A major snowstorm rolled into the U.S. Northeast on Wednesday at a key moment in the coronavirus pandemic: days after the start of the U.S. vaccination campaign and in the thick of a virus surge that has throngs of people seeking tests every day.
Fiji closed schools and urged people to stock up on emergency supplies on Wednesday to prepare for Cyclone Yasa, a Category 5 storm expected to bring high-speed winds and torrential rain to Fiji's two largest islands when it makes landfall on Friday.
A Chinese lunar capsule returned to Earth with the first fresh samples of rock and debris from the moon in more than 40 years.
A French court has delivered guilty verdicts to 14 accomplices in the January 2015 Paris attacks, which included a deadly shooting at the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine and a hostage taking at a Jewish supermarket. The attacks left 17 people and the three gunmen dead.
Major League Baseball has reclassified the Negro Leagues as a major league and will count the statistics and records of its 3,400 players as part of its history.
Police in Berlin raided homes and jewelry shops on Wednesday as part of their investigation into the theft of a Canadian gold coin worth millions of dollars. Police believe it may have been melted down and forged into smaller collector coins.
Germany reported a record level of coronavirus deaths as it entered a tougher lockdown Wednesday, closing shops and schools to try to bring down stubbornly high new daily infections.
A nearly "zero-emissions" building site in Oslo, using electric machinery, could be a pioneer for greener construction as the world's urban areas swell by the equivalent of a Dublin or Dallas every week, city experts say.
MacKenzie Scott, philanthropist, author and former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has announced that she has given away $4.1 billion in the past four months to hundreds of organizations as part of a giving pledge she announced last year.
