Hundreds of migrants from Central America and the Caribbean trekked across Mexico on Wednesday, the latest in a series of caravans that have sought to reach the U.S. border in recent months.
Young women across the U.K. are boycotting nightclubs and pubs Wednesday as university towns and cities join in a national "girls night in" protest after increasing reports of drink spiking and students being drugged by needle injections.
Top U.S. military officer Gen. Mark Milley has provided the first official U.S. confirmation of a Chinese hypersonic weapons test that experts say appears to show Beijing's pursuit of an Earth-orbiting system designed to evade American missile defences.
The European Union raised the stakes Wednesday in a standoff with Poland over judicial independence and the primacy of EU law, with the bloc's top court fining Poland $1 million euros ($1.43 million Cdn) a day to prevent what it called "serious and irreparable harm" to the EU's legal order and values.
Authorities in New Mexico say they have recovered lead projectile believed to have been fired from the gun used by actor Alec Baldwin in the accidental shooting on the set of the film Rust.
Pharmaceutical company Merck agreed to allow other drugmakers to produce its COVID-19 pill, in a move aimed at helping millions of people in poorer countries get access to the potentially life-saving drug, a United Nations-backed public health organization said on Wednesday.
The United States has issued its first passport with an "X" gender designation — a milestone in the recognition of the rights of people who don't identify as male or female — and expects to be able to offer the option more broadly next year, the State Department said Wednesday.
Pope Francis has agreed to visit Canada to help ongoing efforts at reconciliation with Indigenous people following the discovery of hundreds of potential burial sites at former church-run residential schools, the Vatican said on Wednesday.
A Wisconsin judge has laid out the final ground rules on what evidence will be allowed when Kyle Rittenhouse goes on trial next week for shooting three people during a protest against police brutality in Kenosha.
The African Union has suspended Sudan's participation in all activities until the restoration of the civilian-led authority, the AU said in a communique dated Tuesday.
Russia has hit another record for daily COVID-19 deaths as authorities across the country moved to keep most people off work in line with a Kremlin order aimed at stemming the spread.
