Hurricane Elsa raced toward Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Saturday, where it threatened to unleash flooding and landslides before taking aim at Cuba and Florida.

The city of North Miami Beach ordered the evacuation of a condominium building Friday after a review found unsafe conditions about eight kilometres from the site of last week's deadly collapse in So...

India has confirmed 400,000 deaths from COVID-19, half in the past two months, as the virulent delta variant infected hundreds of thousands daily.

The charges will do nothing to dissuade Donald Trump from running for president again if that's what he chooses to do. If that's all prosecutors have, it's a decidedly ho-hum finale to a years-long le...

The Boy Scouts of America have reached an $850-million US agreement with attorneys representing some 60,000 victims of child sex abuse in what could prove to be a pivotal moment in the organization's ...

The pilots of Transair Flight 810 reported engine trouble and were trying to return to Honolulu when they were forced to land the Boeing 737 in the water, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FA...

Air Canada is seeking the dismissal of the U.S. Department of Transportation's US$25.5-million fine over the airline's alleged failure to provide prompt refunds after cancelling flights amid the COVID...

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed legislation on Friday that will require businesses to report their greenhouse gas emissions and has been described as Russia's first step towards carbon regulat...

While daily new COVID-19 cases are now averaging in the single digits in Washington, the opioid crisis there is showing no sign of letting up, making outreach services increasingly vital. ...

Driven by the delta variant, a new wave of COVID-19 is sweeping across the African continent where new cases, hospital admissions and deaths are increasing.

In an encouraging burst of hiring, America's employers added 850,000 jobs in June, well above the average of the previous three months and a sign that companies may be having an easier time finding en...

Sailors have been stuck on shipping vessels for months after their contracts expired, and while the shipping industry blames COVID-19 protocols, the seafarers' union says more must be done to help the...

On what would have been her 60th birthday, a statue of Princess Diana was unveiled by her sons at Kensington Palace. They appeared together, sparking speculation about the state of the rift between Pr...

Nearly 20 years after invading Afghanistan to oust the Taliban and hunt down al-Qaeda, the U.S. military has vacated its biggest airfield in the country, advancing a final withdrawal that the Pentagon...

A long chapter in French colonial and post-colonial rule is drawing to a close as France looks to pull back troops fighting Islamist extremists in western Africa and other countries make their own pow...

Some 130 countries have backed a global minimum tax as part of a worldwide effort to keep multinational firms from dodging taxes by shifting their profits to countries with low rates.

Japan Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga was still uncertain whether fans can be allowed at the Tokyo Olympics because of growing concern about rising COVID-19 cases on Thursday only three weeks before the...

Chinese President Xi Jinping warned Thursday that anyone who tries to bully China "will face broken heads and bloodshed," in a defiant speech at a celebration of the centenary of the founding of the r...

Donald Trump's company and its longtime finance chief were charged Thursday in what a prosecutor called a "sweeping and audacious" tax fraud scheme that saw the Trump executive allegedly receive more ...

Two men working on construction of Enbridge's Line 3 oil pipeline have been arrested in Minnesota as part of a sex-trafficking sting.