Police arrested three people Wednesday in the cable car disaster that killed 14 people in northern Italy, saying workers placed a clamp on the emergency brake to deactivate it as a patchwork repair — one that prevented the brake from engaging when the lead cable snapped.
A spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry accused Taiwan of "clumsy political manipulation" and "grandstanding" after Taiwan's foreign minister gave an interview to CBC News which called on other democracies to support Taiwan publicly in the face of an increasingly hostile Beijing.
Eric Carle, the beloved children's author and illustrator whose classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar and other works gave millions of kids some of their earliest and most cherished literary memories, has died at age 91.
Ecuador confirmed on Tuesday that a giant tortoise found in 2019 in the Galapagos Islands is a member of the species Chelonoidis phantasticus that was considered extinct a century ago. Galapagos National Park is preparing an expedition to search for more of the tortoises in an attempt to save the species.
People around the world stayed up early Wednesday to witness a rare total lunar eclipse coinciding with a super "blood" moon. A "super moon" refers to a full moon that is closest to Earth in its monthly orbit.
They are traumatized after 11 days of bombardments. Their community is filled with massive piles of rubble. But, as Margaret Evans reports, many Gazans will still say the cyclical wars between Hamas and Israel are not even the hardest part about living there.
An employee opened fire and killed eight people Wednesday in a mass shooting at a California rail yard serving Silicon Valley, according to authorities who said the suspect was also dead.
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's former chief aide lashed out Wednesday at the government he once served, saying people died "in horrific circumstances" because of authorities' failed response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Amazon is paying almost $9 billion US to buy movie studio MGM with the hopes of filling its video streaming service with more stuff to watch.
Alberta is expected to outline its reopening plan later Wednesday, a day after officials in British Columbia presented a four-step plan to lift COVID-19 restrictions as vaccination rates increase and case counts and hospitalizations decline.
Belarus's authoritarian president on Wednesday defended his action to divert a European flight that triggered bruising European Union sanctions and accused the West of waging a "hybrid war" to "strangle" the ex-Soviet nation.
Polling stations opened on Wednesday across Syria in a presidential election that is set to usher Bashar al-Assad into a fourth term in office.
