Taiwan has sharply criticized China after Beijing marked the founding of the People's Republic of China with the largest-ever incursion by the Chinese air force into the island's air defence zone.
FIFA's judicial bodies on Friday opened an investigation into the sexual harassment scandal involving a coach in the National Women's Soccer League as this weekend's games were called off.
Canada's ambassador to China was in an unusual setting on Friday: the White House. The visit happened without fanfare. It comes amid a broad rethink in Washington about future relations with China — a conversation that has implications for Canada.
Ozy Media is shutting down less than a week after a story in the New York Times raised questions about the media organization's claims of millions of viewers and readers, while also pointing out a potential case of securities fraud.
Mikheil Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia, was arrested after returning to the country following years abroad, the government said Friday, a move that came as the ex-leader sought to mobilize supporters ahead of national municipal elections seen as critical to the country's political makeup.
After eight years of planning and billions of dollars in spending, the Middle East's first ever World Fair opened on Friday in Dubai, with hopes the months-long extravaganza draws both visitors and global attention to this desert-turned-dreamscape.
Britain's pig farmers on Friday warned of a crisis unless the government took urgent steps to ease an acute shortage of abattoir workers and butchers that has left up to 150,000 pigs backed up on farms and facing a costly cull.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday announced the country's first coronavirus vaccination mandate for schoolchildren, requiring that all elementary through high school students get the shots once vaccination gains final approval from the U.S. government for different age groups.
One of France's biggest unsolved criminal cases appears to have been cracked — and the decades-long hunt for a suspect in at least six rapes and four killings during the 1980s and 1990s led to a former police officer.
A group of more than 20 current and former employees are accusing Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin rocket ship company of having a toxic work environment and not adhering to proper safety protocols.
Lava flowed from a newly opened crack in the Cumbre Vieja volcano on Spain's La Palma island on Friday, carving a different path from previous flows and raising fears of more destruction while fine ash forced islanders to don masks and goggles.
Merck & Co. said Friday that its experimental COVID-19 pill reduced hospitalizations and deaths by half in people recently infected with the coronavirus and that it would soon ask health officials in the U.S. and around the world to authorize its use.
North Korea said Friday it test-fired a new anti-aircraft missile, the fourth weapons launch in recent weeks, which experts say is part of a strategy to win relief from sanctions and other concessions.
Coronavirus deaths in Russia hit a record on Friday for the fourth straight day, and confirmed cases continued to surge as well.
While India provides public health care, the system is chronically underfunded — and there's a growing dependence on private hospitals, with a large proportion of Indians forced to pay bills out of pocket. At the same time, those left widowed or orphaned by the pandemic are struggling to access government assistance.
The stakes are high as plays and musicals return to the Broadway stage after the pandemic shutdown, but already there have been setbacks.
Former fashion mogul Peter Nygard's extradition hearing will be broadcast live Friday morning on media websites, including CBC.ca. The hearing is scheduled to begin at 7:45 a.m. CT and is set for one hour.
