Marieval (Canada) (AFP) – More than 750 unmarked graves have been found near a former Catholic boarding school for indigenous children in western Canada. It is the second such shock discovery in less than a month.
Sydney's usually bustling harbourside restaurants are shuttered and the streets deserted as a lockdown has been extended across Australia's largest city over the Delta coronavirus variant.
Health experts in South Africa have formally identified the Delta Covid-19 variant, which has driven up infections in a third wave whose peak will surpass previous spikes, the acting health minister says in a hastily-called virtual news conference.
An end-of-year student trip to the Spanish island of Mallorca has resulted in a major COVID-19 outbreak involving eight of the country's 17 regions. More than 600 cases have been registered and thousands of young people are in quarantine across Spain.
Karim Benzema, Raphaël Varane and Ferland Mendy, currently with the team, have all lifted trophies as madridistas. Zinedine Zidane, Claude Makélélé, Lassana Diarra and Raymond Kopa played over 100 matches with the club.
The Delta variant of the coronavirus is "the most transmissible" of known variants quickly spreading in unvaccinated countries, sparking concerns of vaccine distribution and supply shortage, said the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday.
Parts of Sydney will go into lockdown late Friday as a coronavirus outbreak in Australia's largest city continued to grow. Health authorities reported an additional 22 locally transmitted cases and imposed a weeklong lockdown in four areas, saying people could leave their homes only for essential purposes.
Gareth Bale and his Wales team are prepared for their last 16 game against everyone’s second favourite team in the tournament, saying ‘we won't underestimate Denmark’.
The Danes have rallied since the horrific collapse of Christian Eriksen in their opening game and Bale is aware how important the ‘Eriksen’ factor is in their approach to the match.
“Obviously we understand the situation that happened with them and we’ve sent all our best wishes to Christian,” Bale said.
“What a great job the Denmark team did with that. But come game day it will be just us and them on the pitch, and hopefully we can put a great performance in and get the job done.
“So they won’t be underestimated by us. We’ll be ready to go come kick-off and put in a big performance.”
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 and a half years on Friday for the murder of George Floyd. The sentencing closes a chapter in a case that sparked global outrage and a reckoning on racial disparities in America, and across the world.
Though the vaccination campaign of Japan started as early as in February this year, the country still sees a low vaccination rate as the speed of the progress is limited by the space of waiting area of vaccination sites and low inoculation willingness among locals.
In Scandinavia, a unique singing technique has evolved over the ages to summon cows back home from the fields in the evening: kulning. The centuries-old tradition is also kept alive in concerts.
Dozens of people rallied against the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, in front of the White House, in Washington DC on Friday. The protesters, many of whom were members of the Hazara ethnic group, could be seen holding signs that denounced the Taliban killings of Hazara people in Afghanistan, with one sign reading 'Death to Taliban'.
