Hong Kong will test its entire population of 7.5 million people for COVID-19 in March, the city's leader said Tuesday, as it grapples with its worst outbreak driven by the Omicron variant.
Five weeks after a volcanic eruption and tsunami cut communications, people in Tonga have now reconnected with the digital world for the first time following repairs to a submarine cable.
One protester drove a car toward a New Zealand police line, narrowly avoiding officers, while other protesters sprayed officers with a stinging substance, police said Tuesday, as they tightened a cordon around a convoy that has been camped outside Parliament for two weeks.
The three men convicted of murder in Ahmaud Arbery's fatal shooting were found guilty of federal hate crimes Tuesday for violating Arbery's civil rights and targeting him because he was Black.
A fossil jawbone peeking out from a limestone seashore on Scotland's Isle of Skye led scientists to discover the skeleton of a pterosaur that showed that these remarkable flying reptiles got big tens of millions of years earlier than previously known.
Hong Kong has ordered mandatory citywide COVID-19 testing, starting in mid-March, amid predictions its coronavirus outbreak will get much worse.
Queen Elizabeth cancelled scheduled online engagements on Tuesday because she is still experiencing mild cold-like symptoms after testing positive for COVID-19, Buckingham Palace said.
When the Ambassador Bridge — a key trade corridor between Windsor, Ont., and Detroit, Mich., — was gridlocked by protests earlier this month, it exposed a weak U.S.-owned link in Canada's supply chain. Experts of all stripes agree it's risky for Canada to rely so much on the 92-year-old bridge.
