William Hurt, whose laconic charisma and self-assured subtlety as an actor made him one of the 1980s foremost leading men in movies such as Broadcast News, Body Heat and The Big Chill, has died. He ...

The U.S. has unleashed weapons of financial destruction against Russia. Now economists are trying to predict the long-term fallout for the U.S. dollar's role as a global reserve currency. It's a sourc...

Brent Renaud, an acclaimed filmmaker who travelled to some of the darkest and most dangerous corners of the world for documentaries, died Sunday after Russian forces opened fire on his vehicle in Ukra...

A bus carrying Ukrainian refugees overturned on a major highway in northern Italy at dawn on Sunday, killing a young mother, Italian firefighters and news reports said.

Iran has claimed responsibility for a missile barrage that struck early Sunday near a sprawling U.S. consulate complex in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, saying it was retaliation for an Israeli str...

Tens of thousands of people rallied Sunday in cities across Europe to protest against Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine.

China instituted new COVID-19 restrictions Saturday that included urging the public not to leave Beijing and closing schools in Shanghai while the leader of Hong Kong warned that its coronavirus outbr...

The U.S. State Department says it's paying more than $2 million US per month to provide 24-hour security to former secretary of state Mike Pompeo and a former top aide, both of whom face "serious and ...

Saudi Arabia executed 81 people on Saturday convicted of crimes ranging from killings to belonging to militant groups, the largest known mass execution carried out in the kingdom in its modern history...

Croatian officials criticized NATO Saturday for what they said was its slow reaction to a military drone that apparently flew from the Ukrainian war zone through the airspace of three NATO member stat...

A Texas judge on Friday blocked the state from investigating gender-affirming care for transgender youth as child abuse after a directive by the state's governor compelled officials to investigate par...

After almost eight hours sitting in a police station and court, Vera Kotova became one of the first people to be judged and fined just under $240 US under a new Russian law to punish anyone deemed to ...

Saturday marked the 17th day of Russia's ongoing invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, an action that has been widely condemned by world leaders.

Queen Elizabeth will miss next week's Commonwealth Service, Buckingham Palace has said, in what was due to have been the 95-year-old's first in-person public engagement since being advised to rest by ...

China on Friday ordered a lockdown of the nine million residents of the northeastern city of Changchun amid a new spike in COVID-19 cases in the area attributed to the highly contagious omicron varian...

India said on Friday it had accidentally fired a missile into Pakistan this week because of a "technical malfunction" during routine maintenance, giving its version of events after Pakistan summoned I...

The United Nations on Friday said it was not aware of any biological weapons program in Ukraine while Washington and its allies voiced concerns Russia was spreading the unproven claim in order to laun...

Crises have a way of revealing historical inflection points. We're at one on energy. The oil market has 'gone berserk,' according to an analyst, and we face a bumpy transition to newer energy. Here's...

U.S. officials are extending the requirement for masks to be worn on planes and public transportation for one more month — through mid-April — while taking steps that could lead to the rule being ...