The New Zealand government plans to ban young people from ever buying cigarettes in their lifetime in one of the world's toughest crackdowns on the tobacco industry.
A U.S. Coast Guard diver recovered a body from a submerged vehicle stuck in rushing rapids just metres from the brink of Niagara Falls on Wednesday.
California abortion clinics and their allies in the state Legislature on Wednesday revealed a plan to make the state a "sanctuary" for those seeking reproductive care, including possibly paying for travel, lodging and procedures for people from other states.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by actress Rose McGowan alleging that Harvey Weinstein engaged in racketeering to silence her and derail her career before she accused him of rape.
French authorities announced Wednesday that a man arrested at Paris-Charles De Gaulle Airport for allegedly being linked to the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was misidentified.
Gen. Bipin Rawat, chief of defence staff for India's military, was killed along with 12 others on Wednesday in a helicopter crash in southern Tamil Nadu state.
A photograph of a cube-like object captured by a Chinese rover on the far side of the moon has fanned speculation over what it could be.
Poland and several other countries in central and eastern Europe are facing the emergence of the omicron variant while already dealing with surging coronavirus cases and deaths.
The double murder conviction of a Seattle-area man found guilty in the cold-case homicide of a young B.C. couple has been overturned because of juror bias.
The U.S. just lost Afghanistan to the Taliban. Can it really deter Russia's Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine? We're about to find out whether an old superpower, using new sanction threats, can still shape events in eastern Europe.
With the year nearly over, only about a tenth of the 40,000 Afghan refugees Canada promised to bring into the country have made it here so far — and Ottawa now says it could take up to two years to resettle everyone.
A Japanese billionaire and his producer rocketed to space Wednesday as the first self-paying space tourists in more than a decade.
