Oscars producer Will Packer said Los Angeles police were ready to arrest Will Smith after Smith slapped Chris Rock on the Academy Awards stage.

People are celebrating Japan's peak cherry blossom viewing season without COVID-19 restrictions for the first time in two years. But many are strolling under the trees rather than drinking and eating ...

Multiple Afghan interpreters and their families have told CBC News about being stuck in Islamabad, Pakistan, while the Canadian government has just brought over a 10,000 Afghans fleeing the Taliban. ...

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday signed into law a bill that creates the country's statewide alert system for missing Indigenous people.

Residents of eastern Shanghai hoping to emerge from a four-day lockdown got some bad news Thursday night: Some will be confined to their homes for at least 10 more days.

U.S. President Joe Biden is ordering the release of one million barrels of oil per day from the nation's strategic petroleum reserve for six months, in a bid to control skyrocketing energy prices and...

The Constitutional Court in Seoul upheld a ban on tattooing on Thursday, confirming South Korea as the only developed country that permits no one but medical professionals to perform the procedure. ...

The head of the United Nations announced the appointment Thursday of an expert panel led by Catherine McKenna, Canada's former environment minister, that will scrutinize whether companies' efforts to ...

Israeli forces raided a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank early Thursday, setting off a gun battle in which two Palestinians were killed and 15 were wounded, the Palestinian Health Ministry said....

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.

Two of Brittney Griner's USA Basketball teammates have broken their silence on the star player's imprisonment in Russia.

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.

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.

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.