The World Health Organization is now tracking a few dozen cases of two additional sub-variants of the highly transmissible Omicron strain of SARS-CoV-2 to assess whether they're more infectious or da...

Pacific Gas & Electric has agreed to pay more than $55 million US to avoid criminal prosecution for two major wildfires started by aging Northern California power lines belonging to the nation's large...

Mimi Reinhard, a secretary in Oskar Schindler's office who typed up the list of Jews he saved from extermination by Nazi Germany, has died in Israel at the age of 107.

Pakistan's parliament chose a more Western-friendly politician, Shehbaz Sharif, as prime minister on Monday, completing the ousting of predecessor Imran Khan in a political crisis that has sparked str...

A jury deliberated for just 18 minutes Monday before finding a fervent ISIS supporter guilty of stabbing British lawmaker David Amess to death in a slaying that shocked the nation and sparked calls f...

The latest chapter in Hollywood star Johnny Depp's legal battle with ex-wife Amber Heard kicks off on Monday as a U.S. defamation trial begins over allegations Heard made about domestic abuse. ...

Canada is targeting Russia's defence industry with its latest round of sanctions over Moscow's invasion of neighbouring Ukraine.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk won't be joining Twitter's board of directors as previously announced. The tempestuous billionaire remains Twitter's largest shareholder.

Protests held across Pakistan in support of ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan, as opposition politician Shehbaz Sharif, the younger brother of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, announced he would se...

Two police officers will be reinstated after an arbitrator ruled they didn't violate use-of-force guidelines when they pushed a 75-year-old protester to the ground at a June 2020 protest over the murd...

French polling agencies suggest President Emmanuel Macron and challenger Marine Le Pen have qualified for a presidential election run-off on April 24, pitting a pro-European economic liberal against a...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned his nation Sunday night that the coming week would be as crucial as any in the war, adding in his nightly address that he expects Russian troops to "move...

Scottie Scheffler capped off an amazing two months with his grandest feat of all, winning the Masters on Sunday to validate his new status as the best player in golf.

Australia's prime minister has called for a May 21 election that will likely be fought on issues including Chinese economic coercion, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Thousands of Sri Lankans rallied in the main business district of the capital, Colombo, on Saturday, calling on the country's president to resign, as anxiety and anger simmer over food shortages and p...

The rain, long lineups and wait times didn't stop French citizens living in Montreal from having their voices heard in the first round of France's presidential election.

China's largest city, Shanghai, will soon begin lifting lockdowns in communities that report no positive cases within 14 days after another round of COVID-19 testing, authorities said Saturday. ...

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was ousted on Sunday when he lost a vote of confidence in parliament, after being deserted by coalition partners who blame him for a crumbling economy and failure t...

The motion picture academy on Friday banned Will Smith from attending the Oscars or any other academy event for 10 years following his slap of Chris Rock at the Academy Awards.