A Republican former U.S. attorney general is pleading with his fellow Americans: cool down the ill-informed speculation threatening to engulf the country’s politics. The police search at Donald Trum...

Polio, a potentially disabling virus that’s long been forgotten in many parts of the world, is now circulating in parts of the U.S. and U.K., on the heels of an outbreak in Israel. Medical experts s...

Firefighters were battling a wildfire in southwestern France on Wednesday in a region known for its pine forests that was ravaged by flames last month.

Hundreds of Bulgarians took to the streets of Sofia on Wednesday to voice fears that the country's caretaker government could break with the policies of its pro-Western predecessor and revert to close...

Muslims in New Mexico interviewed on Wednesday said they felt shock and shame at the arrest of a Muslim immigrant from Afghanistan in connection with the murders of four Muslim men.

Health Canada yet to say whether it will follow U.S. in giving people one-fifth of the standard dose of monkeypox vaccine as it scrambles to immunize at-risk groups with limited vaccine supply. ...

Russian authorities on Wednesday detained a former state TV journalist who quit after making an on-air protest against Moscow's war in Ukraine and charged her with spreading false information about Ru...

U.S. President Joe Biden started the summer with his presidency seeming doomed: he was unpopular, his legislative record derided as unaccomplished. He’s suddenly on a hot streak with Congress passin...

Elon Musk has sold nearly $7 billion US worth of shares in Tesla as the billionaire gets his finances in order ahead of his court battle with Twitter. Musk says he made the move to avoid an emergency...

The torrid increase in the cost of living showed signs of finally easing last month, with the U.S. inflation rate cooling to 8.5 per cent.

China's military has "completed various tasks" around Taiwan but will conduct regular patrols, it said on Wednesday, potentially signalling an end to days of war games but also that Beijing will keep ...

Host nation Qatar is set to play in the opening game of its own World Cup tournament after all — and on a stand-alone day being added to the schedule barely 100 days before kickoff.

While it's in negotiations with the International Monetary Fund to come to a bailout agreement, the Sri Lankan government is scrambling to scrape together enough money to keep the economy afloat. ...

Ex-military legal officer Cory Moore helped 12 Afghan military lawyers and other staff apply for Canada's special one-year immigration program for Afghans. That program has since closed, but these fam...

Serena Williams says she is ready to step away from tennis after winning 23 Grand Slam titles, turning her focus to having another child and her business interests.

A 51-year-old man from Afghanistan was charged Tuesday with killing two Muslim men in Albuquerque, N.M., and authorities said he is suspected in the slayings of two others whose deaths sparked fear in...

Powerful explosions rocked a Russian air base in Crimea and sent towering clouds of smoke over the landscape Tuesday in what may mark an escalation of the war in Ukraine. At least one person was kille...

Water levels in rivers, lakes and reservoirs across western Europe are running low, or even dry, amid the most severe drought in decades

Israeli troops killed three Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants and wounded dozens in a shootout that erupted during an arrest raid in the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank Tuesday. Palestinian...