Japan has confirmed the first case of infection from the new China coronavirus, the health ministry said on Thursday. The man had been to the Chinese city of Wuhan, where there has been an outbreak of pneumonia believed to be caused by the new coronavirus strain.
Elizabeth Warren accused Bernie Sanders of calling her a liar before a national television audience during a tense, post-debate exchange in which she refused to shake his outstretched hand, according to audio released Wednesday by CNN.
As the Royal Family wrestles with the future roles of Prince Harry and Meghan, it could look to Europe for examples of how princes and princesses have tried, with varying degrees of success, to carve out careers away from the pomp and ceremony of their families' traditional duties.
The estranged father of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, could be called to testify against the royals in her lawsuit against the Mail on Sunday tabloid, court papers reveal.
Syrian government warplanes struck a market and an industrial area Wednesday in the last territory in the hands of rebel groups in the country's northwest, killing at least 15 people, opposition activists said.
Pope Francis on Wednesday named the first woman to hold a high-ranking post in the Secretariat of State, the male-dominated Vatican's diplomatic and administrative nerve centre. Francesca Di Giovanni called her appointment "unprecedented," connected more to the job than to being a woman.
Authorities say they have rescued a man who survived in a makeshift shelter in the Alaska wilderness for about three weeks after his remote cabin burned.
The decade that just ended was by far the hottest ever measured on Earth, capped off by the second warmest year on record, two U.S. agencies reported Wednesday. And scientists say they see no end to the way man-made climate change keeps shattering records.
The House is set to vote Wednesday to send the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on whether the charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress are grounds for his removal, with seven Democrats named to present the case in a landmark Senate trial.
After 18 months of economic combat, the United States and China are set to take a step toward peace Wednesday. At least for now. U.S. President Donald Trump and China's chief negotiator, Liu He, are scheduled to sign a modest trade agreement.
Authorities in Wuhan, China confirm that a married couple were among 41 people diagnosed with pneumonia believed to be caused by the new coronavirus.
The House is set to vote Wednesday to send the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate for a landmark trial on whether the charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress are grounds for his removal.
After saving their home from the "terrifying infernos" burning through parts of Australia, one family tells CBC's David Common they hope the bushfires ravaging the country serve as a wake-up call for their country — and the world.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev submitted his resignation to President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, Tass news agency reports.
Iran's top diplomat acknowledged Wednesday that Iranians "were lied to" for days following the Islamic Republic accidentally shooting down a Ukrainian jetliner, killing 176 people.
Attempts to single out a bad actor in the Middle East, or a trigger point for the chain of events that led to the destruction of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752, always come down to chicken-and-egg arguments.
An airliner with engine trouble dumped jet fuel that fell as a smelly mist on dozens of schoolchildren while the plane made an emergency return to Los Angeles International Airport, officials said.
