Ontario Premier Doug Ford has approached the governor of Michigan about the possibility of having essential workers who cross the border from Canada vaccinated against COVID-19 stateside.
As India's health-care system teeters on the verge of collapse during a brutal second wave of the novel coronavirus, a young doctor is among the medical professionals forced to decide who will live and who will die at a New Delhi hospital.
Britain's government said Wednesday it is sending two navy patrol vessels to monitor the situation on the island of Jersey amid an escalating dispute with France over fishing rights in the waters there following Britain's departure from the European Union.
Ending a marriage is always hard on the dependents — and Bill and Melinda Gates have a lot of them. Here's a look at the future of the multibillion-dollar Gates Foundation and whether the organizations that depend on its largesse should be worried.
U.S. President Joe Biden's administration is throwing its support behind efforts to waive intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines in an effort to speed the end of the pandemic.
Myanmar's security forces are arresting and forcibly disappearing thousands of people, especially boys and young men, in a sweeping bid to break the back of a three-month uprising against a military takeover.
In a further move toward returning the U.S.'s largest city to pre-pandemic normality, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says tickets to Broadway shows will go on sale Thursday for performances beginning on Sept. 14.
Teams of experts are projecting that COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the United States will fall sharply by the end of July, according to research released by the government on Wednesday.
Peloton is recalling its treadmills, including about 5,400 in Canada, due to safety issues. One model, not available in Canada, has made headlines for pulling children and pets underneath it, while the model sold in Canada has a screen that can come loose and fall to the ground.
Within days, a couple of weeks at most, the cicadas of Brood X will emerge in 15 U.S. states after 17 years underground.
A Malian woman gave birth to nine babies on Tuesday — two more than doctors had detected inside her crowded womb. She joins a small pantheon of mothers of nonuplets.
The Facebook Oversight Board has upheld the decision by the social media giant to suspend former U.S. president Donald Trump's account, though it also had criticism for the company's policies.
India accounted for nearly half the coronavirus cases reported worldwide last week, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, as the country's deaths rose by a new high of 3,780 during the last 24 hours.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and key members of his cabinet are expected to take questions Wednesday on new COVID-19 health restrictions — which include a temporary suspension of in-class learning from kindergarten to Grade 12 across the province.
