Pilgrims at Mecca this year are physically distancing — standing apart and moving in small groups of 20 to limit exposure and potential transmission of the coronavirus.
Federal agents who have clashed with protesters in Portland, Ore., will begin a "phased withdrawal" from the city, Gov. Kate Brown said Wednesday.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is looking for a spokesperson with broadcasting experience — and a thick skin — to become the government's face at televised media briefings.
The U.S. military on Wednesday unveiled plans to withdraw about 12,000 troops from Germany following a decision by President Donald Trump, but said it will keep nearly half of them in Europe to address tension with Russia.
Nearly 3 billion koalas, kangaroos and other native Australian animals were killed or displaced by bushfires in 2019 and 2020, showed a study by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), triple the organization's earlier estimates.
With reopening efforts taking place around the world, coronavirus infections continue to rise along with them — prompting the possibility of renewed lockdowns and travel restrictions. Here's what's happening with the pandemic in Canada and around the world on Wednesday.
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Google's Sundar Pichai and Apple's Tim Cook are set to answer for their companies' practices before U.S. Congress on Wednesday.
Scientists have succeeded in reviving microbes retrieved from sediment deep under the sea floor in the heart of the South Pacific that had survived in a dormant state for 101.5 million years, in research illustrating the resiliency of life on Earth.
U.S. President Donald Trump said he never questioned Russian President Vladimir Putin about U.S. intelligence reports that Russia paid the Taliban to kill American troops in Afghanistan, casting doubt on the reports in an interview.
U.S. President Donald Trump issued a stout defence Tuesday of a disproved use of a malaria drug as a treatment for the coronavirus, hours after social media companies moved to take down videos promoting its use as potentially harmful misinformation.
U.S. agents deployed to Seattle to protect federal property have left the city after local officials complained their presence was escalating tensions, Seattle's mayor said on Tuesday.
Goldman Sachs warns that the U.S. dollar's place as the world reserve currency faces threat as the American economy is weakened. Can Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell maintain his promise not to even think about thinking about hiking rates, Don PIttis asks.
A professor and leading figure in Hong Kong's political opposition has been fired from his university job following China's passage of a sweeping new national security law.
