Hundreds of Twitter employees are estimated to be leaving the beleaguered social media company following an ultimatum from new owner Elon Musk that staffers sign up for "long hours at high intensity,"...

A U.S. federal judge on Friday will decide whether disgraced Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes should serve a lengthy prison sentence for duping investors and endangering patients while...

It’s been nearly two weeks since Canada’s team of negotiators arrived in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, for COP27, the UN climate change conference. Now, as delegates enter the final stretch of negotiati...

WNBA star Brittney Griner has begun serving her nine-year sentence for drug possession at a Russian penal colony, her lawyers and agent said Thursday.

The family of imprisoned Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah said they were allowed into the prison and saw him on Thursday and that his condition has "deteriorated severely" following a dramatic hung...

Nancy Pelosi, the first and only woman to serve as U.S. House Speaker, announced Thursday that she will step down from an active leadership role in her party.

Starbucks workers at more than 100 U.S. stores are on strike Thursday in their largest labour action since a campaign to unionize the company's stores began late last year.

Civil society groups, Indigenous activists and scientists are standing together at the COP27 climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, and demanding firm action be taken next month at the UN Biodi...

A Dutch court said on Thursday that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down in 2014 by a Russian-made missile fired from a field in eastern Ukraine. The court convicted three suspects of murder fo...

Under Russian rule, daily life in Kherson city ground to a halt, with residents forced to navigate checkpoints and the threat of detention each time they went out. Days after liberation, they fill the...

Three more anti-government protesters have been sentenced to death in Iran, bringing the total to five. It's a toll human rights groups fear the regime will now expand to quell the movement. ...

For the first time in 342 years, art lovers will get to see Artemisia Gentileschi’s The Allegory of Inclination as the artist intended — with full frontal nudity.

Myanmar's military-controlled government announced Thursday it was releasing and deporting an Australian academic, a Japanese filmmaker, an ex-British diplomat and an American as part of a broad priso...

Jay Leno underwent surgery for serious burns suffered when flames erupted as he worked on a vintage car and remains hospitalized for further treatment, the physician overseeing his care said Wednesday...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of behaving inappropriately by leaking the substance of a conversation between the two leaders at the G20 summit to the media. ...

Legislation to protect same-sex and interracial marriages crossed a major U.S. Senate hurdle Wednesday, putting Congress on track to take the historic step of ensuring that such unions are enshrined i...

How could the Ukraine war trigger NATO articles 4 or 5? And what exactly do they say?