Queen Elizabeth became monarch 70 years ago today, and as the unprecedented milestone is marked this year, it is hard to gauge how the Platinum Jubilee will be observed in the shadow of the coronaviru...

A mission to train health care workers in Yemen to use portable ultrasound devices was disrupted by COVID and the ongoing war between government forces and Houthi rebels, so doctors in Canada and the ...

A five-year-old boy who was trapped for four days in a deep well in Morocco has died, the royal palace said Saturday. The rescue efforts gained global attention after Moroccans took to social media to...

France and the European Union are investigating why a massive swarm of dead fish was released by a huge trawler in the Atlantic Ocean off France after an environmental group released dramatic video an...

Jurors refused to make parole possible after 51 years in prison for the man who shot and killed four people at a Nashville Waffle House in 2018.

The Minneapolis mayor imposed a moratorium on no-knock warrants Friday, two days after a SWAT team entered an apartment and killed Amir Locke, a 22-year-old Black man who his parents said was "execute...

American podcaster Joe Rogan has issued his second apology in a week, this time for using racial slurs after a montage video surfaced showing him repeatedly saying the N-word.

Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping issued a joint statement highlighting what it called "interference in the internal affairs" of other states, as both leaders face criticism from Washingt...

The Republican Party on Friday censured two of its own over their involvement in a congressional investigation of the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill, which the party described as "ordinary citizens e...

Propelled in part by the wildly contagious Omicron variant, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit 900,000 on Friday, less than two months after eclipsing 800,000.

The U.S. military investigation into the deadly attack during the Afghanistan evacuation has concluded that a suicide bomber carrying explosives packed with ball bearings acted alone, and that the dea...

Rescuers inched closer Friday to reaching a five-year-old boy trapped for three days in a Morocco well in an operation hampered by concerns about ground stability.

A man who shot and killed four people at a Nashville Waffle House in a 2018 early morning attack has been found guilty on four counts of 1st-degree murder.

Michael Avenatti was convicted Friday of charges he cheated the porn actor Stormy Daniels out of nearly $300,000 US she was supposed to get for writing a book about an alleged tryst with former presid...

Eighteen-year-old freestyle ski star Eileen Gu of China could become the first action-sports athlete to win Olympic gold in three separate events at the Beijing Games.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s trip to Ukraine on Tuesday had little chance of being portrayed as anything other than a flight from his domestic woes — and potentially an ill-judged one. ...

Rising energy, commodity and labour costs are contributing to rising prices when it comes to Belgium's favourite snack — fries.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday praised "unprecedented" close relations with China, as he met with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing hours ahead of the Winter Olympics opening c...

Women's hockey captain Marie-Philip Poulin and men's speed skater Charles Hamelin are Canada's flag-bearers at the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games. Plus, see other highlights from t...