The Scripps National Spelling Bee will return this year in a mostly virtual format, with the in-person competition limited to a dozen finalists who will gather on an ESPN campus at Walt Disney World in Florida, Scripps announced Monday. Last year...
Boeing has recommended that airlines ground all 777s with the type of engine that blew apart after takeoff from Denver this weekend, and most carriers that fly those planes said they would temporarily pull them from service. The US Federal Aviation...
The United States stood Sunday at the brink of a once-unthinkable tally: 500,000 people lost to the coronavirus. A year into the pandemic, the running total of lives lost was about 498,000 — roughly the population of Kansas City, Missouri,...
LONDON (AP) — United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday was setting out a road map for lifting one of Europe’s strictest national lockdowns — but the millions of Britons eager for a haircut or an evening out still face...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzania’s president is finally acknowledging that his country has a coronavirus problem after claiming for months that the disease had been defeated by prayer. Populist President John Magufuli on Sunday urged...
PROVIDENCIALES (CMC): The main opposition Progressive National Party (PNP) secured a landslide victory when the citizens of the British overseas territory went to the polls in a general election on Friday. Led by businessman Charles Washington...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): The police have arrested a 23-year-old woman who was held at the Eugene F. Correa International Airport early Saturday with a quantity of drugs wrapped in condoms, that were inserted in her vagina. The woman also admitted to...
PORT OF SPAIN CMC): The 15 member regional group, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be meeting this week for the 32nd Intersessional meeting of Heads of Government. In a statement on Sunday, the office of Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, who is...
MIAMI (CMC): The United States Coast Guard says its Cutter Raymond Evans’ crew repatriated seven Cubans to Cuba on Friday after the coast guard cutter Richard Etheridge’s crew stopped their sea voyage due to concerns about the safety of the Cubans...
CMC: The main opposition Progressive National Party (PNP) secured a landslide victory when the citizens of the Turks and Caicos Islands went to the polls in a general election on Friday. Led by businessman Charles Washington Misick, the PNP...
ORLANDO, Florida (AP) Two women who dressed up to make themselves appear as older adults to get coronavirus vaccinations were turned away and issued trespass warnings in Orlando, officials said. Dr Raul Pino, state health officer in Orange County...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) Australia’s prime minister on Friday urged Facebook to lift its ban on news access for Australian users and return to the negotiating table with media organisations, warning that other countries would follow his government...
LONDON (AP) Leaders of the Group of Seven economic powers promised Friday to immunise the world’s neediest people against the coronavirus by giving money, and precious vaccine doses, to a U.N.-backed vaccine distribution effort. But the leaders,...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Southern cities slammed by winter storms that left millions without power for days have traded one crisis for another: Busted water pipes ruptured by record-low temperatures have created a shortage of clean drinking water, shut...
TORONTO (AP) — A lockdown and stay-at-home order is being extended in Canada’s largest city until at least March 8. Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott said Friday it was a difficult but necessary decision. Dr Eileen de Villa,...
ROME — Italian police investigating fake COVID-19 drugs and vaccines have interviewed a Veneto regional official who reported receiving offers for 27 million doses of Pfizer outside the European Union contracting system. For weeks, Veneto...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jolted by a sweeping hack that may have revealed government and corporate secrets to Russia, US officials are scrambling to reinforce the nation’s cyber defences and recognising that an agency created two years ago to...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzania’s COVID-denying president is calling for citizens for three days of prayer to defeat unnamed “respiratory diseases” amid warnings that the country is seeing a deadly resurgence in infections....
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Security forces in Somalia’s capital fired on hundreds of people protesting the delay of the country’s election on Friday as at least one explosion was reported at the international airport and armoured...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa has surpassed 100,000 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 as the continent praised for its early response to the pandemic now struggles with a dangerous resurgence and medical oxygen often runs desperately short....
NAIROBI (AP): Bodies with gunshot wounds lay in the streets for days in Ethiopia’s holiest city. At night, residents listened in horror as hyenas fed on the corpses of people they knew. But they were forbidden from burying their dead by the...
ROME (AP): The Vatican is taking Pope Francis’ pro-vaccine stance very seriously: Any Vatican employee who refuses to get a coronavirus shot without a valid medical reason risks being fired. A February 8 decree signed by the governor of the Vatican...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Immigration enforcement in the US would be more targeted under President Joe Biden than under his predecessor, with authorities directed to focus on people in the country illegally who pose a threat, according to guidelines...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has charged three North Korean computer programmers in a broad range of global hacks, including a destructive attack targeting an American movie studio, and in the attempted theft and extortion of more...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Police in northern Mexico arrested six people Wednesday for allegedly trafficking in fake coronavirus vaccines. The federal Public Safety Department said the arrests were made in the northern border state of Nuevo Le...
