A strong explosion at a fireworks storage area in Yerevan, Armenia, tore through a popular market on Sunday, killing at least two people, injuring 60 others and setting off a large fire.
A fire ripped through a church in a densely populated neighbourhood of the Egyptian capital of Cairo on Sunday, leaving at least 41 dead and injuring 14, the country's Coptic Church said.
A Palestinian gunman opened fire at a bus near Jerusalem's Old City early Sunday, wounding eight Israelis in an attack that came a week after violence flared up between Israel and militants in Gaza, police and medics said.
Several scientists who spoke to CBC News say the world needs to brace for more viruses spilling over into human populations in the years ahead, with Langya just the latest example.
The Adrienne Arsht Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, which studies climate resiliency, is running a pilot program to see whether a naming system for heat waves will affect the public’s perception and the way they act during a heat wave.
