A wing of a 12-storey beachfront condo building collapsed with a roar in a town outside Miami early Thursday, killing at least one person and trapping residents in rubble and twisted metal. Rescuers p...

A rare tornado and strong storms struck along the Czech Republic's southern border on Thursday, destroying parts of some towns, killing at least three people and injuring dozens more, emergency servic...

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made it official Thursday that she is creating a special committee to investigate the attack on the Capitol, saying it is "imperative that we seek the truth." ...

The United Nations heritage agency may move Venice to its list of endangered sites if the historic city continues to allow massive cruise ships to dock in his fragile canals. 

Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. now are in people who weren't vaccinated, a staggering demonstration of how effective the shots have been and an indication that deaths per day — currently dow...

U.S. President Joe Biden vowed on Thursday that Afghans who helped the U.S. military "are not going to be left behind" as his administration stepped up planning to evacuate thousands of Afghan interp...

Former Philippine president Benigno Aquino III, the son of pro-democracy icons who helped topple dictator Ferdinand Marcos and a defender of good governance who took China's sweeping territorial claim...

An appeals court has suspended Rudy Giuliani from practising law in New York state because he made false statements while trying to get courts to overturn Donald Trump's loss in the U.S. presidential ...

Ontario’s soon-to-be top doctor says he’s hopeful the COVID-19 pandemic will move to "an endemic state, where we can try to get back to normal,” this fall.

Buckingham Palace has for the first time released figures on the ethnic makeup of its staff, following the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's allegations of racism in the royal family.

John McAfee, the creator of McAfee antivirus software, was found dead in his jail cell near Barcelona in an apparent suicide Wednesday, hours after a Spanish court approved his extradition to the Unit...

Hong Kong's sole remaining pro-democracy newspaper published its last edition Thursday after five editors and executives were arrested and millions of dollars in its assets were frozen as part of Chin...

Ohio, the state that launched the national movement to offer millions of dollars in incentives to boost vaccination rates, planned to conclude its prize program Wednesday — still unable to crack the...

A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advisory group now says reports of heart inflammation in people given an mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine are likely linked to the vaccine, but tha...

Japan's Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that laws requiring married couples to have the same surname are constitutional, dismissing a challenge by three couples seeking to keep their original names. ...

Warren Buffett is resigning as a trustee from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The announcement comes weeks after the couple announced they were divorcing after 27 years of marriage but would co...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled in favour of a Pennsylvania teenager who sued after a profane social media post got her banished from her high school's cheerleading squad in a decision in a ...

Groups representing pilots, airline staff say they've seen a "substantial increase" and a "growing escalation" in unruly and disruptive behaviour from airline passengers, particularly toward crew memb...

More Ontarians living in designated hot spots for the delta COVID-19 variant are eligible to book earlier second vaccine doses starting today.

Russia said one of its warships in the Black Sea fired warning shots and a warplane dropped bombs Wednesday to force a British destroyer out of an area near Crimea that Moscow claims as its territoria...