The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Wednesday said that Will Smith was asked to leave Sunday's Oscars ceremony after hitting comedian Chris Rock, but he refused to do so. ...

Ali Kharsa says seeing the war in Ukraine has brought his memories of fleeing Syria back to the forefront.

Many of the Indigenous delegates meeting the Pope this week finished a private tour of the Vatican Museums yesterday disappointed, but the leader of the Inuit delegation says he was told the Vatican i...

A recent royal tour intensified a spotlight on Britain's colonial history, renewing questions about how much longer Commonwealth countries — including Canada — will have a monarch as their head ...

Tom Parker, a member of British-Irish boy band The Wanted, has died after being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor in October 2020. He was 33.

A teenager was sentenced to six weeks in prison on Wednesday for racially abusing England soccer player Marcus Rashford on social media last year after the European Championship final.

Britain said Wednesday that it is withdrawing its judges from Hong Kong's top court because keeping them there would "legitimize oppression" in the former British colony.

U.S. President Joe Biden signed a bill into law on Tuesday to make lynching a federal hate crime — more than 100 years after such legislation was first proposed.

The Queen shrugged off recent health issues to attend a service of thanksgiving for her late husband, Prince Philip, at Westminster Abbey on Tuesday, entering the cavernous church through a side doo...

A gunman on a motorcycle opened fire in a crowded city in central Israel late Tuesday, methodically gunning down victims and killing at least five people in the third deadly attack in a week. The sho...

People hoping to speed up their cross-border travel with the NEXUS and FAST programs will be able to book screening interviews starting next month in the United States, the Canada Border Services Agen...

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen announced late Tuesday that it will observe a unilateral ceasefire in the yearslong war, a move it said is aimed at facilitating political negotiations in the...

FedEx says Fred Smith will step down on June 1 as CEO of the package-delivery company that he founded and be succeeded by the company's president and chief operating officer.

U.S. regulators have authorized a fourth dose of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for Americans 50 and older because of concerns about waning immunity in the age group, the drugmakers said on Tuesd...

A two-phase lockdown of Shanghai's 26 million people is testing the limits of China's hard-line "zero-COVID" strategy, which is shaking markets far beyond the country's borders.

British police have issued 20 fines over illegal parties held by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his staff during coronavirus lockdowns — although the recipients don't include Johnson, whose hold o...

The government of El Salvador said Monday it has arrested more than 1,000 gang suspects after a wave of killings over the weekend.

The U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol voted unanimously Monday night to hold former Trump advisers Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino in contempt of Congress f...