On the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, the republic is under stress. Its air of invulnerability is shattered. Over the coming months, several events will allow a ...

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes was convicted on four counts of fraud and conspiracy Monday, ending a lengthy trial that has captivated Silicon Valley.

A Hong Kong court sentenced a 36-year-old barrister to 15 months in prison on Tuesday for inciting an unauthorized assembly to commemorate those who died in China's 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy ...

Gunmen unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry during an event on Saturday commemorating the Caribbean country's independence, his office said in a statement. ...

Pandemics do eventually end, even if Omicron is complicating the question of when this one will. But it won't be like flipping a light switch: the world will have to learn to coexist with a virus that...

Warner Music Group's publishing unit has bought late British rock star David Bowie's entire catalogue of music spanning six decades and including hits such as Space Oddity, Ziggy Stardust, Heroes a...

New York's attorney general has issued subpoenas to former U.S. president Donald Trump and his two eldest children in connection with an ongoing civil investigation into the family's business practice...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized the use of a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children aged between 12 and 15 years, and narrowed the time for all booster s...

A 2009 settlement agreement between convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Virginia Giuffre, who accused him of sexual abuse, was made public on Monday as part of Giuffre's civil lawsuit against B...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized on Monday with an intestinal blockage and may need to undergo surgery in the latest complication from a 2018 stabbing.

Provinces are putting new measures in place to deal with an Omicron-fuelled rise in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations across Canada.

South African police said on Monday they had charged a man with arson over a fire that caused extensive damage to the national Parliament building in Cape Town, as firefighters struggled to extinguish...

A Hong Kong online news site said Sunday that it will cease operations in light of deteriorating press freedoms, days after police raided and arrested seven people for sedition at a separate pro-democ...

U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin says he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms while quarantining at home.

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said on Sunday he was resigning, six weeks after returning to his post in a deal with military coup leaders he argued could save a transition toward democracy. ...

Twitter on Sunday banned the personal account of U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for multiple violations of its COVID-19 misinformation policy, according to a statement from the company. ...

A major fire ripped through South Africa's 138-year-old Parliament complex on Sunday, gutting offices and causing some ceilings to collapse at a site that has hosted some of the country's pivotal mome...

Thousands of people in the Netherlands defied a ban on assembling and demonstrated Sunday against the Dutch government's coronavirus lockdown measures, gathering in a central square before marching to...

Search teams looked for two missing people on Sunday in the snow-covered but still smouldering debris from a massive Colorado wildfire, while people who barely escaped the flames sorted through what w...

A funeral service was held in Cape Town, South Africa, on Saturday for Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning equality activist who was revered in Africa for his role in endin...