Twenty years after the nation-rattling attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, some of the American veterans affected reflect on their legacy.

Tens of thousands of people in Afghanistan were airlifted out of the country last month as the Taliban swept to power. Many more are still trying to escape. Here's a look at where the country's refuge...

U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday said he will require all federal employees and contractors to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and the U.S. Department of Labour will issue a rule requiring busines...

The Biden administration on Thursday sued Texas, in an effort to block enforcement of a new law that almost entirely bans abortion in the state.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday said he never intended to attack any branch of the government, comments that boosted markets as he sought to defuse a dispute with the Supreme Court. ...

Some 200 foreigners, including Canadians and Americans, left Afghanistan on a commercial flight out of Kabul on Thursday with the co-operation of the Taliban — the first such large-scale departure s...

With U.K. roads clogged to pre-pandemic levels and ridership on London’s subway soaring, many people are acting as if the pandemic is over - even though there are now 40,000 new COVID-19 cases a day...

A private security company in Kabul founded by an ex-member of JTF2, the elite counter-terrorism unit of the Canadian Forces, is credited with rescuing more than 100 Afghans with ties to Canada. ...

Researchers who estimate how much of the world's coal, oil and natural gas reserves should be left unburned to slow the increase in climate-changing gases in the atmosphere have come up with a new, bi...

Japan's prime minister announces an extension of a state of emergency in Tokyo and 18 other areas until the end of September, saying health-care systems remain under severe strain, and that the contin...

Hong Kong police on Thursday raided the premises of the closed June 4th Museum, dedicated to the victims of China's 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Squar...

Moderna Inc. said on Thursday it was developing a single-dose vaccine that combines a booster dose against COVID-19 and a booster against flu, a day after Novavax announced its own plans. ...

A former nurse who co-founded and once ran the cult-like NXIVM group, where prosecutors say women were brainwashed, branded like animals and coerced into sex, was sentenced Wednesday to 42 months in p...

One of the largest Confederate monuments in the U.S. came down Wednesday as workers removed a figure of Gen. Robert E. Lee that towered over Virginia's capital city for more than a century and became ...

Canada's diplomats and development officials praised this country's progress on the effort to promote gender equality in Afghanistan in the months before the Taliban swept to power. Experts now questi...

The Taliban's appointment of hardline veteran figures to top cabinet positions in Afghanistan was widely seen as a signal Wednesday that the group was not looking to broaden its base and present a...

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said on Wednesday that the organization had helped around 100 members of the "Olympic community" in Afghanistan to leave the country on humanitari...

With a heavy security presence, the trial of 20 men accused in a series of co-ordinated attacks on Paris in 2015 that spread fear across Europe and transformed France opened Wednesday in a custom-buil...

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro got a rousing reception from tens of thousands of people gathered in the capital Tuesday in an Independence Day show of support for the right-wing leader embroiled in...

A powerful earthquake struck southwestern Mexico near the beach resort of Acapulco on Tuesday night, killing at least one man who was crushed by a falling post, and causing rock falls and damaging b...