The dispute over the cross-border Line 5 pipeline is entirely for Michigan to deal with, the state's attorney general argues in a legal brief released Wednesday that flatly rejects Canada's depiction ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's opponents announced on Wednesday they have reached a deal to form a new governing coalition, paving the way for the ouster of the country's longtime leader....

NASA is returning to sizzling Venus, our closest yet perhaps most overlooked neighbour, after decades of exploring other worlds.

Climbers returning from Mount Everest and other Himalayan peaks are struggling to find a return flight back home after Nepal banned most air travel to contain a surge in COVID-19 cases, mountaineering...

The largest warship in the Iranian navy caught fire and later sank Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman under unclear circumstances.

Public Health Agency of Canada says it is monitoring international reports of heart muscle inflammation but is "not seeing higher rates than would be expected in the general population." ...

Lawmakers in Alaska and Washington state are renewing calls for British Columbia to strengthen its mining regulations to protect shared waterways.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford confirmed Wednesday that students will continue to learn from home for the rest of the academic year, with hopes that all kids will go back to school in person in the fall. ...

A 41-year-old man in China's eastern province of Jiangsu has been confirmed as the first human case of infection with a rare strain of bird flu known as H10N3, Beijing's National Health Commission ...

An emotional Joe Biden marked the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre that destroyed a thriving Black community in the Oklahoma city, declaring Tuesday that he had "come to fill the silence" ...

Shares in money-losing movie theatre chain AMC continued their dizzying rise on Wednesday, doubling in value as retail traders continue to pile into the company on the theory that they've caught Wall ...

A ransomware attack against Brazilian meat-packing giant JBS has disrupted production in the U.S., Canada and Australia.

A special Sri Lankan police team has begun investigating a fire on a container ship anchored off its capital that has caused severe marine pollution, officials said Monday. Here's a look at the damage...

Pope Francis has changed Catholic Church law to explicitly criminalize the sexual abuse of adults by priests who abuse their authority and to say that laypeople who hold church office also can be sanc...

On Sunday, right-wing nationalist party leader Naftali Bennett announced a deal with centrist Yair Lapid to form a new 'unity government' to end the political upheaval in Israel. If successful, it wou...

The Biden administration is suspending oil and gas leases in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as it reviews environmental impacts of drilling in the remote region that has been the focus of a ...

Will the postponed Tokyo Olympics open despite rising opposition and the pandemic. The answer is almost certainly "yes." Senior International Olympic Committee member Richard Pound was emphatic in an ...

An ongoing NATO exercise is dusting off the alliance's Cold War-era skills and scenarios for rapidly reinforcing Europe in a crisis. An exercise in keeping Atlantic Ocean sea lanes open and getting tr...

India's Serum Institute will increase production of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine by nearly 40 per cent in June, officials said on Monday, in a step toward alleviating a shortage that has wo...

The World Health Organization revealed new names on Monday for the COVID-19 variants of concern which goes by multiple, sometimes cumbersome names.