A member of the committee that organizes Hong Kong's annual candlelight vigil for the victims of the Tiananmen Square crackdown was arrested early Friday on the 32nd anniversary, local media reported.
F. Lee Bailey, the celebrity attorney who defended O.J. Simpson, Patricia Hearst and the alleged Boston Strangler, but whose legal career halted when he was disbarred in two states, has died, a former colleague said Thursday.
COVID-19 cases in the U.K. have been climbing steadily since the appearance of the variant, originally found in India, known as delta or B.1.617.2. Communities with outbreaks have launched mass coronavirus testing and stepped up vaccination campaigns, but experts are urging a delay in the easing of COVID-19 restrictions, expected June 21.
China watchers are intrigued by a speech delivered this week by China's supreme leader Xi Jinping — one that appeared to extend a large and unexpected olive branch to the world. But there's little consensus on how much observers should read into Xi's words and what they might mean for Canada.
Crews on Thursday removed the concrete barriers that blocked traffic at a Minneapolis intersection where a memorial to George Floyd was assembled after his death last year, but community activists quickly put up makeshift barriers and resumed chanting the name of the Black man whose killing galvanized the racial justice movement.
U.S. President Joe Biden plans to allocate 75 per cent of unused COVID-19 vaccines through the United Nations-backed COVAX global vaccine sharing program, the White House announced Thursday.
Twitter is rolling out a subscription service, starting in Canada and Australia, that offers perks like an undo button for subscribers.
Republicans and a handful of Democrats in the Michigan House passed a bill Wednesday that would ban government-required COVID-19 vaccine passports, even though they do not exist and no legislative effort is being made to utilize them.
Buckingham Palace barred ethnic minorities from office jobs during the 1960s, the Guardian newspaper reported Thursday, citing documents in Britain's National Archives.
The president of the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee ruled out a cancellation or postponement of the Olympics as doubts swirled among city governments and medical professionals whether the event can be held safely.
