This week on Nothing is Foreign, a conversation with Mahmoud Rafat, the godfather of Mahraganat — the Egyptian street music sensation the government does not want you to hear.

The premier of the British Virgin Islands and the director of the Caribbean territory's ports were arrested Thursday on drug smuggling charges in south Florida, U.S. officials said.

A retired New York City police officer charged with assaulting a police officer during the U.S. Capitol riot testified Thursday at his trial that he was trying to defend himself against a "rogue cop" ...

Climate change will result in thousands of new viruses spread among animal species by 2070 — and that's likely to increase the risk of emerging infectious diseases jumping from animals to humans, ac...

The former Minneapolis police officer found guilty of murder in the killing of George Floyd has appealed his conviction, saying among other things that the jury was intimidated by ongoing, sometimes v...

The council of the northern city of York on Wednesday night voted unanimously to withdraw the Prince Andrew's "freedom of the city." The honour was awarded to Andrew in 1987 after Queen Elizabeth made...

Beijing is closing all city schools in a further tightening of COVID-19 restrictions, as China's capital seeks to prevent a wider outbreak.

Control of the media by rich white males is nothing new in Canada or the world. But some say the influence of Tesla boss Elon Musk could be bad for democracy while making him even richer. ...

More than 1 in 5 species of reptiles worldwide are threatened with extinction, according to a comprehensive new assessment of thousands of species published Wednesday in the journal Nature. ...

Moderna says it's working on a submission to Health Canada for the approval a COVID-19 vaccine for children under the age of six.

Taiwan, which had been living mostly free of COVID-19, is now facing its worst outbreak since the beginning of the pandemic, with more than 11,000 new cases reported Thursday.

A British court ruled Wednesday that the Conservative government acted illegally when it discharged hospital patients into nursing homes without testing them for COVID-19 or isolating them — a polic...

SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA on Wednesday, less than two days after completing a flight chartered by millionaires.

United States prosecutors say they've offered a plea deal to the Montreal-area woman accused of mailing poison to former president Donald Trump.

The European Commission said Wednesday that between 60 and 80 per cent of the European population was estimated to have contracted COVID-19, a rate comparable to an American estimate this week, as the...

A court in military-ruled Myanmar sentenced deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in jail on Wednesday after finding her guilty in the first of 11 corruption cases she faces, a source with kno...

A fresh examination of meteorites that landed in the United States, Canada and Australia is bolstering the notion that early in Earth's history, such objects may have delivered chemical ingredients vi...

Elon Musk and Twitter have each agreed to pay the other $1 billion if their proposed merger falls apart because of the actions of either side.

Issues of sexism in the U.K. Parliament have come to the fore once again, as two British newspapers report a Conservative MP watching porn on his phone while in the House of Commons debating chamber. ...