North Korea launched a ballistic missile into the sea on Sunday, its neighbours said, in a resumption of weapons tests that came as the United States and its allies are focused on Russia's invasion of...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is the latest target of sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine, with the United States, Canada and European allies announcing they are adding direct measures against h...

Ukrainian forces put up fierce resistance to slow the advance of the larger and more powerful Russian military closing in on the capital, as the U.S. and European Union rushed ammunition and weapons t...

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich handed over the "stewardship and care" of the Premier League club to its charitable foundation trustees on Saturday in an apparent move to fend off calls for him to comp...

Russian forces launched co-ordinated missile and artillery attacks on Ukrainian cities on Saturday including the capital, Kyiv, where gunfire erupted near government buildings in the city centre, mili...

U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, calling her a "proven consensus builder." Jackson is the first Black woman selected to ser...

Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Friday demanding that Moscow immediately stop its attack on Ukraine and withdraw all troops, a defeat the United States and its supporters knew was i...

Most Americans live in places where healthy people, including students in schools, can safely take a break from wearing masks under new U.S. guidelines released Friday.

North American oil prices fell on Friday after U.S. President Joe Biden’s government signalled it won’t sanction Russian crude oil because of the impact it could have on pump prices. ...

Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and three major distributors finalized nationwide settlements over their role in the opioid addiction crisis on Friday, an announcement that clears the way for $26 billion ...

Emissions of planet-warming methane from oil, gas and coal production are 70 per cent higher than the official figure provided by governments worldwide, the International Energy Agency has found. ...

Russia will not be allowed to participate in the final of this year's Eurovision song contest, the organizer said on Friday, after Ukraine and several other European public broadcasters called for ...

China has refused to condemn Russia over the invasion of Ukraine, but experts agree the Asian superpower occupies a pivotal role in the crisis, as both an ally to Russia and the world's leading expor...

Sweden should have adopted tougher early measures and the government assumed clearer leadership as COVID-19 hit, though the mostly voluntary no-lockdown strategy was broadly correct, a commission revi...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is staying put in Kyiv even with Russian troops just 25 kilometers from the capital. An analyst says Russia could be looking to eliminate anyone who coul...

Former Minneapolis police officers Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane were convicted Thursday of violating George Floyd's civil rights after being charged with depriving the 46-year-old Blac...

Shocked Russians turned out by the thousands Thursday to decry their country's invasion of Ukraine as emotional calls for protests grew on social media and around 1,745 people in 54 Russian cities wer...

U.S. President Joe Biden unveiled harsh new sanctions against Russia on Thursday after Moscow launched an all-out invasion of Ukraine, imposing measures to impede Russia's ability to do business in th...

At dawn on Thursday, Ukrainians' uneasy efforts at normality were shattered. Smoke rose from cities, even well away from the country's disputed eastern border.