Democrats are spending money on ads to boost the profile of those seen as extremist Republican candidates to secure their Republican Party's nomination. But the strategy has raised some concerns abo...

Survivors dug by hand Thursday through villages in eastern Afghanistan reduced to rubble by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 1,000 people, as the Taliban and the international community that...

Canadian-born director and screenwriter Paul Haggis, who was arrested on Sunday evening in Italy on charges of sexual assault and grievous bodily harm, declared his innocence before a judge on Wednesd...

A bloodhound named Trumpet won the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show on Wednesday night, besting six other finalists to snare U.S. dogdom's most coveted best in show prize.

The war in Ukraine will cast its shadow over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other Commonwealth national leaders as they arrive in Kigali, Rwanda, on Wednesday for their first meeting since the o...

A powerful earthquake struck a rural, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing 1,000 people and injuring 1,500 more in one of the deadliest quakes in decades, the state-run n...

Britain's inflation rate hit a new 40-year high of 9.1 per cent in the 12 months to May, figures showed Wednesday, as Russia's war in Ukraine drove food and fuel prices ever higher.

Eight-year-old Danil Baranovsky spent months living underground in a Kharkiv subway station with his family as they tried to avoid Russian rockets. The city’s mayor, Ihor Terkhov, has said Russia’...

The House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday outlined Donald Trump's relentless pressure to overturn the 2020 presidential election, aiming to show it led to widespread ...

Jurors in a civil trial Tuesday found that Bill Cosby sexually abused a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1975, awarding Judy Huth, who is now 64, $500,000 US.

Two Canadians — one of them sought by Interpol — have been found dead of knife wounds in Mexico's Caribbean coast resort of Playa del Carmen, the state prosecutor's office said Tuesday. ...

Law enforcement authorities had enough officers on the scene of the Uvalde school massacre to have stopped the gunman three minutes after he entered the building, the Texas public safety chief testifi...

Britain's biggest rail strike in 30 years kicked off on Tuesday as tens of thousands of staff walked out in a dispute over pay and jobs that could pave the way for widespread industrial action across ...

Two Florida deputies have each been suspended for about two weeks for leaking news about actor and comedian Bob Saget's death before his family was alerted, officials said.

Canada will spend $4.9 billion over the next six years to modernize continental defence, Defence Minister Anita Anand said Monday.

Europe's biggest buyers of Russian gas raced to find alternative fuel supplies on Monday and could burn more coal to cope with reduced gas flows from Russia that threaten an energy crisis in winter if...

Jihadists killed 132 civilians in multiple attacks on villages in central Mali over the weekend, the government says, in the latest major incident in a worsening security situation.

The Nobel Peace Prize that Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov auctioned off to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees sold Monday night for $103.5 million US, shattering the old record for a Nobel. ...

Israel's weakened coalition government on Monday decided to dissolve parliament and call new elections. The vote could bring about the return of a nationalist religious government or another prolonged...

Authorities in India and Bangladesh struggled Monday to deliver food and drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people evacuated from their homes in days of flooding that have submerged wide swath...