It's the hottest debate in U.S. politics — one potential rule change that could change everything when it comes to passing laws in Congress. The Senate's filibuster rule has created a graveyard of b...

AstraZeneca said its COVID-19 vaccine had a 76 per cent efficacy rate at preventing symptomatic illness in a new analysis of its major U.S. trial — slightly lower than the level announced earlie...

Kurdish authorities responsible for the prisons and detention camps holding ISIS militants and their family members in northern Syria have accused Canada of shirking its responsibility by failing to b...

A skyscraper-sized container ship that is wedged across Egypt's Suez Canal, blocking all traffic in the vital waterway has been partially refloated, an encouraging sign for the dozens of ships backed ...

The UN human rights office said on Wednesday it confirmed the accuracy of published remarks by the independent expert who led an investigation into the murder of Jamal Khashoggi alleging that a senio...

The jury that will decide the fate of Derek Chauvin, a white former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd's death, is unusually diverse by local standards, and that's boosting activists' ...

Every winter, dozens of Russians and international visitors lace up their special ice cleats and embark on a remarkable 42-kilometre run across Siberia's Lake Baikal. This year was no different. Stu...

A new and potentially troublesome variant of the coronavirus has been detected in India, health officials said Wednesday, though they cautioned against linking it with an ongoing surge in new infectio...

Hundreds of people imprisoned for protesting last month's coup in Myanmar were released Wednesday in the first apparent gesture by the military to try to placate the protest movement.

Ethiopia's leader on Tuesday said atrocities have been reported in Tigray, his first public acknowledgement of possible war crimes in the country's northern region where fighting persists as governmen...

Hong Kong suspended use of the vaccine created by Pfizer and BioNTech Wednesday after its Chinese distributor informed the city that one batch had defective bottle lids.

U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration has warned asylum seekers against trying to enter the country, but that has not deterred desperate migrants who are flocking to the border in the belief his...

Results from a U.S. trial of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine may have included "outdated information" and that could mean the company provided an incomplete view of efficacy data, U.S. federal health o...

The small robotic helicopter that will help the newest Mars rover explore the Red Planet has been freed from its debris shield and could conduct its first flight no earlier than April 8, NASA engin...

George Segal, the Oscar-nominated actor who sparred with Richard Burton in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, romanced Glenda Jackson in A Touch of Class and won laughs in the TV sitcom The Goldbergs,Â...

Canada may have the unfortunate distinction of being the first country to face the possibility of trying its top military commander — and possibly its former top general — for sexual misconduct of...

Airbnb Inc. is being called on to drop its sponsorship connections to next year's Beijing's Winter Olympics by a coalition of 150 human-rights campaigners opposing the human rights violations occurrin...

The suspect accused of opening fire inside a crowded Colorado supermarket was a 21-year-old man who purchased an assault weapon less than a week earlier, authorities said Tuesday, a day after the atta...

As Israel holds its fourth election in two years, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who leads the right-wing Likud party, is currently on trial in three separate cases involving fraud, breach of trus...

Microsoft Corp. will start allowing more employees to work from its headquarters in Redmond, Washington and nearby campuses as soon as next week.