U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently said he takes full responsibility for the government's response to COVID-19. That includes a formidable vaccination effort, but also failing to establish a "...

The controversy hanging over Julie Payette's departure from Rideau Hall offers a long list of lessons about how to go about — or not go about — finding someone to represent the Crown in Canada. ...

India has ended an 18-month-long ban on high-speed internet service on mobile devices in disputed Kashmir, where opposition to New Delhi has deepened after it revoked the region's semi-autonomy. ...

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Myanmar's cities on Saturday to denounce this week's coup and demand the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi despite a blockade on the interne...

The U.K. has one of the highest COVID-19 vaccination rates in the world. But on the ground, getting the shots into people's arms isn't always an easy task. We look at why vaccine hesitancy is a concer...

Former heavyweight champion Leon Spinks Jr. has died after battling prostate and other cancers. He was 67.

Already suffering because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jamaica's vital tourism industry was dealt another blow when Canada announced it was cancelling all direct flights to the region. Jamaican Minister ...

A surreal, blood-red river inundated the Indonesian village of Jenggot after floods hit a nearby batik factory on Saturday, causing a frenzy on social media.

Russia said Friday it was expelling diplomats from Sweden, Poland and Germany, accusing them of attending a rally in support of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, as international tensions grew over th...

A metastudy to be published in the journal Science shows that humans have drastically altered oceans' underwater soundscapes, in some cases deafening or disorienting whales, dolphins and other marin...

Hong Kong has unveiled controversial guidelines for schools in the Chinese-ruled city that include teaching students as young as six about colluding with foreign forces and subversion as part of a new...

As murmurs of cancellation and restrictions at the Tokyo Olympics grow louder, life in the city of 14 million appears strangely normal, a contradiction that only further muddies the picture of what th...

The new Biden administration sees Huawei as a national-security threat and wants to discuss the issue with allies. Answers from the nominee for commerce secretary make clear the pressure on Canada to ...

The U.S. Senate, in the throes of a marathon debate over the shape of President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion US coronavirus aid plan, voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to exclude upper-income Americans f...

Republican U.S. House Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene was stripped of her House committee positions Thursday over her racist and conspiracy-laden theories in a vote that mostly played out along...

British scientists are starting a study Thursday to find out if it's OK to mix and match COVID-19 vaccines. Participants in the government-funded study will get one shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine fol...

Donald Trump's lawyers say the former president will reject a request by U.S. House Democrats on Thursday to testify under oath for his Senate impeachment trial.

After more than 2,700 tonnes of ammonium nitrate blew up in Beirut’s port, we’re no closer to learning what caused the blast and who is responsible, says Aya Majzoub of Human Rights Watch. ...

President Joe Biden's cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline has become an early talking point against him from domestic critics of his administration — and even some allies.

Tokyo Olympics chief Yoshiro Mori on Thursday apologized for making sexist remarks about women, saying he retracted the comments and would not resign, despite calls for him to step down on social me...