Five days after the crash of a passenger jet in mountainous southern China, the disaster's cause remains a mystery while the search for the plane's second "black box" continued Friday.

Russia's invasion has displaced more than half of Ukraine's children. The United Nations children's agency says half of the country's children, or 4.3 million of an estimated 7.5 million, have now fle...

Virginia Thomas, wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent weeks of text messages imploring White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to act to overturn the 2020 presidential election, ac...

Prince William has expressed his "profound sorrow" for slavery during a visit to Jamaica, though he stopped short of offering the apology demanded by protesters who are also seeking reparations for Br...

The arrival in Warsaw of more than 300,000 refugees from Ukraine has caused an almost 20 per cent spike in the city's population of roughly 1.8 million and spurred warnings from the mayor of Poland's ...

North Korea conducted what is thought to be its largest intercontinental ballistic missile test ever on Thursday, militaries in South Korea and Japan said, marking a dramatic end to a self-imposed mor...

Did Spinosaurus, the largest-known carnivorous dinosaur, wade into rivers and lakes like a heron? Or did they swim underwater like a hippo or croc? It turns out that the answer was in their bones. ...

Russia's road to victory in Ukraine has been blocked by angry civilians, its broken-down tanks dragged off (and mocked) by farmers in tractors, its soldiers targeted by surprisingly successful Ukraini...

Madeleine Albright, a child refugee from Nazi- and then Soviet-dominated eastern Europe who rose to become the 1st female U.S. secretary of state and a mentor to many current and former American state...

Russia will seek payment in rubles for gas sold to "unfriendly" countries, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday, and European gas prices soared on concerns the move would exacerbate the region's...

Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness told Prince William and Kate on Wednesday that the British Commonwealth country intends to become a republic in an unexpected announcement that comes as other co...

The U.S. State Department said Wednesday that a U.S. Embassy official has visited with WNBA star Brittney Griner, who remains detained near Moscow, to check on her condition.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is calling on people around the world to come out in their city squares and streets and stand with Ukraine and against the Russian invasion.

In a state known for its oil booms, sustainable sources of energy such as wind and solar are experiencing a surge.

Investigators have found what they believe to be the cockpit voice recorder in the wreckage of a China Eastern flight that crashed in the country's south with 132 people on board, a Chinese aviation o...

A small team of Canadian health care workers who volunteer their time in disaster zones around the world are on the ground in Ukraine and Poland aiding some of those trying to escape the war. CBC spen...

Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine works in babies, toddlers and preschoolers, the company announced Wednesday — and if regulators agree it could mean a chance to finally start vaccinating the youngest chil...

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers decided against opening schools to girls above the sixth grade, reneging on a promise and opting to appease their hardline base at the expense of further alienating the in...

A tornado that menaced New Orleans flipped a school bus, ripped off rooftops and deposited a house with a family inside onto the middle of Prosperity Street. Two people were killed as the storm front ...