North Korea announced its first coronavirus infection more than two years into the pandemic Thursday as leader Kim Jong-un called for raising COVID-19 preventive measures to maximum levels. ...

A journalist for Al Jazeera was shot and killed while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin early Wednesday. The broadcaster blamed Israeli forces, while Israel initially sa...

A nearly $1-billion US tentative settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit brought by families of victims and survivors of last June's condominium collapse in Surfside, Fla., an attorney s...

A U.S. federal study of Native American boarding schools — that for over a century sought to assimilate Indigenous children into white society — has identified more than 500 student deaths at the...

Video of a naked Jesse Williams, captured onstage in a shower scene from a Broadway play, has been posted online — prompting an outcry from the producers and the union that represents actors and sta...

Inflation slowed in April after seven months of relentless gains, a tentative sign that price increases may be peaking while still imposing a financial strain on American households.

The European Union will no longer require masks to be worn at airports and on planes starting next week amid the easing of coronavirus restrictions across the bloc, authorities said Wednesday. ...

It was once the face of portable music, but the iPod's time is up as Apple is discontinuing the device.

A U.S. senator derided Canada as a freeloader on defence during a high-profile congressional hearing and he suggested he's getting fed up with it. As American politicians prepare to send billions mo...

The race to reach eight workers trapped in a flooded, Canadian-owned zinc mine in West Africa is making progress. 

Investigators will examine whether prison official Vicky White's fatal gunshot wound was self-inflicted, as prisoner Casey White claimed, after the pair were finally tracked down after 11 days on the ...

Federal prosecutors in the United States have charged the leader of a notoriously violent Haitian gang with conspiracy to commit hostage taking for his alleged role in the kidnapping of 16 Americans a...

The head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday China's zero-tolerance COVID-19 policy is not sustainable given what is known of the disease, in rare public comments by the United Nations ag...

Authorities will not file criminal charges against former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson after he was recorded on video punching a fellow first-class passenger aboard a plane at San Francisco Internatio...

The James Webb Space Telescope beamed back the latest test pictures of a neighbouring satellite galaxy, and the results are stunning when compared with images taken by NASA's previous infrared observa...

Elon Musk said he will reverse Twitter's permanent ban of former U.S. president Donald Trump if the Tesla CEO follows through with his plan to buy the social media company. To date, Trump has maintain...

The world faces a 50 per cent chance of warming 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels, if only briefly, by 2026, the World Meteorological Organization says.

With the Queen forced to withdraw on Monday due to a recurrence of mobility issues, Prince Charles arrived at the Palace of Westminster on Tuesday to read out the government's legislative agenda. ...

Yoon Suk Yeol, a conservative political neophyte, took office as South Korea's new president Tuesday with a vow to pursue a negotiated settlement of North Korea's threatening nuclear program and an of...