AstraZeneca and Oxford University on Wednesday acknowledged a manufacturing error that is raising questions about preliminary results of their experimental COVID-19 vaccine.
Mexico's army and federal prosecutors said Wednesday they have arrested the purported mastermind of the killings a year ago of three women and six children from a well-known Mexican-American family, the LeBarons.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday pardoned his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
A bus carrying employees of a textile company and a truck collided on a highway in Brazil's Sao Paulo state early Wednesday, killing 40 people, officials said.
Pro-democracy demonstrators in Thailand took to the streets of the capital again on Wednesday as the government escalated its legal battle against them, reviving the use of a harsh law against defaming the monarchy.
The trial of Saudi activist Loujain Alhathloul, detained in Saudi Arabia since May 2018, has been transferred from Saudi Arabia's criminal court to a court specializing in terrorism charges, according to her family.
Diego Maradona, the Argentine soccer great who was among the best players ever and who led his country to the 1986 World Cup title before later struggling with cocaine use and obesity, has died. He was 60.
British Columbia reported a record high daily COVID-19 case number on Tuesday, as neighbouring Alberta declared a public health emergency and issued a temporary ban on all indoor social gatherings.
Daily U.S. deaths from COVID-19 surpassed 2,000 for the first since May and hospitals across the country are already full, portending a surge in mortalities to come as the coronavirus pandemic casts a shadow over the holiday season.
The Canadian company accused the state of overstepping its bounds, arguing that Enbridge's Line 5 was under the sole regulatory jurisdiction of the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
The Duchess of Sussex has revealed that she had a miscarriage in July, giving a personal account of the traumatic experience in hope of helping others.
The Hong Kong government's priority is to "restore the political system from chaos," Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Wednesday in her annual policy address, which did not deliver blockbuster steps to boost the economy or ease a housing crisis.
Bye-bye, 'America First'. We now have a good sense of what Joe Biden's administration will look like, what its early moves will be and its attitude toward international affairs. And it's a dramatic shift from the Trump era.
When COVID-19 cases surged in July, restrictions were draconian and immediate in some regions.
