Ukraine’s proposed membership in NATO should not be used as a “bargaining chip” in this week's talks between Russia and the United States over the eastern European nation's plight, says Ukraine...

North Korea on Tuesday fired what appeared to be a ballistic missile into its eastern sea, its second launch in a week, following leader Kim Jong-un's calls to expand its nuclear weapons program in de...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is advising against travel to Canada because of rising numbers of COVID-19 cases.

In a medical first, doctors transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life. Three days after the highly experimental surgery, a Maryland hospital says that the patien...

As doctors raced Monday to save survivors of New York City's deadliest fire in three decades, authorities began investigating how thick smoke could billow through a high-rise, trapping many families i...

Last year was the world's fifth hottest on record, while levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere hit new highs in 2021, European Union scientists said.

Russia and the United States gave no sign that they had narrowed their differences on Ukraine and wider European security in talks in Geneva on Monday, as Moscow repeated demands that Washington says ...

Novak Djokovic returned to the tennis court Monday for training, having won a legal battle to play in the Australian Open after his exemption from strict COVID-19 rules was questioned. But the governm...

Goldfish are capable of navigating on land, Israeli researchers have found, after training fish to drive.

Take-Two Interactive, maker of Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, is buying Zynga, maker of FarmVille and Words With Friends, in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $12.7 billion. ...

Theatre actor O Yeong-su became the first South Korean to win a Golden Globe award on Sunday for his role in the Netflix hit Squid Game, drawing cheers at home and abroad, despite criticism for the c...

Uganda's schools reopened to students on Monday, ending a major disruption sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Police in Los Angeles pulled the pilot from a crash-landed Cessna seconds before the aircraft was hit by a train on Sunday, sending debris flying in all directions.

A court in Myanmar sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four more years in prison on Monday after finding her guilty of illegally importing and possessing walkie-talkies and violating coronavir...

The United Kingdom will celebrate Queen Elizabeth's 70 years on the throne with a military parade, neighbourhood parties and a competition to create a new dessert for the Platinum Jubilee, Buckingham...

Students in Alberta and British Columbia returned to classrooms for in-person instruction on Monday after an extended holiday break.

Police in Brazil say the death toll from an accident in which a slab of cliff rock toppled onto pleasure boaters on a Brazilian lake has risen to 10.

Nineteen people, including nine children, have been killed in an apartment fire in New York City's Bronx borough, officials say.

An infant boy handed in desperation to a soldier across an airport wall in the chaos of the American evacuation of Afghanistan has been found and was reunited with his relatives in Kabul on Saturda...

Michael Lang, a co-creator and promoter of the 1969 Woodstock music festival that served as a touchstone for generations of music fans, has died.