As American lawmakers inch toward approving a bill with an eye-watering 13-digit price tag, it's apparently a bridge to Canada that's a bridge too far. Funds to upkeep an existing cross-border bridge ...

A shipment of over a quarter million AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccines destined for Australia has been blocked from leaving the European Union.

New Zealand downgraded its tsunami threat level hours after several strong earthquakes, after the National Emergency Management Agency said that the largest waves had passed.

The acting chief of the U.S. Capitol Police appealed to congressional leaders Thursday to use their influence to keep National Guard troops at the Capitol, two months after the law enforcement breakdo...

Most African countries will kick-start their COVID-19 vaccination programs by the end of March as efforts to procure doses for the continent's 1.3 billion people gather pace, the World Health Organiza...

Prince Philip has had a successful heart procedure at a London hospital, Buckingham Palace said Thursday.

Alphabet Inc.'s YouTube will lift its suspension on former U.S. president Donald Trump's channel when it determines the risk of real-world violence has decreased, the company's CEO, Susan Wojcicki, sa...

Prince Harry's wife, Meghan, has accused Buckingham Palace of "perpetuating falsehoods" about her and her spouse, saying the royal couple would not be silent in telling their story.

The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to begin debating President Joe Biden's $1.9-trillion US coronavirus aid bill, setting up what is likely to be a contentious, days-long debate over the merits of th...

At least seven Afghan civilians were shot and killed by a group of gunmen overnight in the country's east and a physician died when a bomb attached to her rickshaw exploded on Thursday, provincial off...

A new UN report estimates 17 per cent of the food produced globally each year is wasted. That represents a big environmental toll. Canadians are more wasteful than Americans, the report found. ...

British police said Thursday that they will not launch a criminal investigation into the journalist Martin Bashir over his 1995 interview with Princess Diana.

Big-hearted Canadian runner Gabriela DeBues-Stafford has donated $750 US in prize money from Saturday’s win at the Texas Qualifier to Austin Mutual Aid in hopes of providing relief and housing to th...

Financial technology company Square, Inc. says it has reached an agreement to acquire a "significant majority ownership" of Tidal, the music streaming service partly owned by Jay-Z.

The White House warned that the U.S. may consider a military response to a rocket attack that hit an airbase in western Iraq where American and coalition troops are housed.

The U.S. Capitol Police department has obtained intelligence pointing to a possible plot to "breach the Capitol by an identified militia group" on Thursday, the agency said Wednesday in a statement th...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he's "embarrassed" by sexual harassment allegations against him and acknowledges he "acted in a way that made people feel uncomfortable," but says he intends to stay in...

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is searching for eight people to join him on the first private SpaceX trip around the moon, planned for 2023.

Myanmar security forces dramatically escalated their crackdown on protests against last month's coup, killing at least 34 protesters Wednesday in several cities, according to accounts on social media ...

The new president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee stopped short of saying there would be no foreign fans at this year's games, but she certainly hinted at it Wednesday after online talks wit...