Brazil has entered the deadliest phase of the pandemic so far, with the daily death toll exceeding 2,000 on some days this past week. But the government is still downplaying the disaster, and President Jair Bolsonaro has told people to 'stop whining.'
European leaders address concerns about the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine by getting the shot amid a third wave of the coronavirus, much of it propelled by variants.
A volcano in southwestern Iceland on the Reykjanes Peninsula erupted on Friday, following thousands of small earthquakes in the area in recent weeks, the country's meteorological office said.
U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris offered solace to Asian Americans and denounced the scourge of racism at times hidden "in plain sight" as they visited Atlanta on Friday, just days after a white gunman killed eight people, most of them Asian-American women.
Alyssa McGrath told the New York Times that Andrew Cuomo called her beautiful in Italian, referred to her and her female colleague as "mingle mamas," asked why she wasn't wearing a wedding ring and inquired about her divorce.
Canada is about to get a big boost in vaccine doses, with a first cross-border shipment from the United States. The deal is equivalent to more than a one-third boost in total doses administered in Canada. Their arrival could come within days.
The scientist who won the race to deliver the first widely used coronavirus vaccine says people can rest assured the shots are safe, and that the technology behind it will soon be used to fight another global scourge — cancer.
In what some locals are calling the worst plague of its kind in decades, mice have been swarming parts of New South Wales, Australia. At least three people have been bitten and stores have taken to storing food in sealed containers to keep it safe.
