The new year brought a new honour for Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, with Queen Elizabeth appointing her daughter-in-law a Royal Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.

A senior official says the United States is open to discussions with Russia on curtailing possible future deployments of offensive missiles in Ukraine and putting limits on U.S. and NATO military exer...

At least 22 people, including 10 children, died in a popular mountain resort town in Pakistan after being stuck in their vehicles overnight during a heavy snowstorm as temperatures plummeted, official...

The former head of Kazakhstan's counter-intelligence and anti-terror agency has been arrested on charges of attempted government overthrow in the wake of violent protests that the president has blamed...

The president of Turkmenistan is calling for an end to one of the country's most notable but infernal sights — the blazing natural gas crater widely referred to as the "Gates of Hell." ...

Three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery were sentenced Friday to life in prison, with a judge denying any chance of parole for the father and son who armed themselves and initiated the dea...

Novak Djokovic's lawyers filed court papers Saturday in his challenge against deportation from Australia that show the tennis star tested positive for COVID-19 last month and recovered, grounds he use...

The speed of the upheaval this week in the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan has surprised many observers, including a Canadian university professor who teaches in the country's capital. ...

Sidney Poitier, the groundbreaking actor and enduring inspiration who transformed how Black people were portrayed on screen, became the first Black actor to win an Academy Award for best lead performa...

One of the first studies to track whether COVID-19 vaccination might affect menstrual cycles found a small and temporary change.

Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Friday questioned the legality of President Joe Biden's pandemic-related vaccine-or-testing mandate for large businesses but appeared more receptive to his ...

The Golden Globes will be a private event this year with no live-stream, organizers said, as they prepare to hold a pared-down ceremony on Sunday with no celebrity red carpet following controversy las...

Regardless of who made an error on the visa or the vaccination waiver, the reality Friday for top-seeded tennis player Novak Djokovic was spending one of his important religious holidays — Orthodox ...

At least two Canadian provinces have more people hospitalized with COVID-19 than at any previous point in the pandemic, amid an Omicron-powered wave of infection across the country.

Kazakhstan's president authorized security forces on Friday to shoot to kill those participating in unrest, opening the door for a dramatic escalation in a crackdown on anti-government protests that h...

U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday accused his predecessor, Donald Trump, of spreading a "web of lies" to undermine U.S. democracy in a speech on the anniversary of the deadly U.S. Capitol attack by...

Two journalists in Haiti were killed Thursday on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince after suspected gang members opened fire on a group of reporters who had arrived to interview the leader of a rival ga...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has apologized after a government ethics investigator criticized the U.K. leader and his staff for failing to disclose messages he exchanged with a donor about fin...

Fresh violent protests erupted in Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city, on Thursday after Russia sent in paratroopers to put down a countrywide uprising in one of Moscow's closest former Soviet allies...