An out-of-control wildfire burning northeast of the Australian west coast city of Perth has destroyed an estimated 30 homes and was threatening more Tuesday, with many locals across the region told it is too late to leave.
At least five people have died in an attack on a Mogadishu hotel by Somalia's al-Shabaab rebels that was stopped early Monday by security forces, according to the Somali police force.
The mayor of Rochester, N.Y., ordered the city's police chief to immediately suspend officers who were involved in Friday's pepper-spraying of a nine-year-old girl, the city announced on Monday.
Saved by the Bell star Dustin Diamond died Monday after a three-week fight with cancer, according to his representative. He was 44.
Whether Donald Trump bears some responsibility for the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 seems like an important thing for Americans to know — but apparently not all of them want to know, writes Keith Boag.
International travellers will have to take a COVID-19 test upon arrival in Ontario starting today in a bid to stop contagious new variants of the novel coronavirus from further infiltrating the province.
Silver broke above $30 US an ounce for the first time since 2013 on Monday as an army of retail traders stormed into the metal after betting billions of dollars on stocks last week.
Snowfall picked up Monday in the U.S. Northeast as the region braced for a whopper of a storm that could dump well over 30 centimetres of snow in many areas, create blizzard-like conditions and cause travel problems for the next few days.
Capt. Sir Tom Moore, the 100-year-old Second World War veteran who captivated the British public in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic with his fundraising efforts, has been hospitalized with COVID-19, his daughter said Sunday.
