Canada's Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, facing a possible election defeat and a barrage of criticism over climate and foreign policies, tried to paint his Conservative rival as unready to lead on a debate stage Thursday. The nationally tele...

Australian police on Friday said they had charged a woman for her alleged role in a coup hoax that featured a fake recording of the police chief calling for the government to be toppled. Earlier this year, a 43-minute audio clip circulated purporti...

When hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Centre in the United States, Afghans were still reeling from their own Al-Qaeda tragedy. Militants from the group had two days earlier assassinated Ahmad Shah Massoud -- the resistance icon who rep...

Wallabies coach Dave Rennie denied he was panicking Friday after calling up mercurial playmaker Quade Cooper for the first time in four years as he looks to snap a win drought when Australia face world champions South Africa. The 33-year-old flyhal...

In Stavanger's harbour, the Petroleum Museum chronicles Norway's road to riches. Now, faced with the climate crisis, a growing chorus wants fossil fuels to be relegated to history for good. The "code red" sounded by the United Nations in early Augu...

Oil-rich Norway goes to the polls on Monday in elections dominated by climate change that the ruling Conservative party is widely expected to lose to a Labour-led coalition. Labour Party leader Jonas Gahr Store is hoping to wrest power from centre-...

"Bad memories" from Roland Garros may have foiled Maria Sakkari at the U.S. Open on Thursday, as the 17th seed fell in the semi-final of a Grand Slam for the second time this year.

With a bisexual protagonist who wields a mysterious superpower, the new instalment of "Life is Strange" is the latest in a growing array of video games that place LGBTQ characters in the spotlight. Like previous games in the popular series, "Life i...

With no masks in sight, buzzing offices and concerts drawing tens of thousands, Denmark on Friday ditches vaccine passports in nightclubs, ending its last Covid curb. The vaccine passports were introduced in March 2021 when Copenhagen slowly starte...

British 18-year-old qualifier Emma Raducanu and Canadian 19-year-old Leylah Fernandez completed astonishing runs to their historic first Grand Slam final on Thursday at the US Open. Raducanu became the first qualifier to ever reach a Grand Slam fin...

Emma Raducanu became the first qualifier to reach a Grand Slam final. Now the 18-year-old British sensation is one step from a historic US Open title. And a major reason for her success is influence from her Chinese heritage and the example of Li N...

New Zealand coach Ian Foster has warned Brodie Retallick to expect a tough workout from Argentina when the veteran lock leads the All Blacks for the first time Sunday in the Rugby Championship. Foster handed the captain's armband to Retallick for t...

From her father becoming a tennis coach with no experience to her mother moving away to support the family, Leylah Fernandez's dream run to the US Open has been a family affair. The 19-year-old Canadian advanced to her first Grand Slam final on Thu...

Dozens of local community politicians in Hong Kong swore a newly required loyalty oath to China on Friday after hundreds of their colleagues quit in protest as authorities try to purge the city of "unpatriotic" elements. District councillors are th...

A US Air Force base in the midwestern state of Ohio was in lockdown late Thursday following reports of an active shooter. Wright-Patterson Air Force base, just east of Dayton, Ohio, went into lockdown at approximately 9:25 pm (0125 GMT Friday), the...