More than 80 fire and rescue units were on the scene of a partial building collapse in Miami, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department said in a tweet early Thursday.

Buckingham Palace has for the first time released figures on the ethnic makeup of its staff, following the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's allegations of racism in the royal family.

John McAfee, the creator of McAfee antivirus software, was found dead in his jail cell near Barcelona in an apparent suicide Wednesday, hours after a Spanish court approved his extradition to the Unit...

Hong Kong's sole remaining pro-democracy newspaper published its last edition Thursday after five editors and executives were arrested and millions of dollars in its assets were frozen as part of Chin...

Ohio, the state that launched the national movement to offer millions of dollars in incentives to boost vaccination rates, planned to conclude its prize program Wednesday — still unable to crack the...

A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advisory group now says reports of heart inflammation in people given an mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine are likely linked to the vaccine, but tha...

Japan's Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that laws requiring married couples to have the same surname are constitutional, dismissing a challenge by three couples seeking to keep their original names. ...

Warren Buffett is resigning as a trustee from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The announcement comes weeks after the couple announced they were divorcing after 27 years of marriage but would co...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled in favour of a Pennsylvania teenager who sued after a profane social media post got her banished from her high school's cheerleading squad in a decision in a ...

Groups representing pilots, airline staff say they've seen a "substantial increase" and a "growing escalation" in unruly and disruptive behaviour from airline passengers, particularly toward crew memb...

More Ontarians living in designated hot spots for the delta COVID-19 variant are eligible to book earlier second vaccine doses starting today.

Russia said one of its warships in the Black Sea fired warning shots and a warplane dropped bombs Wednesday to force a British destroyer out of an area near Crimea that Moscow claims as its territoria...

The United States government has announced it will investigate its history of Indian boarding schools and work to identify children who died in the institutions.

In 1946, U.S. diplomat George F. Kennan authored a secret document about Russia that would cool international relations and help launch the Cold War. Seventy five years later, Kennan's Long Telegram s...

At the UN in Geneva on Tuesday, China and its allies called for a UN investigation into crimes against Indigenous people in Canada — just moments before Canada and its allies called on China to allo...

How do astronauts do laundry in space? They don't. Instead, astronauts throw away tons of dirty clothes every year. NASA wants to change that, so they're teaming up with Proctor & Gamble Co. to figure...

The Great Barrier Reef should be added to a list of World Heritage Sites that are "in danger," a United Nations panel said on Tuesday, drawing an angry response from Australia, which called the recomm...

The U.S. government is stepping up efforts to get younger Americans vaccinated for COVID-19 as concerns grow about the spread of a new variant that threatens to set the country back in the months ahea...

The Eyeharp converts eye movements on a computer screen to notes plucked on an electronic instrument.

Turkey is developing a domestic vaccine named "Turkovac" by President Tayyip Erdogan. The vaccine entered into phase three clinical trials on Tuesday and should be available for use by the end of the ...