Australia's biggest city Sydney posted a record one-day rise in local COVID-19 cases on Thursday and warned the outbreak would get worse, as authorities sought military help to enforce a lockdown of s...

A week after the U.S. government surprised many by announcing the land border with Canada would remain closed, the exact reasons for that decision remain shrouded in secrecy.

Pedro Castillo, a leftist political novice who has promised to be a champion of his country's poor, became Peru's new president on Wednesday.

A 56-year-old man has been arrested and charged in U.S. federal court with sending emails that threatened to harm and kill top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, National Institutes of Healt...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is warning that Filipinos who refuse to get vaccinated against the coronavirus will not be allowed to leave their homes as a safeguard against the more contagious ...

Grammy nominated rapper DaBaby is coming under fire from celebrities including Elton John and Dua Lipa after making homophobic remarks about HIV/AIDS during his performance at a Florida music festival...

In a major breakthrough for one of the world's last countries to embrace COVID-19 vaccines, Tanzania's president kicked off a vaccination campaign Wednesday by publicly receiving a dose and urging oth...

U.S. states and businesses scrambled Wednesday to change course after the federal government issued new guidance calling for the return of mask wearing in virus hot spots amid a dramatic spike in COVI...

Democrats launched their investigation into the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Tuesday with a focus on the law enforcement officers who were attacked and beaten as the rioters broke...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reversed course on its recommendations around mask-wearing and now says that in areas of high COVID-19 transmission rates, even fully vaccinate...

Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk had a "heart related incident" when he collapsed on the show's New Mexico set, and his condition is stable as he recovers at a hospital, his representatives said We...

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike on Wednesday urged younger people to co-operate with measures to bring down the high number of coronavirus infections and get vaccinated, saying their activities are key to slo...

Tokyo has reported its highest number of new coronavirus infections, four days after the start of the Olympics.

An explosion at an industrial park for chemical companies in Germany killed at least one person Tuesday, with 31 others injured and four missing. Fire officials who tested the air said there did not a...

An increasing number of migrants and asylum seekers have been crossing irregularly from Belarus into Lithuania, but Lithuania says this is a “hybrid attack” and not a refugee crisis. Most are Iraq...

A Georgia man was sentenced to four counts of life without parole in Cherokee County on Tuesday, for the first four of the shooting deaths that left eight people dead at three Atlanta-area massage bus...

Moderna is in talks with U.S. regulators to expand the size of an ongoing trial testing its COVID-19 vaccines in children aged between 5 and 11, the drugmaker said on Monday.

Olympic hosts spend years preparing for the Games, along with billions of dollars and a lot of political capital en route to the finish line. But still, many cities want to host the event. ...

A trial opened in Vatican City on Tuesday for 10 defendants, including a once-powerful cardinal, in a case based on a sprawling investigation of the allegedly criminal management of the Holy See's por...

Russian authorities have restricted access to the website of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny and to dozens of sites run by his close allies, Navalny's team said Monday.