China's ceremonial legislature on Thursday endorsed the Communist Party's latest move to tighten control over Hong Kong by reducing the role of its public in picking the region's leaders. ...

Syria is a "living nightmare" where about half the children have never lived a day without war, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday to mark the conflict's 10th anniversary. ...

Japan on Thursday marked the 10th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that hit its northeastern region, where many survivors' lives are still on hold.

Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and the country's current president, Jair Bolsonaro, on Wednesday both fired an early starting gun on a 2022 election set to be dominated by the ra...

A highly infectious variant of COVID-19 that has spread around the world since it was first discovered in Britain late last year is between 30 per cent and 100 per cent more deadly than previous dom...

An Iowa jury on Wednesday acquitted a journalist who was pepper-sprayed and arrested by police while covering a protest in a case that critics have derided as an attack on press freedom and an abuse o...

Photos and paintings set under the frigid water, featuring creatures at risk of extinction due to climate change, are observed by visitors who must don diving gear.

As global media warn Canada's housing market is "a bonfire," some are calling for a Kiwi-style plan to calm the market and prevent a damaging real estate crash.

If you took a walk along Windsor's Riverfront Tuesday, you might have noticed that the Detroit River was looking especially clean and clear — an indication that the water quality is likely improvin...

A court has ruled that the man who inspired the film Hotel Rwanda was not kidnapped when he was tricked into boarding a chartered flight from Dubai to Rwanda, where he was arrested and now faces a cri...

The U.S. Senate confirmed Merrick Garland to be the next U.S. attorney general with a strong bipartisan vote Wednesday, placing the widely-respected, veteran judge in the post after he was snubbed by...

China and Russia said they will build a lunar research station, possibly on the moon's surface, marking the start of a new era in space co-operation between the two countries.

Roblox Corp. joined the ranks of the so-called "meme stocks" such as GameStop at the centre of social media-fuelled rallies that have gripped Wall Street when the gaming platform became a publicly tra...

Queen Elizabeth and her family said on Tuesday that they were saddened to learn of the experiences of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, saying they would address issues around race that were raised by...

Catastrophic flooding from a stream swollen by heavy rains prompted officials to order evacuations from a town north of Honolulu on Tuesday, just one day after fears of a dam breach resulted in the sa...

The Chinese government's actions in Xinjiang have violated every single act prohibited by the United Nations Genocide Convention, including one that forbids killing members of a group, says a new i...

An official from deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) died in custody after he was arrested early Tuesday — the second party figure to die in detention in ...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada has been warned about possible delays in the production of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which Health Canada approved last week.

The world economy is bouncing back from the pandemic crisis faster than expected, thanks in part to successful coronavirus vaccines and U.S. stimulus efforts, but the improvements are uneven and joble...