Portuguese authorities said on Wednesday they had identified five cases of rare monkeypox infection and Spain's health services are testing eight potential cases after Britain put Europe on alert for ...

U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday invoked the Defence Production Act to speed production of infant formula and authorized flights to import supply from overseas, as he faces mounting political pre...

North Korea on Thursday reported 262,270 more cases of people with suspected symptoms of COVID-19 as its pandemic caseload neared two million — a week after the country acknowledged the outbreak and...

China has reinstated market access for two Canadian grain trading companies that have been prevented from exporting canola seed to China since March 2019, Ottawa says.

The world's oceans grew to their warmest and most acidic levels on record last year, the World Meteorological Organization said on Wednesday, as United Nations officials warned that war in Ukraine thr...

A friend of actor Amber Heard testified at a libel trial Wednesday in a pre-recorded video that she saw the bruises and cuts left in the aftermath of multiple alleged incidents of abuse inflicted by H...

The Mars InSight lander that first touched down on the red planet in 2018 is losing power and headed for a dusty demise, NASA says.

COVID-19 cases are increasing in the United States - and could get even worse over the coming months, U.S. federal health officials warned Wednesday, urging areas hardest hit to consider reissuing cal...

Investigators looking into the crash of a China Eastern Airlines jet are examining the actions of the crew on the flight deck, with no evidence found of a technical malfunction, two people briefed on ...

A former Minneapolis police officer pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd.

When Julie Johnson noticed a furry creature snuggled up in bed with her and her husband in the middle of the night, she didn’t think too much of it. After all, they have three dogs. But when they wo...

The Vancouver-based mining company says rescue workers, who have been working 24 hours a day to remove water from the mine, reached the refuge 570 metres below ground but found no one inside. ...

Finland and Sweden have started the process to become full-fledged members of NATO, with all the privileges and responsibilities membership entails. But the next few months will be anxious ones as bot...

A senior Defence Department intelligence official said on Tuesday the Pentagon is committed to determining the origins of what the government calls "unidentified aerial phenomena" in the first public ...

Lawyers for Johnny Depp questioned the truthfulness of his ex-wife Amber Heard's claim that Depp sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle as Heard was cross-examined Tuesday following her testimon...

The U.S. rock band Eagles of Death Metal were midway through their set when Islamist militants sprayed the Bataclan concert hall in Paris with gunfire, cutting down revellers, frontman Jesse Hughes re...

The State Department said Tuesday that it still pushing to have regular contact with WNBA star Brittney Griner of the Phoenix Mercury, who has been detained in Russia for nearly three months. ...

Queen Elizabeth, who at age 96 has reduced most of her public engagements, made a surprise visit Tuesday to a train station in central London to see a newly completed subway line named in her honour. ...