As the Earth continues to heat up due to man-made climate change, 'hottest temperature on record' has become an increasingly common refrain as dozens of countries have hit their high-temperature marks...

A heat wave broiling Europe fuelled ferocious wildfires on Monday in Spain and France, which evacuated thousands of people and scrambled water-bombing planes and firefighters to battle flames in ti...

Millions of people in Britain stayed home or sought shade Monday during the country's first-ever "red" warning for extreme heat, as the hot, dry weather that has scorched mainland Europe for the past ...

A Russian shell smashed into a two-story building in the eastern Ukrainian town of Toretsk on Monday, killing six civilians who were sheltering there, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said. ...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the most recognizable face in U.S. efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, has told Politico in a newly published interview that he plans to retire at the end of Joe Biden's first ...

A feminism group from a U.K. high school is petitioning the government to ban school uniforms from being sold in costume and sex shops and worn in pornography.

Three people were fatally shot and two were injured Sunday evening at an Indiana mall after a man with a rifle opened fire in a food court and an armed civilian shot and killed him, police said. ...

Sri Lanka's acting president Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Monday that the country had almost concluded negotiations with the International Monetary Fund on a bailout package, a day after he declared ...

One of The Chainsmokers' latest hits is High and they're hoping to live up to their lyrics. The hit-making duo of Drew Taggart and Alex Pall have signed up to get into a pressurized capsule tethered ...

Acting police chief placed on administrative leave as new report says nearly 400 law enforcement officials who rushed to the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, didn't enter the classroom for an ...

In the U.S. as in Canada, inflation has been most noticeable at the gas pump. But the jump in the cost of staples such as milk, eggs and flour is also hitting consumers and small businesses hard. In o...

Pope Francis said on Sunday his trip to Canada next week will be a "pilgrimage of penance" that he hopes can help heal the wrongs done to Indigenous people by Roman Catholic priests and nuns who ran a...

With COVID-19 restrictions largely lifted across the Caribbean, the summer Carnival season — with all of its costumes, music and dancing — has returned.

Experts investigating the site of a cargo plane crash in northern Greece said Sunday they have found no evidence of dangerous substances but say there is still a lot of widespread ordnance, while Serb...

Wildfires raged in southwestern France and Spain on Saturday, forcing thousands of people from their homes as blistering summer temperatures put authorities on alert in parts of Europe. ...

The Trudeau government is being pilloried in some quarters for waiving sanctions on turbines required for Germany's key natural gas pipeline. But how badly did Germany need those turbines? Will they s...

Russian forces fired missiles and shells at cities and towns across Ukraine on Saturday after Russia's military announced it was stepping up its onslaught against its neighbour. Ukrainian officials re...

Abortion restrictions in a number of U.S. states and the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade are having profound repercussions in reproductive medicine as well as in other areas of medica...