The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, whom U.S. law enforcement officials accuse of helping plot her husband's daring escape from a Mexico prison in 2015, was arrested Monday a...

U.S. President Joe Biden marked 500,000 U.S. lives lost from COVID-19 with a moment of silence and candle-lighting ceremony at the White House. The nation passed the grim milestone on Monday, just ov...

Australia's government announced on Tuesday that Facebook has agreed to lift its ban on Australians sharing news after a deal was struck on legislation that would make digital giants pay for journalis...

For the last year, stories about hard-hit American communities clobbered by COVID-19 served as a cautionary tale. But things are improving in many parts of the country, with herd immunity inching clos...

Both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca shots associated with markedly reducing the risk of hospitalization for COVID-19, preliminary findings from Scotland suggest.

Microsoft is teaming up with European publishers to push for a system to make big tech platforms pay for news, raising the stakes in the brewing battle led by Australia to get Google and Facebook to p...

Grammy-winning electronic music pioneers Daft Punk have announced that they are breaking up after 28 years.

A Norwegian museum says a small, barely visible sentence written on Edvard Munch's 1893 masterpiece The Scream was penned by the Norwegian painter himself.

With much of the world struggling through the COVID-19 pandemic, there are still some good-news stories to report. Here's a brief roundup.

Bitcoin fell sharply on Monday after the price for a single unit of the digital currency surged to a record $58,354 US a day earlier, as a selloff in global equities curbed risk appetite. ...

New York Rangers forward Artemi Panarin is taking a leave of absence from the team after a Russian tabloid printed allegations from a former coach he attacked a woman in Latvia almost a decade ago, wh...

The imprisonment of a rap artist for his music praising terrorist violence and insulting the Spanish monarchy has set off a powder keg of pent-up rage in the southern European country.

A year after the COVID-19 pandemic hit Italy, the county's new prime minister says he will use billions of euros provided by the European Union to invest in education and close the employment gender g...

Bone cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux will become the youngest American in space this fall when she rockets into orbit on SpaceX's first private flight.

Boeing has recommended that airlines ground all of its 777s with the type of engine that suffered a catastrophic failure over Denver on the weekend.

The thousands of Ontario workers who commute across the U.S. border have been some of the only ones on the international bridges for the past year and they worry that new restrictions are about to mak...

Protesters gathered in Myanmar's biggest city Monday despite the ruling junta's thinly veiled threat to use lethal force if people answered a call for a general strike opposing the military takeover t...

A number of lessons have already been gleaned about the international and scientific response to the novel coronavirus, but understanding emerging variants remains a murky area, says the expert who le...

As word spread that one royal baby was born and another is on the way, the actions of the parents and their apparent expectations around privacy provide insight into how life for those a little furthe...

The largest U.S. oil refiners released tonnes of air pollutants into the skies over Texas this past week, according to figures provided to the state, as one environmental crisis triggered another. ...