Image copyright AFP via Getty Images Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has unveiled an "ambitious plan for an unprecedented reality" amid rising Covid-19 cases.
His expansive new legislative agenda includes new investments and initiatives to help the country recover from the pandemic.
It came with a vow to support Canadians "through this crisis as long as it lasts, whatever it takes".
Opposition parties have criticised the Liberals' plan.
The Conservatives said
Image copyright Getty Images The head of US bank Wells Fargo has apologised for remarks that attributed the lack of diversity in the bank's top ranks to a shortage of qualified minority candidates.
The comments, made in a June call with employees and reiterated in a memo, had drawn widespread criticism after being reported on Tuesday.
Bank chief Charles Scharf said he had made an "insensitive comment reflecting my own unconscious bias".
"I apologise," he said.
The apology, in a message to
Adopting a child can be a challenging experience, particularly for one African-American woman, Keia whose three-year-old son Princeton is white.
Image copyright CCTV A highly anticipated drama about Covid-19 has come under fierce criticism for downplaying the role of women during China's epidemic fight.
"Heroes in Harm's Way" premiered on China's flagship TV channel, CCTV-1, on 17 September. It aired during primetime, and promised to be the first TV drama "based on real life stories" about front-line workers in
Russia's top opposition figure has left hospital but it was his colleagues who gathered the evidence.
The opposition describes the inauguration ceremony in the capital Minsk as a "thieves' meeting".
Image copyright Getty Images Hunter Biden's lucrative work at a Ukrainian energy firm while his father was vice-president was "problematic", a report by Republican senators says.
But it found no evidence that US foreign policy was influenced by it.
Hunter Biden's presence on the Burisma board led to an impeachment trial against Donald Trump earlier this year.
Mr Trump was accused of pressing
Demonstrators gather after the news that one police officer is being charged, but not over her death.
Image copyright Courtesy Surf Dayton With holidays to beachside destinations scuttled by the pandemic, adventure seekers in America's Midwest are hitting their local waterways, writes Stephen Starr.
In any year but this, landlocked Ohioans would descend in their thousands on the beaches of the Florida panhandle and the Carolinas for summer vacation. The pandemic, unsurprisingly, has changed all that.
In July, a Covid-19 outbreak in central Ohio was blamed on holidaymakers returning from Florida and Arizona, two states badly affected by the virus this summer
Kentucky's attorney general says one police officer has been charged over the raid that led to the fatal shooting.