Canada's national insurance bureau says insured damage caused by raging wildfires that burned for nearly two months in the country's oil sands region has totaled $2.76 billion (CA$3.58 billion).
Conservative lawmakers chose Home Secretary Theresa May and Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom on Thursday to fight a runoff contest for leadership of Britain's governing party, and the winner will become the country's second female prime minister.
A Vatican court declared Thursday it had no jurisdiction to prosecute or convict two journalists for having published confidential information, ending an eight-month trial that drew scorn from media rights groups around the world.
Serbia's government on Thursday accused Hungary of enacting harsher border control policies and breaching international law by returning migrants across their shared frontier.
The African Union says it plans to withdraw its forces from Somalia by the end of 2020 after years of trying to secure the Horn of Africa country against extremist group al-Shabab.
Fox News independently confirmed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office Thursday that there was no credence to news media reports of an assassination attempt against him while visiting Africa this week.
Pope Francis has named Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich to be a member of the powerful Vatican office that vets bishops' nominations, signaling he wants a key pastoral voice involved in the selection of U.S. church leaders.
Two people were charged Tuesday in connection with a video that surfaced a year ago showing a man jumping on the back of a swimming moose in a Canadian lake.
With the ink barely dry on the deal between the U.S. and Iran to prevent the Islamic Republic from securing nuclear weapons, a new German intelligence document charges that Iran continues to flout the agreement.
German exports to Britain are forecast to fall both this year and in 2017 due to the country's vote to leave the European Union, a business group said Thursday.
The death toll in the suicide bombing at a shopping complex last weekend in Baghdad rose again Thursday, although Iraqi officials gave different numbers.
The Philippine president in televised remarks has warned a Chinese drug suspect that he may die at the Manila airport if he returns from abroad, underscoring the brazen rhetoric and methods he intends to use to fight the drug trade.
German authorities have arrested a Pakistani man accused of spying for Iran on the former head of a group that promotes German-Israeli relations, among others.
European Union lawmakers are condemning Bahrain's crackdown on human rights defenders and political opponents and calling for the release of jailed campaigners.
Iraqi hospital and police officials say the death toll from Baghdad's horrific bombing five days ago is still rising as more human remains are recovered from the blast site.
A Canadian former boxer who was walking his dog Sunday was confronted by a 300-pound black bear protecting her cub -- and in a daring move, he said he punched the bear in the snout when it got aggressive.