Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and the country's current president, Jair Bolsonaro, on Wednesday both fired an early starting gun on a 2022 election set to be dominated by the raging pandemic, a weak economy and deep political polarization.
Syria is a "living nightmare" where about half the children have never lived a day without war, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday to mark the conflict's 10th anniversary.
Photos and paintings set under the frigid water, featuring creatures at risk of extinction due to climate change, are observed by visitors who must don diving gear.
An Iowa jury on Wednesday acquitted a journalist who was pepper-sprayed and arrested by police while covering a protest in a case that critics have derided as an attack on press freedom and an abuse of prosecutorial discretion.
The $1.9 trillion US stimulus bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday, the first major law passed in the Biden era, makes a big bet: that Americans want a broader safety net. It expands social programs, cuts poverty and pours rocket fuel on an already heating economy that will affect non-Americans, too.
The U.S. Senate confirmed Merrick Garland to be the next U.S. attorney general with a strong bipartisan vote Wednesday, placing the widely-respected, veteran judge who was snubbed by Republicans for a sport on the U.S. Supreme Court in the post.
If you took a walk along Windsor's Riverfront Tuesday, you might have noticed that the Detroit River was looking especially clean and clear — an indication that the water quality is likely improving, according to some experts.
A court has ruled that the man who inspired the film Hotel Rwanda was not kidnapped when he was tricked into boarding a chartered flight from Dubai to Rwanda, where he was arrested and now faces a criminal trial on terrorism charges.
Roblox Corp joined the ranks of the so-called "meme stocks" such as GameStop at the centre of social media-fuelled rallies that have gripped Wall Street when the gaming platform became a publicly traded company on Wednesday.
A highly infectious variant of COVID-19 that has spread around the world since it was first discovered in Britain late last year is between 30 per cent and 100 per cent more deadly than previous dominant variants, researchers said on Wednesday.
China and Russia said they will build a lunar research station, possibly on the moon's surface, marking the start of a new era in space co-operation between the two countries.
As global media warn Canada's housing market is "a bonfire," some are calling for a Kiwi-style plan to calm the market and prevent a damaging real estate crash.
Catastrophic flooding from a stream swollen by heavy rains prompted officials to order evacuations from a town north of Honolulu on Tuesday, just one day after fears of a dam breach resulted in the same on the island of Maui.
