Later this week, Barbados Governor General Sandra Mason will be sworn in as president and usher in a new republican government for the island nation. While the move is hailed by many, others are upset...

A court in Myanmar postponed its verdict on Tuesday in the trial of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to allow testimony from an additional witness.

Talks between world powers and Iran to revive a 2015 nuclear deal have resumed in Vienna for the first time in five months. EU, Iranian and Russian diplomats sounded upbeat about their progress on Mo...

Jewish communities around the world celebrated the first of eight days of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, on Sunday, closing another year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prosecutors have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the ruling that overturned comedian Bill Cosby's sexual assault conviction, arguing in a petition Monday that a decision not to prosecute announ...

Drone footage captured the sight of over 1,100 hectares of La Palma, Spain, covered in lava, as a new vent opened on the volcano overnight and the cone of the volcano emitted smoke. (Credit: REUTERS/B...

The U.S. National Labor Relations Board has ordered a new union election for Amazon workers in Bessemer, Ala., based on objections to the first vote that took place in April. 

The United States is pressing Canada to commit medical units and drones to United Nations' missions at a peacekeeping summit in South Korea next week, and to come up with the 200-strong force first pr...

Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were "partners in crime" in the sexual abuse of teenage girls, a prosecutor said Monday in opening statements, with the defence countering that like so many women...

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey will step down as the company's chief executive officer and will be replaced by Parag Agrawal, the company's chief technical officer.

Jussie Smollett "is a real victim" of a "real crime," his lawyer told jurors on Monday at the start of the former Empire actor's trial, despite prosecutors' claim that he staged a homophobic and ra...

Japan said on Monday it would close its borders to foreigners, as the world's third-largest economy joined Israel in taking the toughest measures against the new coronavirus variant omicron, which al...

Quebec has confirmed one case of the new omicron COVID-19 variant, while two more cases have been confirmed in Ottawa, bringing the total in the city to four.

The U.K has always been a popular destination for Canadian students, but the tide is starting to flow both ways.

Ottawa says it’s doing all it can to quickly process Afghan refugees, but advocates say many — including those who worked for the Canadian government in Afghanistan — find themselves languishing...

Lee Elder, who broke down racial barriers as the first Black golfer to play in the Masters and paved the way for Tiger Woods and others to follow, has died at the age of 87.

An apology service this week marked a major step forward for reconciliation in Sweden, where the Indigenous Sámi people continue to fight for self-determination and recognition of past wrongs committ...

A court in Siberia on Saturday remanded five people in custody for two months to face charges related to a coal mining accident that killed more than 50 people this week and left dozens injured. ...

France's government is offering to discuss some autonomy for the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe, which have been wracked by virus-related rioting and strikes that reflect long-r...

At least three people have died in the U.K. after the year's first winter storm battered parts of the nation with gusts of nearly 160 km/h.