Facebook has created a fork-in-the-road moment for Donald Trump. And for all of us. Whether he gets back his online megaphone is only the first step. The longer-term question raised in a mixed decisio...

Twenty candidates are running for mayor of London in this Thursday's election, each offering their own particular spin on how they'll revive the U.K.'s biggest city post-pandemic.

In our push for a human presence in space, there has been a group who have been left out, no matter how well-educated, fit or skilled they are: people with physical disabilities. The European Space Ag...

As India's health-care system teeters on the verge of collapse during a brutal second wave of the novel coronavirus, a young doctor is among the medical professionals forced to decide who will live an...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has approached the governor of Michigan about the possibility of having essential workers who cross the border from Canada vaccinated against COVID-19 stateside. ...

Myanmar's security forces are arresting and forcibly disappearing thousands of people, especially boys and young men, in a sweeping bid to break the back of a three-month uprising against a military t...

Britain's government said Wednesday it is sending two navy patrol vessels to monitor the situation on the island of Jersey amid an escalating dispute with France over fishing rights in the waters ther...

U.S. President Joe Biden's administration on Wednesday joined calls for more sharing of the technology behind COVID-19 vaccines to help speed the end of the pandemic, a shift that puts the U.S. alongs...

The Facebook Oversight Board has upheld the decision by the social media giant to suspend former U.S. president Donald Trump's account, though it also had criticism for the company's policies.  ...

Ending a marriage is always hard on the dependents — and Bill and Melinda Gates have a lot of them. Here's a look at the future of the multibillion-dollar Gates Foundation and whether the organizati...

India accounted for nearly half the coronavirus cases reported worldwide last week, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, as the country's deaths rose by a new high of 3,780 during the last...

In a further move toward returning the U.S.'s largest city to pre-pandemic normality, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says tickets to Broadway shows will go on sale Thursday for performances beginning on...

Peloton is recalling its treadmills, including about 5,400 in Canada, due to safety issues. One model, not available in Canada, has made headlines for pulling children and pets underneath it, while th...

Teams of experts are projecting that COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the United States will fall sharply by the end of July, according to research released by the government on Wednesda...

A Malian woman gave birth to nine babies on Tuesday — two more than doctors had detected inside her crowded womb. She joins a small pantheon of mothers of nonuplets.

Within days, a couple of weeks at most, the cicadas of Brood X will emerge in 15 U.S. states after 17 years underground.

The United Nations human rights office said it was "deeply alarmed" over violence against protesters in the Colombian city of Cali, where "police opened fire on demonstrators" and allegedly killed and...

Health Canada approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children 12 and older on Wednesday, prompting Alberta, Manitoba, B.C. and the Northwest Territories to announce they would offer the shot to kids...

Russia has finally released its own film treatment of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, a testament to the heroic deeds by those sent to ground zero during the catastrophe. But for many who were there i...

The death toll from the collapse of an overpass on the Mexico City metro rose to 24 on Tuesday as crews untangled train carriages from the steel and concrete wreckage that fell onto a roadway. ...