The suicide crisis among Indian farmers is deeply felt in the poorest districts in Punjab, which is often referred to as the country’s breadbasket, because of its rich soil and rice fields. Nearly e...

A Minneapolis firefighter who saw George Floyd being pinned to the ground by police officers testified at the Derek Chauvin murder trial that she felt "totally distressed" that she was prevented from...

Canada's vaccine advisory committee on Monday recommended suspending the use of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine in Canadians under 55 because of safety concerns. Here's what's happening with ...

Canada, the United States and 12 other countries expressed concerns Tuesday that the released World Health Organization report on the origins of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 was delayed ...

G. Gordon Liddy, a brash former FBI agent who helped orchestrate the 1972 Watergate break-in, a crime that began the unravelling of Richard Nixon's presidency, died on Tuesday, the Washington Post rep...

Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, a prominent conservative in Congress and a close ally of former President Donald Trump, said Tuesday he is being investigated by the Justice Department over a former relati...

The absence of traffic in one of Rome's busiest squares during the pandemic meant there was simply no need for traffic control. Now Romans hope the return of the city's iconic traffic "conductors" is ...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said his government is considering additional restrictions to combat a surge in COVID-19 cases, and urged people not to gather over the upcoming long weekend. ...

"We've heard people from our community reaching out to us, asking us to please do something, please protect them," says Senator Michelle Au. "And instead, they decided to pass a law that loosens gun r...

It appears that SpaceX just can't stick the landing. The launch of the latest Starship, which CEO Elon Musk hopes will take humans to the moon or Mars in the near future, once again ended in another e...

The United Nations urged international donors to pledge up to $10 billion US ($12.6 billion Cdn) on Tuesday to help Syrians fleeing a decade of civil war in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying...

Experts on Tuesday boarded a colossal container ship that had been stuck for nearly a week in the Suez Canal before it was freed as questions swirled about the grounding that had shaken the global shi...

China's top legislature approved amendments to Hong Kong's constitution on Tuesday that will give Beijing more control over the makeup of the city's legislature.

U.S. officials issued what was intended to be a sobering warning Monday that the COVID-19 pandemic could get a lot worse. Their unusually emotional message carried obvious international implication...

Suspected Russian hackers gained access to email accounts belonging to the Trump administration's head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and members of the department's cybersecurity staff w...

Arkansas lawmakers passed a measure on Monday that could make the state the first in the country to prevent doctors from providing certain types of care to transgender youth, part of a wave of U.S leg...

Thousands of visitors have been drawn to a volcano on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula as it continues to spew out lava 10 days after erupting.

China would welcome a United Nations visit to Xinjiang Autonomous Region — the scene of what some nations have called a government campaign of genocide against the Uyghur minority — but Beiji...

Ship traffic through the Suez Canal has slowly resumed after salvage teams managed to move the 200,000-tonne container ship that had blocked all passage through the crucial waterway for nearly a week....