The three-person crew destined for the International Space Station on Tuesday includes a Russian actor and director who will be shooting the first feature film in space — beating a NASA-led project that aims to do the same thing with Tom Cruise.
Bubba Wallace became just the second Black driver to win at NASCAR's top Cup Series level when rain stopped Monday's playoff race at Talladega Superspeedway.
Nine of the 24 players on Cuba’s national team at baseball’s U-23 World Cup defected during the tournament in Mexico, the Cuban government confirmed Sunday.
The estate of Henrietta Lacks sued a biotechnology company on Monday, accusing it of selling cells that doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took from the Black woman in 1951 without her knowledge or consent as part of "a racially unjust medical system."
Star Trek's Captain Kirk is rocketing into space this month, boldly going where no other sci-fi actors have gone before.
A large oil spill off the Southern California coast left fish dead, birds mired in petroleum and wetlands contaminated, in what local officials called an environmental catastrophe.
More earthquakes rattled the Spanish island of La Palma on Monday, as the lava flow from an erupting volcano surged after part of the crater collapsed.
Taiwan reported the largest-ever incursion by China's air force into its air defence zone on Monday, saying the Taiwanese air force had to scramble for the fourth straight day to warn off the intruders, as tensions spiralled.
American prosecutors want former Manitoba reservist Patrik Mathews and his co-accused, Brian Lemley Jr., sentenced to 25 years in prison, saying they joined forces in working toward a civil war that would "decimate racial and ethnic minorities and subjugate women."
The CBC's Susan Ormiston reports from a new flea market in the Afghan capital, Kabul, where desperate residents are hawking household goods for money as economic collapse looms.
New Zealand on Monday abandoned its long-standing strategy of eliminating coronavirus amid a persistent delta outbreak, and will instead look to live with the virus and control its spread as its vaccination rate rises.
British military personnel have begun delivering fuel to gas stations after a shortage of truck drivers disrupted supplies for more than a week, leading to long lines at the pumps as anxious drivers scrambled to fill their tanks.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to U.S. scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discovery of receptors for temperature and touch.
Japan's Parliament on Monday elected Fumio Kishida, a former moderate turned hawk, as prime minister. He'll face an economy battered by the pandemic, security threats from China and North Korea and leadership of a political party whose popularity is sagging ahead of a fast-approaching crucial national election.
