The European Union aims to halt air travel from the southern African region amid rising concern about a new COVID-19 variant detected in South Africa, EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen sai...

New research suggests the risk of extreme wildfire events is increasing across the globe, with some of the largest increases in Western Canada.

A devastating explosion in a Siberian coal mine Thursday left 52 miners and rescuers dead about 250 metres underground, Russian officials said.

The deaths of at least 27 people in the English Channel is fuelling tensions between the U.K. and France over how to stop migrants from crossing the world's busiest waterway in small boats. ...

Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday started hearing a petition to shut down one of the country's oldest and most prominent human rights groups, a move that elicited public outrage and is part of a mont...

Balloons, floats, marching bands, clowns and performers — and, of course, Santa Claus — once again moved though roughly four kilometres of Manhattan streets on Thursday as the Macy's Thanksgivin...

A new coronavirus variant has been detected in South Africa that scientists say is a concern, as Germany tops 100,000 COVID-19 deaths.

Australia is sending police, troops and diplomats to the Solomon Islands to help after anti-government demonstrators defied lockdown orders and took to the streets for a second day in violent protests...

The U.S. government will send 44 military medical staffers to Michigan to help beleaguered hospitals treat COVID-19 patients amid a fourth surge that is the worst in the country, state health official...

Three men were convicted of murder Wednesday in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, the Black man who was running through a neighbourhood in a Georgia city when the white strangers chased him, trapped him ...

Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael and William 'Roddie' Bryan were convicted of murder on Wednesday in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery. Here's a look at how much prison time they could get what o...

A large explosion outside a school in Somalia's capital on Thursday has killed at least eight people, including students, witnesses said. The extremist group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the ...

A U.K. MP has been told she can't bring her three-month-old baby into the House of Commons, prompting others to demand a change in parliamentary rules.

Scientists recorded corals in Australia's Great Barrier Reef spawning in an explosion of colour as the World Heritage-listed natural wonder recovers from life-threatening coral bleaching episodes. ...

Three German parties have reached a deal to form a new government that will end the era of longtime Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to Olaf Scholz, who is poised to replace her.

Hours after being tapped as Sweden's prime minister, Magdalena Andersson resigned Wednesday after suffering a budget defeat in parliament and coalition partner the Greens left the two-party minority ...

NASA launched a spacecraft Tuesday night on a mission to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth. ...

Germany is poised to pass the mark of 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 this week, a sombre milestone that several of its neighbours crossed months ago but which Western Europe's most populous nation had h...

An attorney for the family of Brian Laundrie, who had been the subject of a manhunt for more than a month as investigators searched for clues in the slaying of his girlfriend, Gabby Petito, said Tuesd...

CVS, Walgreens and Walmart pharmacy chains recklessly distributed massive amounts of pain pills in two Ohio counties amid overdose deaths, a federal jury said Tuesday in a verdict that could set the t...