Even as civilian politicians passed laws and Myanmar was held up as an imperfect but inspiring example of peaceful transition to democracy, its military generals never gave up power.

Some U.S. groups want the new Biden administration to drop an American dairy duel with Canada. Biden's team faces a choice about whether to pursue a trade action launched late in the Trump era. ...

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was sentenced to more than three years in prison in a Moscow court hearing on Tuesday, but not before calling the proceedings a vain attempt by the Kremlin to ...

Capt. Sir Tom Moore, the British Second World War veteran who raised millions of pounds for health service workers on the front lines of the battle against the pandemic by walking 100 laps of his gar...

Slain U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was lying in honour in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday evening, allowing his colleagues and the lawmakers he protected to pay their respects and to remembe...

To date, Canada's provinces have reported more than 135 cases of the B117 variant first reported in the U.K. and at least 13 cases of the B1351 variant first reported in South Africa.

The Canadian Securities Administrators and the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada warned that they will act if they see manipulative activity on social media on stocks such as Game...

Scores of people in Myanmar's largest city honked car horns and banged on pots and pans Tuesday in the first known public resistance to the coup led a day earlier by the country's military. ...

A U.S. billionaire who made a fortune in tech and fighter jets is buying an entire SpaceX flight and plans to take three "everyday" people with him to circle the globe this year.

The U.S. House of Representatives Democrats who will prosecute former president Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial said in a brief filed on Tuesday he pointed a mob "like a loaded cannon" at...

U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed a second spate of orders to undo his predecessor's immigration policies, demonstrating the powers of the White House and its limitations without support fro...

Two FBI agents were killed and three wounded in a shooting that erupted in Florida on Tuesday when they arrived to search an apartment in a child pornography case. The suspect is believed to have kill...

Breast cancer has overtaken lung cancer as the most common form of the disease, accounting for nearly 12 per cent of new cases each year worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. ...

More than 70 homes have been lost in a wildfire outside Australia's western city of Perth that is expected to continue burning for days.

A sprawling, lumbering winter storm walloped the U.S. Northeast on Monday, shutting down COVID-19 vaccination sites, closing schools and halting transit as snow piles up from the Appalachians to New...

The mayor of Rochester, N.Y., ordered the city's police chief to immediately suspend officers who were involved in Friday's pepper-spraying of a nine-year-old girl, the city announced on Monday. ...

Whether Donald Trump bears some responsibility for the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 seems like an important thing for Americans to know — but apparently not all of them want to ...

Silver broke above $30 US an ounce for the first time since 2013 on Monday, the latest asset to see a pop in a volatile few weeks on markets.

Myanmar military television said Monday the military was taking control of the country for one year, while reports said many of the country's senior politicians including Aung San Suu Kyi had been det...

At least five people have died in an attack on a Mogadishu hotel by Somalia's al-Shabaab rebels that was stopped early Monday by security forces, according to the Somali police force.