A feminism group from a U.K. high school is petitioning the government to ban school uniforms from being sold in costume and sex shops and worn in pornography.

Sri Lanka's acting president Ranil Wickremesinghe has declared a state of emergency, according to a government notice released late on Sunday, as his administration seeks to head off social unrest ...

Acting police chief placed on administrative leave as new report says nearly 400 law enforcement officials who rushed to the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, didn't enter the classroom for an ...

Three people were fatally shot and two were injured Sunday evening at an Indiana mall after a man with a rifle opened fire in a food court and an armed civilian shot and killed him, police said. ...

In the U.S. as in Canada, inflation has been most noticeable at the gas pump. But the jump in the cost of staples such as milk, eggs and flour is also hitting consumers and small businesses hard. In o...

Pope Francis said on Sunday his trip to Canada next week will be a "pilgrimage of penance" that he hopes can help heal the wrongs done to Indigenous people by Roman Catholic priests and nuns who ran a...

With COVID-19 restrictions largely lifted across the Caribbean, the summer Carnival season — with all of its costumes, music and dancing — has returned.

Experts investigating the site of a cargo plane crash in northern Greece said Sunday they have found no evidence of dangerous substances but say there is still a lot of widespread ordnance, while Serb...

Wildfires raged in southwestern France and Spain on Saturday, forcing thousands of people from their homes as blistering summer temperatures put authorities on alert in parts of Europe. ...

The Trudeau government is being pilloried in some quarters for waiving sanctions on turbines required for Germany's key natural gas pipeline. But how badly did Germany need those turbines? Will they s...

Russian forces fired missiles and shells at cities and towns across Ukraine on Saturday after Russia's military announced it was stepping up its onslaught against its neighbour. Ukrainian officials re...

Abortion restrictions in a number of U.S. states and the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade are having profound repercussions in reproductive medicine as well as in other areas of medica...

Two men were arrested Friday in connection with a series of robberies at Southern California 7-Eleven stores that left two people dead and three wounded. Police said the men are suspected in another k...

The head of the company now running the former McDonald's chain of restaurants in Russia told a business television channel that producers of french fries are refusing to supply to the country and war...

A Ukrainian city far from the front line grieved on Friday for its dead, including a four-year-old girl with Down syndrome, a day after a Russian missile attack killed at least 23 people and wounded s...

The U.S. congressional panel probing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol in Washington says it has subpoenaed the Secret Service as it investigates accusations by a watchdog that the agency erased...

Mexico's navy has captured drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, convicted of murdering a U.S. anti-narcotics agent in 1985, in a law enforcement coup that also saw the crash of a helicopter used in the mis...

The Kremlin says it has replaced the contentious head of its space agency, a man who had repeatedly threatened Russia would abandon the International Space Station if sanctions aren't lifted.  ...

Ivana Trump, former U.S. president Donald Trump's first wife who passed away on Thursday, died as a result of an accident after suffering blunt force trauma injuries to her torso, the New York City Of...