Hundreds of hot-air balloons created a colourful tapestry against a blue sky Saturday in New Mexico's largest city, kicking off a nine-day annual event that was cancelled last year due to the pandemic.
A joint European-Japanese spacecraft got its first glimpse of Mercury as it swung by the solar system's innermost planet while on a mission to deliver two probes into orbit in 2025.
More than 5,000 people protested Saturday in Romania's capital of Bucharest to reject upcoming measures used by authorities to combat an alarming surge of COVID-19 infections.
Women's rights advocates will join 660 marches planned around the United States on Saturday to protest against recent efforts to restrict abortion access, including a new Texas law that bans abortions after about six weeks.
As the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 surpassed 700,000 late Friday, an infectious disease expert said it's safe to say that at least 70,000 of the last 100,000 such deaths were in unvaccinated people.
The resolution of the extradition case against Meng Wanzhou raises questions about the legal fate of Canadian Robert Schellenberg, who many believe was sentenced to death in China as retaliation for the Huawei executive's arrest.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says he is backing out of an announced plan to run for vice-president in next year's elections and will retire from politics after his term ends.
Former U.S. president Donald Trump asked a federal judge in Florida on Friday to ask Twitter to restore his account, which the company removed in January citing a risk of incitement of violence.
