Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said.

Ukraine claimed to have destroyed bridges and ammunition depots and pounded command posts in a surge of fighting in the Russian-occupied south, fuelling speculation Tuesday that its long-awaited count...

NASA is now targeting Saturday for the launch of its Artemis I mission, which looks to put an uncrewed spacecraft in orbit around the moon, after Monday's planned launch was scrubbed.  ...

Taiwan fired warning shots at a Chinese drone which buzzed an offshore islet on Tuesday shortly after President Tsai Ing-wen said she had ordered Taiwan's military to take "strong countermeasures" aga...

The United Nations and Pakistan issued an appeal Tuesday for more than $160 million US in emergency funding to help millions affected by record-breaking floods that have killed more than 1,150 people...

More than 1,000 foreign companies have exited or curtailed their business in Russia since the start of the Ukraine war. But Moscow's tensions with the West have not diminished the appetites of average...

Maine's highest court on Tuesday ruled that a statewide vote against a $1-billion hydroelectric project was unconstitutional. If allowed to go through, the transmission lines would see Hydro-Québec s...

Greenland's rapidly melting ice sheet will eventually raise global sea levels by at least 27 centimetres — more than twice as much as previously forecast — according to a study published Monday. ...

Armed supporters of a powerful Iraqi cleric who clashed with security forces in the capital began to withdraw from the streets Tuesday, restoring a measure of calm after a serious escalation of the na...

It is possible to eliminate the monkeypox outbreak in Europe, World Health Organization officials said on Tuesday, highlighting evidence that case counts are slowing in a handful of countries. ...

New U.S. labour report finds job vacancies rose in July. That may negatively impact the Federal Reserve's plan to cool down demand for labour and the general economy to get to its 2 per cent inflation...

Ukraine announced on Monday the start of a long-awaited counter-offensive to retake territory in the south as a team from the UN nuclear watchdog headed to the country to inspect the Zaporizhzhia nucl...

Canada announces humanitarian assistance for Pakistan as satellite images show high levels of flooding along the Indus River as well as the cities of Rajanpur and Rojhan in the province of Punjab. ...

Influential Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced Monday that he would resign from Iraqi politics, prompting hundreds of his angry followers to storm the government palace. At least 10 protesters were...

The debut space flight of NASA's "mega moon rocket" at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida could take place as early as Friday, after Monday morning's first attempt to launch the Artemis mission was s...

Stocks closed broadly lower on Wall Street Monday, adding to their hefty losses from last week when the U.S. Federal Reserve pledged to keep interest rates high as long as it takes to tame inflation. ...

Taylor Swift took home the top prize for video of the year at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday before closing out the show with a surprisingly big announcement: Her new album.

Deaths from widespread flooding in Pakistan topped 1,000 since mid-June, officials said Sunday, as the country's climate minister called the deadly monsoon season "a serious climate catastrophe." ...

Six months into the Russia-Ukraine conflict, there are no signs of slowing from either side. Without a clear picture of how the next six months will unfold, analysts say one thing is certain — Ukrai...