Several European countries have instituted a second round of COVID-19 lockdowns after surges in cases, and experts say Canada may need to look at how places elsewhere in the world have handled outbreaks to avoid a similar fate.
In the days before Americans choose their next president, both Donald Trump and Joe Biden are in the Midwest, and COVID-19 remains the hot topic. Trump is on the defensive, while Democrats have confidence in states won by Republicans in 2016.
Walmart has reversed course, announcing it is returning ammunition and firearms to the displays in its U.S. stores.
An Illinois judge on Friday approved the extradition of a 17-year-old accused in the fatal shooting of two demonstrators in Kenosha, Wis.
More than three years after his death, a man who was shot dead and found in a burnt-out SUV near Squamish, B.C., has been identified as a U.S. citizen known for spreading racist, neo-Nazi ideologies and for a massive spam email campaign that led to a $12.8-million US lawsuit.
A strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea has shaken Turkey and Greece. Several buildings were wrecked in Turkey's western Izmir province, according to officials, but there was no immediate information on casualties.
A record surge of coronavirus cases in the United States is pushing hospitals to the brink of capacity and killing up to 1,000 people a day, the latest figures show, as most of the country focuses on Tuesday's presidential election.
The investigation into a gruesome attack by a Tunisian man who killed three people in a French church had a second suspect in custody Friday, as France heightened its security alert amid religious and geopolitical tensions around cartoons mocking the Muslim prophet.
Travis Roy, the Boston University hockey player who was paralyzed 11 seconds into his first college shift and went on to be a motivational speaker and advocate for the disabled, has died. He was 45.
