COVID-19 cases in the U.K. have been climbing steadily since the appearance of the coronavirus variant originally found in India, known as delta or B.1.617.2. Communities with outbreaks have launched...

Police arrested an organizer of Hong Kong's annual candlelight vigil commemorating the deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown and warned people not to attend the banned event Friday as the city mutes its p...

China watchers are intrigued by a speech delivered this week by China's supreme leader Xi Jinping — one that appeared to extend a large and unexpected olive branch to the world. But there's littl...

U.S. President Joe Biden plans to allocate 75 per cent of unused COVID-19 vaccines through the United Nations-backed COVAX global vaccine sharing program, the White House announced Thursday. ...

F. Lee Bailey, the celebrity attorney who defended O.J. Simpson, Patricia Hearst and the alleged Boston Strangler, but whose legal career halted when he was disbarred in two states, has died, a former...

Crews on Thursday removed the concrete barriers that blocked traffic at a Minneapolis intersection where a memorial to George Floyd was assembled after his death last year, but community activists qui...

Buckingham Palace barred ethnic minorities from office jobs during the 1960s, the Guardian newspaper reported Thursday, citing documents in Britain's National Archives.

Twitter is rolling out a subscription service, starting in Canada and Australia, that offers perks like an undo button for subscribers.

Republicans and a handful of Democrats in the Michigan House passed a bill Wednesday that would ban government-required COVID-19 vaccine passports, even though they do not exist and no legislative eff...

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....

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 ...

The front lines of Canada's COVID-19 battle remain asymmetrical, with promising progress occurring in provinces alongside continuing challenges in others.

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" ...