Hurricane Delta, the 25th named Atlantic storm this year, is moving toward the Gulf of Mexico and expected to take aim at the U.S. Gulf Coast this week as a major hurricane, the National Hurricane Center said.
A restrictive Republican-backed law in South Carolina that requires voters to have a witness sign mail-in ballots has been approved by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Democrat Party in the state has challenged the law, due to concerns that it will hinder voting and force gatherings during the pandemic.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson sought on Monday to play down a failure in England's COVID-19 testing data system that delayed 15,841 test results, saying the much higher updated figures were more in line with forecasts of the outbreak's spread.
A diamond unearthed in Northern Ontario two years ago has sold for a record price in an online auction to an unnamed buyer who paid $15.7 million for the flawless, colourless gem.
The U.S. Supreme Court returns to work on Monday for the first time since liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death, opening its new term as Senate Republicans seek to quickly confirm President Donald Trump's conservative nominee to replace her.
The old truism that elections have consequences is doubly apt for the U.S., a country whose politics reach beyond its borders. It's certainly the case for Canada, and it's especially true on environmental and energy issues, where Donald Trump and Joe Biden promise vastly different approaches.
The 2020 Nobel Prizes announcements begin Monday with the naming of the winner, or winners, in the field of physiology and medicine.
