San Francisco International Airport and United Airlines have become the first in the United States to trial a low-touch, biometric-enabled airport experience from check-in to boarding for domestic travelers on select flights. (April 13)
The prime minister of Canada Tuesday said the country is still "on track" to receiving its first shipment of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine by the end of April, but he is monitoring developments in the United States "closely." (April 13)
Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, Mayor Mike Elliott says that the police officer who shot and killed Daunte Wright along with Police Chief Tim Gannon have tendered their resignation.
The U.S. is recommending a “pause” in using the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to investigate reports of potentially dangerous blood clots. (April 13)
Hong Kong's leading TV broadcaster has decided to drop this year's Academy Awards for the first time since 1968, even with two Hong Kong films nominated. CNN's Will Ripley reports.
Delays in deliveries, production bottlenecks, exports control, vaccine hesitancy and public feuds with pharmaceutical companies have muddled the first months of Europe's vaccination campaign against COVID-19.
Millions of people across the UK will be able to have their first sit-down pint at a pub in months today, with others also looking forward to visiting indoor gyms, shops, and hairdressers after the government eased lockdown restrictions.
Europe's coronavirus deaths on Monday passed the one-million mark as the World Health Organization warned that the pandemic had reached a "critical point." The death toll across Europe's 52 countries, compiled by AFP from official sources, totalled at least 1,000,288.
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has rallied leaders in Africa, saying that the continent ought to build capacity to produce its own vaccines and medical products.
The new strain of coronavirus first identified in England is more infectious but not more dangerous than the original COVID-19, two new UK-based studies have found.
Europe's Muslims will begin marking Ramadan on Tuesday evening, religious authorities from various countries said.
Visitors gather at Iceland volcano after new lava stream flows Visitors flock to see the four lava streams flowing from Iceland’s three week-old volcanic eruption near the capital Reykjavik, after three fresh fissures opened last week.
