Australia eased its international border restrictions on Monday for the first time in the pandemic, allowing some of its vaccinated public to travel freely and many families to reunite, sparking emotional embraces at Sydney's airport.

A man dressed in Batman's Joker costume and brandishing a knife on a Tokyo commuter train on Sunday stabbed several passengers before starting a fire, which sent people scrambling to escape and jumping from windows, police and witnesses said.

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Heather Stefanson was expected to easily win Manitoba's Progressive Conservative leadership race. But the party membership handed her a razor-thin victory that may yet be contested further by her rival, Shelly Glover.

Ryerson University announced last week that it would offer a Black studies minor to students as of Fall 2022, and similar programs are in the works at other universities. Scholars say that decades of work have led to this wave of curriculums focused on the Black experience.