The monstrous wildfire burning in Oregon has grown to one-third the size of Rhode Island and spreads each day. But evacuations and property losses have been minimal compared with much smaller blazes in densely populated areas of California.
The iconic Olympic rings are behind a wall. The Olympic venues are behind fences. And fans have been told to stay away. Organizers said Tokyo 2020 would be an Olympics like no other, and as CBC's Devin Heroux reports from Japan, so far, that's very true.
Amazon founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos auditions his version of space tourism for a wider audience on Tuesday morning when he hops aboard a Blue Origin rocket along with three others. If it's a vanity project, it's one he's been pursuing since his youth.
A Florida man who breached the U.S. Senate chamber carrying a Trump campaign flag was sentenced Monday to eight months behind bars, the first punishment handed down for a felony charge in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and one that could help determine the severity of other sentences in hundreds of pending cases.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday that English nightclubs and other venues with large crowds will require patrons to present proof of full vaccination from the end of September.
Prince Harry is publishing an as-yet untitled memoir, which will be "the definitive account of the experiences, adventures, losses, and life lessons that have helped shape him," according to the book's Canadian publisher, Random House Canada.
The United States and its allies formally blamed China on Monday for a massive hack of Microsoft Exchange email server software and accused Beijing of working with criminal hackers in ransomware attacks and other cyber operations.
Claude Joseph, who has nominally led Haiti as acting prime minister since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, said in a Washington Post interview published on Monday that he has agreed to step down, handing power to a challenger backed by the international community.
An investigation by a global media consortium based on leaked targeting data provides further evidence that military-grade malware from Israel-based NSO Group, the world's most infamous hacker-for-hire outfit, is being used to spy on journalists, human rights activists and political dissidents.
Toyota won't be airing any Olympic-themed advertisements on Japanese television during the Tokyo Games despite being one of the IOC's top corporate sponsors.
German officials are defending their preparations for flooding in the face of the raging torrents that caught many people by surprise and left more than 190 people dead in western Europe, but they concede that they will need to learn lessons from the disaster.
Vietnam put its entire southern region in a two-week lockdown starting midnight Sunday, as confirmed COVID-19 cases exceeded 3,000 for the third day in a row.
The relaxation of England's coronavirus restrictions is stirring concern among some people who have weakened immune systems and are more clinically vulnerable to the possibility of an infection.
