Elections, Olympics, assassinations, and more—test yourself on the whirlwind of international news in the past year.

Stephen Fry, 67, known for BBC comedy Blackadder and hosting quiz show QI, has been knighted in the New Year Honours. He was recognised for services to mental health awareness, the environment and to ...

It’s all very well for the Dalai Lama to pronounce that “the purpose of our lives is to be happy” but even His Holiness ...

Instead of taking another cruise or going to Paris, travel planner are booking their clients trips to Indonesia and Slovenia for next year.

They’re small, but the nuisance they cause is anything but. The ermines, or stouts, as they’re known, have been caught on camera in two residential neighbourhoods in the St. John’s area. The CBC’s ...

1. List the four Shakespeare plays that have the names of places in their main (commonly used) title. For a bonus point, name ...

"It'd be terrible. It'd not only devastate Canadian jobs, it'd devastate American jobs," Ontario Premier Doug Ford told CNBC ...

Grab a mince pie and a cuppa and see how your global getaway knowledge shapes up with our fun getaway quiz. Google ye not!

The Friedkin Group, a Houston-based company run by billionaire CEO Dan Friedkin, has completed its financial takeover of the ...

Soaring Atletico Madrid and stumbling Barcelona will meet in an eagerly-awaited top-of-the-table LaLiga clash -- with Real ...

Explore religious restrictions in 198 countries and territories in our interactive, and see how each country’s restrictions have changed since 2007. Fresh data delivered Saturday mornings Americans ...

From the wheel 5,500 years ago to the birth control pill, these 20 inventions had huge ramifications and have helped humans shape the world around ... per woman in countries where they are used.