North America

In the notorious Death Valley, tourists took photos next to a thermometer showing temperatures of 55 degrees.

Total solar eclipses happen quite regularly - but rarely somewhere tens of millions can flock to watch.

In the very early hours of Tuesday morning, sky-gazers will get to glimpse a rare total solar eclipse. There's just one problem.

One person died while two others received medical treatment after search and rescue teams scoured the area for anyone trapped by the storm.

Trudeau said after "many meaningful and difficult conversations" with Sophie, "we have made the decision to separate."

An Alaska man on a paddleboard escaped a close encounter with a humpback whale, not even getting wet.

As many as eight young workers were confirmed dead in Mexico after they apparently tried to quit jobs at a call centre operated by a violent drug cartel that targeted Americans in a real estate scam.

Forty-five bags containing human remains with characteristics matching seven missing call centre staff have been discovered in a ravine in Mexico.

Authorities in northern Mexican have found 45 bags containing human remains in a gorge on the outskirts of Guadalajara and are trying to determine how many bodies are there.

Mexico’s president posted a photo on his social media accounts showing what he said appeared to be a mythological woodland spirit similar to an elf.

Eight teenage girls who apparently met on social media have been charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a 59-year-old man, Canadian police said.

Welcome to our live blog for the US midterm elections.

A patch of trash almost the size of Queensland is now more than 100,000 kilograms lighter as a group funded by donations tackles the environmental nightmare.

The Australian Electoral Commission slashed the number of embassies offering in-person voting this year, from more than 100 down to just 19.

Named 'The One', the house comes with its own nightclub, putting green, hair salon and spa, bowling alley and cinema.

Protesters have eased their blockade of one of the world's most vital trade routes.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced he has tested positive for COVID-19 but is "feeling fine" and will continue to work remotely from home.

The site is proving one of the most popular dive spots in the world for good reason.

The head of a Canadian emergency department has called for a change in medical understanding after he diagnosed a patient with "climate change".

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party will win the most seats in Canada’s election, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and CTV have projected.

The family of a missing 22-year-old New York woman are begging for help to find her after she vanished during a road trip with her boyfriend.

It may not seem like a palatial mansion, but you could have a chance at owning this home in Culiacan, Mexico, for just 250 pesos (A$16).

The latest discovery of graves in British Columbia follows reports of similar findings at two other such church-run schools, one of more than 600 unmarked graves.

The remains of 215 children, some as young as three-years-old, were found with the help of ground-penetrating radar.

The remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, have been found buried on the site of what was once Canada's largest Indigenous residential school.

Allen Minish was alone and surveying land for a real estate agent in a wooded, remote part of Alaska, putting some numbers into his GPS unit when he looked up and saw a large brown bear walking about 10m away.

They went out on the boats for a diving trip, but what they experienced was much more stunning and sobering.

Two shops in a small Canadian town have begun a war of words that has engulfed the entire region in pun-based braggadocio.

A Michigan man who spent nearly five years in custody is suing a car rental company for failing to produce in a timely manner a receipt that would have proved his innocence long before he was convicted of a 2011 murder.

A man who admitted using a van to kill 10 pedestrians in Toronto was found guilty on Wednesday in a case that drew attention to an online world of sexual loneliness, rage and misogyny.

Canadian police have identified a person of interest in the killing of drug company billionaire Barry Sherman and his wife nearly three years ago.

Tijuana, Mexico, a stone's throw from San Diego, California, has been named the most violent city in the world.

Canada's worst mass shooting started as a domestic dispute between the gunman and his girlfriend, who survived the attack, police say.

Angry demonstrations broke out in Mexico City on Friday as hundreds of women protested the gruesome slaying and mutilation of a young woman.

Forensics officials in Mexico are trying to determine how many victims are accounted for in 26 plastic bags of body parts found in a ravine this week, authorities said.

A total of 42 bodies and skeletons have been pulled from a clandestine burial pit in the Mexican desert near the Gulf of California beach town of Puerto Peñasco, which is known to US tourists as Rocky Point.

Three renowned mountain climbers are presumed dead after an avalanche in a national park in Canada.

A newly sworn-in Mexican mayor has been gunned down while heading to his first official meeting. 

Mr Trump blamed the Democrats for his hardline stance on migrants entering the country, which has seen children separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border.

A receptionist at North Lincoln High School has sung a rendition of 'At Last' with amended lyrics to farewell students before summer break.

An avalanche in Canada deliberately triggered by transport officials left 12kms of road closed.

The FBI has charged a man with a brazen child kidnapping in a Chicago suburb last month.

Prince Harry and pop queen Rihanna have taken a test for HIV on World Aids Day to raise awareness about the importance and ease of regular check-ups.

Hot lava spewing from the Colima volcano in Mexico have prompted hundreds of people from nearby homes to evacuate.

Diving with a group of seals may seem like the experience of a lifetime, but on an island off the coast of Mexico last month, it seems like the young seal pups were having all the fun. 

Shelters are always looking for inventive ways to find their homeless and abandoned animals new homes – and one Canadian charity has decided to go against the flow and employ the notoriously dodgy techniques traditionally used by car salesmen.

A baby deer struggling to swim across a river has been saved by a man who jumped from his boat.

An Alaskan town has been baffled as to why eel-like vampire fish have begun falling from the sky.  

A couple from North Carolina got the shock of their lives when a rat snake snuck into their farmhouse and swallowed an entire egg from their counter.

A Victorian teenager has been reported missing in the Canadian province of British Columbia.