allow dozens of women to board several flights, including some heading to Canada, because they were travelling without male guardians, two Afghan airline offici...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will co-host an international fundraiser to help raise funds for refugees fleeing the conflict in Ukraine. ...

About 300 people died in a Russian airstrike last week on a theatre being used as a bomb shelter in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, the city's government said Friday, citing eyewitnesses. ...

Protesters gathered in cities across Canada on Friday to denounce government inaction on fighting climate change as part of a series of worldwide environmental protests.