Buckingham Palace has for the first time released figures on the ethnic makeup of its staff, following the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's allegations of racism in the royal family.
Warren Buffett is resigning as a trustee from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The announcement comes weeks after the couple announced they were divorcing after 27 years of marriage but would continue to jointly run the foundation, one of the largest charitable foundations in the world.
Ohio, the state that launched the national movement to offer millions of dollars in incentives to boost vaccination rates, planned to conclude its prize program Wednesday — still unable to crack the 50 per cent vaccination threshold.
John McAfee, the creator of the McAfee antivirus software, has been found dead in his cell in a jail near Barcelona, a government official told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Hong Kong's pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper will stop publishing Thursday, following last week's arrest of five editors and executives and the freezing of $2.3 million US in assets under the city's year-old national security law.
Groups representing pilots, airline staff say they've seen a "substantial increase" and a "growing escalation" in unruly and disruptive behaviour from airline passengers, particularly toward crew members.
Japan's Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that laws requiring married couples to have the same surname are constitutional, dismissing a challenge by three couples seeking to keep their original names.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now says reports of people suffering heart inflammation after being vaccinated with an mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine are greater than expected and likely linked to the vaccine, but that the benefits of vaccination still outweigh any risks.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled in favour of a Pennsylvania teenager who sued after a profane social media post got her banished from her high school's cheerleading squad in a narrow decision in a closely watched free speech case.
Russia said on Tuesday it had fired warning shots and dropped bombs in the path of a British destroyer sailing in the Black Sea off the coast of the Crimea peninsula, which Russia seized and annexed from Ukraine.
More Ontarians living in designated hot spots for the delta COVID-19 variant are eligible to book earlier second vaccine doses starting today.
