Younger Brazilians are increasingly being affected by COVID-19, with those in their 20s showing the greatest increase in deaths so far this year, according to a report published by government biome...

The oxygen supply for the 53 crew members of an Indonesian submarine missing in waters off Bali is believed to have run out early Saturday with no sign of the vessel while the search resumed, bolstere...

India on Friday posted the world's largest daily COVID-19 caseload for a second day, with 332,730 new cases and 2,263 deaths, as the pandemic spiralled out of control.

French authorities opened a terrorism investigation and detained three people after a police official was stabbed to death inside a police station outside Paris on Friday. Officers shot and killed the...

Around 60,000 Muslim worshippers prayed at Al-Aqsa mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem on the second Friday of Ramadan, after dozens of arrests and violent protests.

The European Commission says it expects to seal the world's biggest vaccine deal within days, buying up to 1.8 billion doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine over the next two years. ...

SpaceX launched four astronauts into orbit Friday using a recycled rocket and capsule, the third crew flight in less than a year for Elon Musk's rapidly expanding company.

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he is ending his hunger strike after getting medical attention and being warned by his doctors that continuing it would be life-threatening. ...

Canada's fight against COVID-19 saw a handful of provinces enacting targeted steps Friday to limit the spread of people and thus the virus, as Ottawa announced it had secured vaccine supplies for tens...

Afghanistan's military "will certainly collapse" without some continued American support once all U.S. troops are withdrawn, the top U.S. general for the Middle East told the U.S. Congress Thursday. ...

The 20-year-old was killed by police in Minnesota earlier this month following a traffic stop. His funeral was held not far from where George Floyd died.

Canada's past climate promises have been a flop. Could this time be different? The U.S. is hosting a climate summit in a rapidly altering world, riven by geopolitical tension, changing technology, and...

India reported a global record of more than 314,000 new infections Thursday as a grim coronavirus surge in the world's second-most populous country sends more and more sick people into a fragile healt...

Indonesian navy ships searched Thursday for a submarine that likely sank too deep to retrieve, making survival chances for the 53 people on board slim. Authorities said oxygen in the submarine would r...

Ted White, a musician from Liverpool, England, has captured sounds of nature on all seven continents. In celebration of Earth Day, he recorded music inspired by his travels and incorporated the sounds...

NASA has logged another extraterrestrial first on its latest mission to Mars: converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen, the U.S. space agency said on Wednesda...

On Tuesday, Minneapolis celebrated Derek Chauvin's guilty verdict. On Thursday, the city buried another Black man killed by police.

Saying the United States and other big economies "have to get this done," U.S. President Joe Biden opened a global climate summit Thursday aimed at getting world leaders to dig deeper on emissions cut...

Nova Scotia brings in new, tougher measures as COVID-19 cases reach highest level seen in the province in a year.

India has been overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands of new coronavirus cases daily, bringing pain, fear and agony to many lives as lockdowns have been put in place in New Delhi and other cities. ...