Church bells rang out across Norway on Thursday to mark the 10th anniversary of the country's worst peacetime mass killing as leaders called for renewed efforts to fight the extremism behind the attac...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has not revised its masking guidance even as the delta variant of the coronavirus sweeps the United States, driving up infections, CDC direct...

With daily COVID-19 cases sharply rising again, Italy will soon require people to have passes reflecting their health status to access gyms, museums, movie theaters, the inside of restaurants and othe...

Hong Kong police on Thursday arrested five trade union members over children's books they described as seditious, and a court denied bail for four journalists held on charges of endangering national s...

The discoveries of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential schools for Indigenous children in Canada have prompted renewed calls for a reckoning over the traumatic legacy of similar schools ...

Demonstrations in Cap-Haïtien turned violent on Thursday as gunshots rang out while supporters of slain Haitian President Jovenel Moïse blocked roads and demanded justice.

At least 22 inmates died and several police were injured during riots at two of Ecuador's largest penitentiaries, the Andean nation said on Thursday, marking the second major deadly wave of prison vio...

China cannot accept the World Health Organization's plan for the second phase of a study into the origins of COVID-19, a senior Chinese health official said Thursday.

The head of the European Union's executive arm flatly refused Thursday to renegotiate post-Brexit trade rules with the U.K. after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged the bloc to work to find "p...

Residents of the storm-ravaged central Chinese city of Zhengzhou on Thursday were shovelling mud from their homes and hauling away wrecked cars and piles of destroyed belongings following floods that ...

Two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech or AstraZeneca-Oxford's COVID-19 vaccines are nearly as effective against the highly transmissible delta coronavirus variant as they are against the previously dominant al...

Thousands of websites and digital services around the world were unavailable on Thursday after cloud computing company Akamai said it has been experiencing a "service incident."

Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters who gathered Wednesday in Athens to oppose coronavirus vaccination requirements proposed by the Greek government.

The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee fired the director of the opening ceremony on Thursday because of a Holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998.

U.S. President Joe Biden has nominated David Cohen, a tech executive who once served as chief of staff to the mayor of Philadelphia, to be his ambassador to Canada.

A fourth Canadian victim has been identified nearly four weeks after the June collapse of a 12-storey condo tower in Surfside, Fla., that killed more than 90 people.

The English city of Liverpool was removed from UNESCO's list of world heritage sites on Wednesday because new buildings undermined the attractiveness of its Victorian docks, making it only the third s...

The Taliban appears to have "strategic momentum" in the fight for control of Afghanistan as they put increasing pressure on key cities, setting the stage for a decisive period in coming weeks as Ameri...

China's military has blasted a dam to release floodwaters threatening one of its most heavily populated provinces, as the death toll in widespread flooding rose to at least 25.

The British government said Wednesday that post-Brexit trade rules it negotiated with the European Union "cannot go on" and need a major rewrite, especially around checks on some goods moving between ...