Pandemic restrictions have closed the border between two remote communities in B.C. and Alaska, meaning children in Alaska who were supposed to attend school in B.C. are stuck at home. They and their parents are asking Public Safety Minister Bill Blair to allow them to form a cross-border bubble.
Colombia's defence minister has apologized on behalf of the police for the death of a man in custody that has sparked two nights of protests in the capital of Bogota and satellite city Soacha, leaving 13 dead and hundreds injured.
A Kitchener woman is urging officials to keep up the search for her partner, who is among 40 crew members still missing from a livestock ship that capsized near Japan last week.
A retired judge, appointed by the court to make arguments, said on Friday the U.S. Department of Justice should not be allowed to drop its criminal case against President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Bahrain has become the latest Arab country to agree to normalize ties with Israel as part of a broader diplomatic push by U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration to fully integrate the Jewish state into the Middle East.
Rio Tinto chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques will leave the Anglo-Australian mining giant by March over the destruction of Australian Indigenous sacred sites to access iron ore, the company said on Friday.
India has recorded nearly 100,000 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours after ordering retests of people whose first results were from a less reliable, widely used rapid antigen test. This take's the full tally to more than 4.56 million infected.
Spain's High Court sentenced a former army colonel from El Salvador on Friday to 133 years in prison for the murder of five Spanish Jesuit priests in 1989 during the Central American country's civil war.
NASA has launched an effort to pay companies to mine resources on the moon, announcing it would buy rocks, dirt and other lunar materials as the U.S. space agency seeks to spur private extraction of coveted off-world resources for its use.
Thousands of migrants remained stranded without shelter on the island of Lesbos for a third day on Friday, sleeping on streets or in fields near Greece's largest refugee camp after devastating fires burned the facility to the ground.
While Serena Williams raised the force of her shots and volume of her shouts, it was Azarenka who finished off a 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 victory to return to a major championship final for the first time since 2013 with her semifinal win at the U.S. Open on Thursday.
Stunned residents of the small Oregon town of Phoenix walked through a scene of devastation Thursday after one of the state's many wildfires wiped out much of their community, including a mobile home park, houses and businesses.
Attorneys for four former Minneapolis officers charged in the death of George Floyd say that each client should get his own trial, as the officers try to diminish their roles in the Black man's arrest by pointing fingers at one another.
The Indian and Chinese foreign ministers agreed their troops should disengage from a tense border standoff, maintain proper distance and ease tensions in the cold-desert Ladakh region where the two sides had their deadliest clash in decades in June.
