A journalist for Al Jazeera was shot and killed while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin early Wednesday. The broadcaster blamed Israeli forces, who said they were invest...

The race to reach eight workers trapped in a flooded, Canadian-owned zinc mine in West Africa is making progress. 

A U.S. senator derided Canada as a freeloader on defence during a high-profile congressional hearing and he suggested he's getting fed up with it. As American politicians prepare to send billions mo...

Investigators will examine whether prison official Vicky White's fatal gunshot wound was self-inflicted, as prisoner Casey White claimed, after the pair were finally tracked down after 11 days on the ...

Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have charged the leader of a notoriously violent Haitian gang with conspiracy to commit hostage taking for his alleged role in the kidnapping of 16 Americans last year....

The head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday China's zero-tolerance COVID-19 policy is not sustainable given what is known of the disease, in rare public comments by the United Nations ag...

Authorities will not file criminal charges against former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson after he was recorded on video punching a fellow first-class passenger aboard a plane at San Francisco Internatio...

The James Webb Space Telescope beamed back the latest test pictures of a neighbouring satellite galaxy, and the results are stunning when compared with images taken by NASA's previous infrared observa...

Elon Musk said he will reverse Twitter's permanent ban of former U.S. president Donald Trump if the Tesla CEO follows through with his plan to buy the social media company. To date, Trump has maintain...

The world faces a 50 per cent chance of warming 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels, if only briefly, by 2026, the World Meteorological Organization says.

With the Queen forced to withdraw on Monday due to a recurrence of mobility issues, Prince Charles arrived at the Palace of Westminster on Tuesday to read out the government's legislative agenda. ...

Yoon Suk Yeol, a conservative political neophyte, took office as South Korea's new president Tuesday with a vow to pursue a negotiated settlement of North Korea's threatening nuclear program and an of...

The namesake son of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos appeared to have been elected Philippine president by a landslide in an astonishing reversal of the 1986 "People Power" pro-democracy revo...

An Alabama jail official who was accused of helping a murder suspect escape from custody died Monday after the pair was apprehended in Indiana, more than a week after they disappeared, law enforceme...

More bodies were pulled from the ruins of a luxury hotel in Cuba's capital on Monday, bringing the official death toll of a powerful explosion at the iconic building to 40.

Queen Elizabeth will not attend the opening of Britain's Parliament on Tuesday for the first time in nearly 60 years, as she struggles with difficulties in getting around.

Students graduating from a historically Black college in East Texas were told at their commencement ceremony that an anonymous donor had paid their balances, officials said.

COVID-19 vaccine makers are shifting gears and planning for a smaller, more competitive booster shot market after delivering doses as fast as they could over the last 18 months.

An official says Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has resigned following weeks of protests demanding that he and his brother, the president, step down over the country's worst economic cris...