Delayed by the pandemic for a year, the 26th UN Conference of the Parties (COP26) began in Glasgow Sunday. Though the chances of success have been described by the British hosts as "touch and go", man...

In 2007, Mohammed Nabi Wardak, then 18, started work as an interpreter for Canadian Forces in Afghanistan. Now, he is homeless and jobless in Greece, after fleeing his homeland due to threats from the...

The British Transport Police has declared a major incident after two trains collided in the southwestern English city of Salisbury on Sunday, injuring a number of people.

Canada wanted a stronger and more ambitious agreement on climate change to emerge from the G20 summit — but leaders still managed to make progress by committing to address some key issues, Prime Min...

After seeing the devastating effects of climate change in his country, Ugandan climate activist Nyombi Morris has a message for world leaders at COP26: "Put an end to fossil fuels and make polluters p...

OECD Secretary General Mathias Cormann says a global deal reached on taxing rights and a minimum corporate tax is a broad consensus that represents an ambitious but pragmatic approach to the issue. ...

A man dressed in Batman's Joker costume and brandishing a knife on a Tokyo commuter train on Sunday stabbed several passengers before starting a fire, which sent people scrambling to escape and jumpin...

The United Nations climate summit in Glasgow formally opened on Sunday, kicking off two weeks of intense diplomatic negotiations by almost 200 countries on how to tackle the common challenge of global...

Australia eased its international border restrictions on Monday for the first time in the pandemic, allowing some of its vaccinated public to travel freely and many families to reunite, sparking emoti...

Alec Baldwin has spoken publicly for the first time on camera about the cinematographer he fatally shot on the movie set of Rust, calling her a friend and saying he is in "constant contact" with her ...

Thousands of Sudanese poured into the streets on Saturday, chanting "revolution, revolution" to the sound of whistles and drums, to protest a military coup earlier this week that threatened to derail ...

Afghanistan has been wracked by decades of war and occupation. But former climate negotiator Samim Hoshmand says you cannot talk about the situation in Afghanistan without talking about the role clima...

Farm equipment manufacturer Deere & Co. reached a tentative labour agreement Saturday with the United Auto Workers union.

Leaders have expressed "broad support" for a landmark deal to establish a 15 per cent global minimum corporate tax that aims to deter multinational corporations from using clever accounting to elude ...

Former U.S. president Donald Trump is trying to block documents — including call logs, drafts of remarks and speeches and handwritten notes from his chief of staff relating to the Jan. 6 Capitol ins...

The city in northern Italy that suffered the brunt of COVID-19's first deadly wave in Europe is dedicating a grove of trees as a memorial to the pandemic dead. It's one of multiple memorials to the vi...

More than 160 buildings in a town in northwestern Myanmar, including at least two churches, have been destroyed by fires caused by shelling from government troops, local media and activists reported S...

After a whirlwind one-day trip to the Netherlands to meet a long-time ally and friend, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travels to Rome today for a G20 summit that may prove to be a more fractious event....

Lawyers for Prince Andrew asked a New York judge on Friday to throw out a lawsuit accusing him of sexually abusing an American when she was 17, saying the prince "never sexually abused or assaulted" t...

U.S. intelligence agencies said on Friday they may never be able to identify the origins of COVID-19, as they released a new, more detailed version of their review into whether the coronavirus was tra...