The U.S. stands with the people of Cuba in their call for freedom and relief from the coronavirus pandemic and decades of repression, President Joe Biden said on Monday, the day after the Caribbean na...

Dozens of wildfires burned across the torrid U.S. West on Monday but fire agencies reported some progress in corralling the flames and forecasters predicted a gradual decrease in extreme temperatures....

A fire swept through a coronavirus ward in southern Iraq, killing at least 50 people and injuring dozens more, Iraqi medical officials said late Monday.

The United States is still reviewing a request for troops made by Haiti's interim prime minister to help secure key infrastructure after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, a White House sp...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday that it has received rare reports of Guillain-Barré syndrome among people who got Johnson & Johnson's Janssen shot. The vaccine has...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday ordered all French health-care workers to get COVID-19 vaccine shots by Sept. 15 and urged all of his compatriots to get vaccinated as soon as possible, to ...

Pfizer Inc's push for health regulators to authorize a third dose of its COVID-19 shot is not yet backed by evidence, despite the fast-spreading delta variant, vaccine experts said.

South Africa deployed soldiers on the streets Monday to quell violence that erupted in the wake of former president Jacob Zuma's jailing, after days of riots left at least six people dead. ...

All remaining lockdown restrictions in England will be lifted in a week despite a sharp rise in coronavirus cases, Britain's prime minister confirmed Monday, urging people to continue to take precauti...

Even with an option to watch Black Widow at home, audiences went to the movie theatre in pandemic record numbers this weekend to catch the first Marvel movie released in two years.

Haiti's police chief announced Sunday that officers have arrested a Haitian man accused of flying into the country on a private jet and working with the masterminds and alleged assassins behind the ki...

Three Black players who missed penalty kicks for England in the decisive European Championship shootout against Italy on Sunday night were subjected to racist abuse online, prompting the English Footb...

The 21 proposals include targets for reducing pesticide use, cutting plastic waste and channeling $200 billion US a year toward protecting nature in developing countries.

Former Nickelodeon television star Jared "Drake" Bell has been sentenced to two years of probation on charges relating to a teen he met online who attended one of his 2017 concerts in Cleveland when s...

Thousands of Cubans marched on Havana's Malecon promenade and elsewhere on the island Sunday to protest food shortages and high prices amid the coronavirus crisis, in one of the biggest anti-governmen...

Swashbuckling entrepreneur Richard Branson hurtled into space aboard his own winged rocket ship on Sunday, beating out fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos.

Firefighters working in searing weather struggled to contain a Northern California wildfire that continued to grow Sunday and forced the temporary closure of a major highway, one of several large blaz...

Authorities searching for victims of a deadly condominium collapse in Florida said Sunday they hope to conclude their painstaking work in the coming weeks as a team of first responders from Israel dep...

Italy overcame England's dream start to capture the European Championship with a shootout victory in the final of Euro 2020 at Wembley Stadium on Sunday.

Pope Francis on Sunday made his first public appearance since surgery last week, greeting well-wishers as he stood on a hospital balcony.