A new and potentially troublesome variant of the coronavirus has been detected in India, health officials said Wednesday, though they cautioned against linking it with an ongoing surge in new infections there.
A skyscraper-sized container ship wedged across Egypt's Suez Canal and blocking all traffic in the vital waterway has been partially refloated, an encouraging sign for the dozens of ships backed up waiting for their turn to go through.
George Segal, the Oscar-nominated actor who sparred with Richard Burton in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, romanced Glenda Jackson in A Touch of Class and won laughs in the TV sitcom The Goldbergs, has died at the age of 87, his wife Sonia said on Tuesday.
Every winter, dozens of Russians and international visitors lace up their special ice cleats and embark on a remarkable 42-kilometre run across Siberia's Lake Baikal. This year was no different. Stunning drone footage offer's a bird's eye view of the runners' route across the world's deepest lake.
Hundreds of people imprisoned for protesting last month's coup were released Wednesday in the first apparent gesture by the military to try to placate the protest movement.
