Canada's long-standing, stalwart support of Ukraine will be under new and intense pressure early in the new year as the West braces for possible military action by Russia, perhaps as soon as late Janu...

Los Angeles police fatally shot a 14-year-old girl who was inside a clothing store dressing room on Thursday as they fired at a suspect who had assaulted a woman earlier, authorities said. ...

Two more Hong Kong universities on Friday removed public monuments to the 1989 Tiananmen protests in Beijing, following on the heels of the dismantling of a sculpture marking victims of the crackd...

Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the West on Thursday to move quickly to meet Russia's demand for security guarantees precluding NATO's expansion to Ukraine and the deployment of the military al...

A massive fire swept through a crowded river ferry in southern Bangladesh early Friday, leaving at least 37 dead and 72 injured, as passengers jumped off the vessel and swam to the shore, officials sa...

Jurors on Thursday convicted former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter of two manslaughter charges in the killing of Daunte Wright, a Black motorist she shot during an April traffic stop after she sa...

The South Korean government said Friday it will grant a special pardon to former president Park Geun-hye, who is serving a lengthy prison term for bribery and other crimes.

Japan announced Friday it won't send a delegation of ministers to represent the government at the Beijing Games but three Olympic officials will attend, a mixed response to a U.S.-led move to boycott ...

Under pressure from U.S. auto safety regulators, Tesla has agreed to stop allowing video games to be played on centre touch screens while its vehicles are moving.

Author and essayist Joan Didion, whose precise social and personal commentary in such classics as The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking made her a uniquely clear-eyed critic of turbulent ti...

A monument at a Hong Kong university that commemorates the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre was removed by workers early Thursday over the objections of its creator from Denmark.

China is redoubling efforts to control new virus outbreaks with a lockdown of the 13 million residents of the northern city of Xi'an following a spike in coronavirus cases.

The Oscar-nominated actor has acknowledged sleeping with students of an acting school he previously ran, saying he struggled with sex addiction and has been working to improve his behaviour in recent...

Canada reported more than 20,000 new COVID-19 cases for the first time on Thursday, a culmination of a record-shattering day that saw several provinces confirm new highs in infections.

Authorities in Nigeria have destroyed about one million expired doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine even as the West African country's vaccination rate has almost doubled in the last week amid a spi...

The U.S. has opened a formal investigation into Tesla allowing drivers to play video games on a centre touch screen while its vehicles are moving.

Scientists say an amazingly well-preserved fossil egg adds more evidence to the close links between dinosaurs and modern birds.

Dozens of people are feared missing after a landslide early on Wednesday at a jade mine in northern Myanmar, according to a civil society group and media reports.

The U.S. economy grew at a 2.3 per cent rate in the third quarter, slightly better than previously thought, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. But prospects for a solid rebound going forward are...

A British court on Tuesday ordered the ruler of Dubai to pay his ex-wife and their children close to 550 million pounds (roughly $942 million Cdn), in one of the most expensive divorce settlements in ...