Demolition specialists bored holes for explosive charges Sunday as they prepared to bring down the precarious but still-standing portion of a collapsed South Florida condo building.

Effective Monday, fully vaccinated Canadians and permanent residents — those who have had a full course of a COVID-19 vaccine approved for use in Canada — will be able to skip the 14-day quarantine.

Businesses in at least 17 countries, including Canada, are trying to contain a ransomware attack that has paralyzed computer networks, a cybersecurity firm said.

South Africa's resurgence of COVID-19, centred in Johannesburg and driven by the delta variant, is setting record numbers of new daily cases, health officials said Sunday.

As millions of diners get set to return to restaurants after the pandemic, a new study from British researchers attempts to answer the age-old question of which bottle of wine is the best value on the menu — and the answer may not be the one you think.

Judges across Canada are being asked to consider whether trial delays due to COVID-19 have been entirely unavoidable - and if enough was done to reduce the impact on the families of victims and the accused.

In the early 1990s, Albert Lafferty led a push to ensure the old burial ground near the former residential school in Fort Providence, N.W.T., would never be developed. For some, the work done to find out who was buried there brings a degree of closure.

A Philippine air force C-130 aircraft carrying troops crashed in a southern province Sunday after missing the runway and at least 40 people on board were rescued from the burning wreckage, the military chief said.

Cuba prepared to evacuate people from the island's southern region on Sunday amid fears that tropical storm Elsa could unleash heavy flooding after battering several Caribbean islands, killing at least three people. Meanwhile, Florida declared a state of emergency in 15 counties.

Environmentalists criticized Mexico's state-owned oil company Saturday after a gas leak at an underwater pipeline unleashed a subaquatic fireball that appeared to boil the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.