An estimated 580 homes, a hotel and a shopping centre have burned and tens of thousands of people were evacuated in wind-fuelled wildfires outside Denver, officials said Thursday evening. ...

Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin spoke frankly for nearly an hour late Thursday amid growing alarm over Russia's troop buildup near Ukraine, a crisis that's deepened as the Kremlin has stiffene...

Prince Andrew wasn't on trial in the Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking case, but experts say her conviction is bad news for the man who is ninth in line to the British throne.

Afghanistan's former president Ashraf Ghani said he had no choice but to abruptly leave Kabul as the Taliban closed in and denied an agreement was in the works for a peaceful takeover, disputing the a...

Two friends from London fell in love with Vancouver and the West Coast vibe so much when they visited two years ago that they decided to open a Vancouver-themed restaurant in the British capital that ...

Hong Kong police have formally charged two of seven people from a non-profit pro-democracy news website with sedition, a day after the outlet said it would shut down following a police raid on its off...

With the Omicron variant causing COVID-19 cases numbers to soar across the country, early research suggests it is not causing higher levels of hospitalization.

New York City will ring in 2022 in Times Square as planned despite record numbers of COVID-19 infections in the city and around the country, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday.

Iran launched a rocket with a satellite carrier bearing three devices into space, authorities announced Thursday, without saying whether any of the objects had entered Earth's orbit.

A U.S. jury reached a guilty verdict on five of six charges in the trial of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who was accused of helping late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenaged...

China is urging the United States to protect a Chinese space station and its three-member crew after Beijing complained that satellites launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX nearly struck the station. ...

Relatives of a 14-year-old girl who was killed last week by Los Angeles police while shopping for Christmas clothes say the family moved from Chile to get away from violence and injustice. ...

Aspiring top dogs (and their owners) will have to wait for the annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show next year, the organization says, pointing to surging COVID-19 cases in New York as the reason fo...

A man accused of killing five people in a rampage in Denver is believed to have written fictional books self-published online that named some of his real-life victims and described similar attacks. ...

A court in Moscow on Wednesday granted a request to shut down another prominent human rights organization amid a sweeping crackdown on Russian rights groups, independent media and opposition supporter...

Daily COVID-19 infections have hit record highs in the United States, parts of Canada and swaths of Europe and Australia as the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus races out of control, keeping wor...

Sudanese authorities said Wednesday rescue workers retrieved at least 31 bodies from a collapsed gold mine in West Kordofan province.

A bird flu outbreak in northern Israel has killed at least 5,200 migratory cranes and forced farmers to slaughter hundreds of thousands of chickens.

High waters are not uncommon in Dernau, Germany, but on July 14, 2021, they reached a record height of seven metres, as torrential rains turned the Ahr River into a forceful rush of water that swept a...

Western nations, including Canada, should brace themselves for the possibility of increased cyber and ransomware attacks if current tensions between Ukraine and Russia become worse — or even explod...