The Maha Kumbh Mela pilgrimage, one of the most important Hindu festivals that last week saw thousands upon thousands of people line the banks of the Ganges River in the holy city of Haridwar, is taki...

The one-year anniversary of the tightening at the Canada-U.S. border is approaching. Restrictions on border crossings will be extended another month. Pressure is growing for governments to explain the...

Myanmar activists planned more anti-coup rallies on Monday, a day after dozens of protesters were killed in clashes with security forces and unidentified assailants torched several Chinese-financed f...

London's police commissioner on Sunday defended her officers' actions and said she didn't intend to resign, after coming under heavy criticism for the way police treated some protesters during a vigil...

CBC News has learned a 4-year-old Canadian girl has been freed from a detention camp in Syria holding ISIS members after her mother asked a former U.S. diplomat to get the child to Canada. ...

India reported the year's biggest daily increase in COVID-19 cases on Sunday, with 25,320 new infections, a day ahead of a lockdown in the western state of Maharashtra, the epicentre of the renewed su...

There have been few signals so far regarding how the Royal Family will handle the fallout from the explosive interview Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, did with talk-show host Oprah Winfrey...

Marvelous Marvin Hagler, one of the great middleweights in boxing history, died Saturday at the age of 66. "He was a real man, loyal and just a fantastic person," promoter Bob Arum says. ...

On the one-year anniversary of Breonna Taylor's death, the slain Black woman's family continued their call for justice as hundreds of demonstrators gathered in downtown Louisville on Saturday. ...

The city of Minneapolis on Friday agreed to pay $27 million US to settle a civil lawsuit from George Floyd's family over the Black man's death in police custody, even as jury selection continued in a ...

British police have charged an officer with the kidnap and murder of 33-year-old Sarah Everard, whose disappearance last week has sparked anger and fears among women about their safety. ...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey revived allegations of racism against the Royal Family — allegations that weren't a surprise in Barbados. In November, the C...

Clashes broke out Saturday between police and people who gathered in defiance of COVID-19 restrictions at an unofficial vigil for a London woman whose killing has spurred a national conversation in th...

The monarchy is no stranger to scandal. So when another crisis shakes the Royal Family to its core, how does a 1,200-year old institution adapt and stay relevant?

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has said he's not going to resign in the wake of mounting allegations of sexual harassment and an allegation of groping, along with calls from multiple members of the stat...

Brazil's hospitals are faltering as a highly contagious coronavirus variant tears through the country, while the president insists on unproven treatments in the absence of an effective national plan t...

Gunmen in Nigeria's northwestern Kaduna state kidnapped a number of students from a college late on Thursday, a police spokesman and a state government official said on Friday, in the fourth mass sch...

One year after the nation was brought to a near-standstill by the coronavirus, U.S. President Joe Biden used his first prime-time address to outline his plan Thursday night to make all adults vaccine-...

Britain's most senior police officer has sought to reassure women it is safe to walk the streets of London at night after one of her officers was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and murdering 33-y...

Prince William defended Britain's monarchy Thursday against accusations of bigotry made by his brother, Prince Harry, and sister-in-law, Meghan, insisting the family is not racist.