We take a closer look at the 16 World Cup stadiums for this year's tournament.

A suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean has killed three people and sickened at least three others, the World Health Organization and South Africa's Department of Health said on Sunday.

U.S. President Donald Trump says a project will start on Monday to help stranded ships leave the Strait of Hormuz, but he offered few details.

Rudolph Giuliani, the ex-mayor of New York City and a former adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, is in critical but stable condition at a hospital, his spokesperson said Sunday.

Authorities have determined that buckshot from the gun of the man charged with trying to storm the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in an attempt to kill U.S. President Donald Trump struck a Secret Service agent, according to the federa...

The walls of a corridor that once linked two theatres in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii hold hundreds of inscriptions made by residents before Mount Vesuvius erupted almost 2,000 years ago. An international research team is now using a very modern...

Ukraine on Sunday launched a wave of strikes against Russian oil targets, hitting a key loading port on the Baltic Sea and two tankers that Ukraine alleges were illegally used to transport Russian crude.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he was reviewing a new Iranian proposal to end the war but also expressed skepticism it would lead to a deal.

One of New York's hottest events is under pressure this year — not from declining attendance, glamour or budget — but from criticism, bad press and even calls for a boycott.

Worldwide press freedom has fallen to its lowest level in 25 years, according to NGO Reporters Without Borders. For the first time since its World Press Freedom Index launched in 2002, more than half of the world’s countries fall into the 'difficul...

Former teen track prodigy, Mary Cain, delves into the years of psychological abuse and body shaming that forced her to leave the sport she loved.

The head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Saturday the life of jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi was in the hands of the Iranian authorities after her health "deteriorated seriously," and called for her to be released to her ...

Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon killed at least seven people and wounded others on Saturday while the Israeli military demolished parts of a Catholic convent in a border village, officials said.

Bankrupt discount carrier Spirit Airlines ‌ceased operations on Saturday, the industry's first casualty linked to the Iran war, after failing to secure creditor support for a U.S. government bailout plan.

A spokesperson for a group trying to break the Israeli navy blockade of Gaza to deliver aid says two Canadians who were detained by Israel in the Mediterranean Sea have been released.

Two people were killed after a Russian drone attack on a minibus in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, local officials said Saturday, in the latest barrage of civilian areas, a hallmark of Moscow's full-scale invasion of its neighbour.

Alex Zanardi, the Italian auto racing champion-turned-Paralympic gold medalist whose career was marked by two life-altering accidents, has died. He was 59.

In Mauritius, home to nearly 250 species of coral and 150 kilometres of reef, the decline has been stark. But restoration efforts are beginning to show promise.

A senior Iranian soccer official says he’s been in contact with "relevant authorities" after Canada’s immigration minister confirmed the government revoked travel documents granted to a former commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Cor...

In a letter to congressional leaders on Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump declared that a ceasefire had "terminated" hostilities against Iran, as he sought to bolster his argument that he does not need lawmakers' permission to continue the conflict...