A group of Afghan women held a rare protest in Kabul, demanding equality with men and testing Taliban tolerance as the new rulers try to form a government.
The UN weather agency says the world — and especially urban areas — experienced a brief, sharp drop in emissions of air pollutants last year amid lockdown measures and related travel restrictions put in place over the coronavirus pandemic.
U.S. President Joe Biden travels to Louisiana on Friday to get a first-hand look at the destruction wrought by Hurricane Ida, the monster storm that devastated the southern portion of the state and left 1 million people without power.
Warming of the Arctic caused by climate change has increased the number of polar vortex outbreaks, when frigid air from the far north bathes other parts of the Northern Hemisphere in killer cold, a new study finds.
Advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are expected to discuss two key questions when they meet on Sept. 17 to consider a COVID-19 vaccine booster campaign this fall: Is protection from the initial shots waning, and will boosters help?
America's employers added just 235,000 jobs in August, a surprisingly weak gain after two months of robust hiring at a time when the delta variant's spread has discouraged some people from flying, shopping and eating out.
Britain is rushing four million Pfizer-BioNTech doses to Australia, where authorities are scrambling to bolster supplies of that COVID-19 vaccine and protect the population against a rapidly spreading outbreak of the delta variant.
The U.S troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and the fall of Kabul is reminding some Toronto-area former "boat people" of American's departure from Vietnam after losing the war, which prompted thousands to flee. They hope Canada will bring in more Afghan refugees.
On Sept. 7, Canada plans to open its borders to fully vaccinated travellers from across the globe, and let them to skip the country's 14-day quarantine requirement.
New Zealand authorities said Friday they shot and killed a violent extremist after he entered a supermarket and stabbed and injured six shoppers.
