The Canadian whose body was found at the site of a collapsed condo building in southern Florida has been identified as a 66-year-old woman who died alongside her husband.

The apparent ease with which a former U.S. diplomat convinced the Syrian Kurds to investigate and release a Canadian woman he helped — with no clear evidence that other detainees were being offered ...

A storm that has lashed the Caribbean and the Florida Keys with pounding rain and gusty winds and complicated the search for survivors in a deadly condominium collapse has strengthened into a hurrican...

The Pentagon said Tuesday it cancelled a disputed cloud-computing contract with Microsoft that could eventually have been worth $10 billion US. It will instead pursue a deal with both Microsoft and Am...

U.S. President Joe Biden issued a plea to Americans to get vaccinated as a way for the country to continue to reopen after 16 months of the COVID-19 pandemic and to protect themselves against the delt...

Jorginho converted the decisive penalty kick Tuesday to give Italy a 4-2 shootout win over Spain and a spot in the European Championship final.

Created by Dutch designer Wilfred Stijger, the sandcastle in northwest Denmark shattered the old Guinness World Record for tallest sandcastle by 3.5 metres, at a grand height of 21.16 metres tall. ...

An Egyptian court on Tuesday lifted a three-month-long judicial seizure of a hulking shipping vessel that had blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week earlier this year, paving the way for it to leav...

People who work fewer hours per week are not only happier, but also more productive at their jobs, according to a large-scale pilot program in Iceland.

The European Union says it will harness banks and markets to funnel hundreds of billions of euros annually into sustainable investments and create the first "climate-neutral continent" by 2050. ...

The weekend death of a 24-year-old man has sparked widespread condemnation after friends of the victim claim he was targeted and beaten to death for being gay. The death comes amid a spike in attacks ...

A plane with 28 people on board went missing in the Russian Far East region of Kamchatka on Tuesday, local officials said.

Father Stan Swamy, a Jesuit priest and longtime Indian tribal rights activist who was jailed in 2020 under India's harsh anti-terror law, died Monday in the western Indian city of Mumbai. He was 84. ...

Tropical storm Elsa swept over western Cuba with strong rain and winds on Monday, and forecasters said it would move on to the Florida Keys on Tuesday and Florida's central Gulf Coast by Wednesday. ...

Foreign Minister Marc Garneau said he reaffirmed Canada's support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during his recent five-day trip to the Middle East, adding that both si...

A medical examiner in Michigan says an autopsy has determined that Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Matiss Kivlenieks died of chest trauma from an errant fireworks mortar blast, and not a fall as auth...

Spain has restored nightlife restrictions weeks after they were lifted due to a surge in COVID-19 cases among unvaccinated young adults. On Friday, the 14-day contagion rate among those aged 20 to 29 ...

Pope Francis, 84, is alert, breathing without assistance and in a good overall condition following surgery to remove half of his colon, the Vatican said on Monday.

Filmmaker Richard Donner, who helped create the modern superhero blockbuster with 1978's Superman and mastered the buddy comedy with the Lethal Weapon franchise, has died. He was 91.

The discovery of four more victims in the rubble of a collapsed Florida condominium building raised the death toll to 32, a fire official said Tuesday, as a ramped-up search effort faced new threats f...