Cuba prepared to evacuate people from the island's southern region on Sunday amid fears that tropical storm Elsa could unleash heavy flooding after battering several Caribbean islands, killing at least three people. Meanwhile, Florida declared a state of emergency in 15 counties.
Cyprus asked fellow European Union nations on Saturday to help battle a huge forest fire in a mountainous region of the east Mediterranean island nation that has forced the evacuation of at least seven villages.
Environmentalists criticized Mexico's state-owned oil company Saturday after a gas leak at an underwater pipeline unleashed a subaquatic fireball that appeared to boil the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
England has reached the European Championship semifinals by beating Ukraine 4-0.
A Vatican judge on Saturday indicted 10 people, including a once-powerful cardinal, on charges including embezzlement, abuse of office, extortion and fraud in connection with the Secretariat of State's 350 million-euro ($512 million Cdn) investment in a London real estate venture.
A top Miami-Dade fire official on Saturday told family members of people missing in the rubble of a collapsed condo building in Surfside, Fla., that demolition workers planned to bring down the remainder of the building on Sunday.
Countries across Europe are scrambling to accelerate COVID-19 vaccinations and outpace the spread of the more infectious delta variant, in a race to prevent hospital wards from filling up again.
A powerful mudslide carrying a deluge of black water and debris crashed into rows of houses in a town west of Tokyo following heavy rains on Saturday, leaving at least 19 people missing, officials said.
Hurricane Elsa raced toward Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Saturday, where it threatened to unleash flooding and landslides before taking aim at Cuba and Florida.
