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Google's parent company is abandoning a controversial plan to turn Toronto's waterfront into a futuristic neighborhood.

Angela Merkel doesn't give big speeches. The German Chancellor addresses her nation once a year, in a pre-recorded New Year's message. When she decided to update German citizens about the coronavirus outbreak in March, it was the first unscheduled televised address she had given in almost 15 years of leadership.

The UK economy is heading for its worst crash in more than 300 years because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new forecast from the Bank of England.

Last year, America's biggest chain restaurants went all in on breakfast. Now, with people stuck at home because of the coronavirus pandemic, it's one on the industry's worst-performing segments.

Architects are -- sometimes to their dismay -- confined by the limits of engineering. In turn, engineers are confined by the limits of physics.

Goodbye, breakfast buffets and bellhop service. Hello, temperature screening and keyless check-in.

Some of the first indications of Covid-19 in Europe seemed to hit in February. But a group of doctors in Paris have re-checked old samples and found that one patient they treated in December for pneumonia, actually had Covid-19. CNN's Melissa Bell speaks with that patient, Amirouche Hammar.

Underwater turbines could help ease Australia's dependence on fossil fuels.

This is supposed to be a busy time of year for Bollywood. School exams are over and Hollywood's summer blockbusters are typically still a couple of months away, making it the perfect time to release India's big spring flicks.

Three frontline health care workers have mysteriously fallen out of hospital windows in Russia over the past two weeks, heightening public attention to the working conditions for doctors and medical professionals amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Nearly three years after the release of a damning national report into child sexual abuse, the Australian government has published dozens of previously redacted pages of text relating to Cardinal George Pell.

Most cruise passengers have made their way back home, and the vast ships that once ferried them from port to port are moored up or back on the water, relocating for the next stage in their journeys.

China's latest large carrier rocket made its first successful flight Tuesday, an important step in the nation's plan to build a space station, according to state-run news agency Xinhua.

President Donald Trump is living up to his self-given nickname "King of Debt." On his watch, the United States has borrowed aggressively -- during the good times, and now the bad times.

For her sprawling history "Face: A Visual Odyssey," designer and author Jessica Helfand assembled a dazzling cabinet of human curiosities. From police mugshots and dating-site selfies, to politicians' headshots, Victorian death portraits and rubberised sex-dolls -- all to grapple with the way our faces have been presented and judged over the centuries -- and the lengths we've gone to, to "improve" them.

A leading epidemiologist who advised the UK government on its coronavirus response resigned from his government post on Tuesday, after the Telegraph newspaper reported he broke the lockdown rules he helped shape.

Tesla shares are up 86% so far this year, which means CEO Elon Musk just qualified for stock options worth more than $700 million.

Thanks to its complex history, London has long been associated with ghosts.

People in Ireland inspired by an act of generosity committed more than 170 years ago are paying it forward.