Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, an arch-conservative and one of the country's most divisive figures, was shot and critically wounded during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan. He was...

Chile is on the cusp of replacing its Pinochet-era constitution with a radically progressive new alternative. But not everyone’s on board with this bold new direction.

As the flood cleanup at Yellowstone National Park grinds on, climate experts and meteorologists say the gap between the destruction and what was forecast underscores a troublesome aspect of climate ch...

U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner has pleaded guilty in a Russian court to drug charges that could see the WNBA star face 10 years in prison.

Soaring food and energy prices have pushed a staggering 71 million more people into poverty around the world, with inflation rising in the weeks following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the United Nati...

President Joe Biden on Thursday presented the nation's highest civilian honour, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 17 people, including gymnast Simone Biles and soccer player Megan Rapinoe. ...

A U.S. federal judge sentenced former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to 21 years in prison for violating George Floyd's civil rights.

The overturning of Roe v. Wade has sparked legal battles across the U.S., as individual state trigger laws restricting access to abortion procedures. But the legal status of medication used to ter...

Disneyland Resort's Facebook and Instagram accounts were hacked earlier on Thursday, with a series of inappropriate posts that were subsequently taken down, Walt Disney Co. said.

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia had barely got started in Ukraine and dared the West to try to defeat it on the battlefield, while insisting that Moscow was still open to the ide...

The man charged with killing seven people at a Fourth of July parade in suburban Chicago confessed to police that he unleashed a hail of bullets from a rooftop and then fled to a neighbouring state, ...

The U.S. aviation system is expected to "remain challenged this summer and beyond," and the Federal Aviation Administration needs more air traffic control staff, a senior United Airlines executive sai...

A federal judge Wednesday sentenced Jerry Harris, a former star of the Netflix documentary series Cheer, to 12 years in prison for coercing teenage boys to send him obscene photos and videos of thems...

More than a thousand grieving family and community members are attending the funeral in South Africa's East London for 21 teenagers who died in a mysterious tragedy at a nightclub nearly two weeks ago...

A police officer armed with a rifle watched the gunman in the Uvalde elementary school massacre walk toward the campus but did not fire while waiting for permission from a supervisor to shoot, accordi...

President Joe Biden spoke Wednesday with the wife of detained WNBA player Brittney Griner, who is on trial in Russia, and assured her that that he is working to win Griner's freedom as soon as possibl...

Physicians say it's not always clear when an intervention will be allowed under life-saving exceptions to abortion bans in U.S. states. One ob-gyn asked: “What does the risk of death have to be, and...

Los Angeles jurors have found 32-year-old Eric Holder guilty of first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of rapper Nipsey Hussle in 2019.

The World Health Organization says 6,000 known cases of monkeypox have been recorded in 58 countries, but a lack of testing makes it difficult to determine the scale and spread of the virus. ...