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Police sid five people were found dead and another with serious injuries following an early morning shooting Friday in a home east of Toronto.

Construction formally begins Friday on Britain's 106 billionpound ($140 billion) highspeed railway project, aiming to forge better connections between cities for decades to come.

At 95, former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad isn't yet done with politics.

A Russian court said on Friday it had rejected a complaint filed by allies of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny accusing a top law enforcement body of inaction over what they said was his attempted murder.

Australia's prime minister pressed states on Friday to reopen their borders by December and ease restrictions, as businesses and locked down households vented their frustration over deepening revenue and job losses.

Chickens have replaced students in one Kenyan school as struggling educators make what money they can after the countrys studies were called off until January.

NEW DELHI The number of people infected with the coronavirus in India rose by another 83,000 and is near Brazils total, the second-highest in the world.

Alabama's governor announced plans Thursday to move forward with state leasing of three privately built mega prisons that would begin construction next year, in what she described as a step toward overhauling an understaffed and violenceplagued prison sys...

New York's coronavirushit Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) will have to start implementing a dramatic job and service reduction plan in November if it does not receive billions of dollars in federal aid, the agency's chairman said on Thursday.

Merck aims to start human trials on one of its COVID19 vaccine candidates "fairly soon," with a second vaccine candidate likely to begin trials later this year, Chief Executive Kenneth Frazier said on Thursday.

The holidays must go on, even with a pandemic and a heated presidential election.

Novichok, a deadly nerve agent that has left Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny in a coma and nearly killed a former Russian spy and his daughter in 2018, was the product of a highly secretive Soviet chemical weapons program. Here is a look at t...

Two prominent Thai political activists were remanded in prison on Thursday, their lawyer said, after a court ruled they had breached the terms of their bail following earlier arrests over antigovernment rallies.

U.S. President Donald Trump has urged residents of North Carolina to vote twice in the Nov. 3 election, once by mail and once in person, openly urging an act of voter fraud even as he has decried mailin ballots.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel faced pressure on Thursday to use a joint GermanRussian pipeline project as leverage in getting Russia to provide answers about the poisoning of the Kremlin's most determined critic.

Health officials in Thailand say a prison inmate has tested positive for the coronavirus in the countrys first confirmed locally transmitted case in 100 days. They say the inmate is a 37yearold man who was arrested for drug abuse who was arrested in Aug....