BEIJING — China said Friday it will no longer recognize the British National Overseas passport as a valid travel document or form of identification amid a bitter feud with London over a plan to allow millions of Hong Kong residents a route to resid...

BUCHAREST, Romania — A fire early Friday at a key hospital in Bucharest that also treats COVID-19 patients killed at least four people, authorities said.The fire broke out around 5a.m. (0400GMT) on the ground floor of the hospital and forced the ev...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 10:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021.In Canada, the provinces are reporting 23,907 new vaccinations administered for a total of 915,231 doses given. The provinces have administered doses...

Vancouver Coastal Health is urging residents and visitors in Whistler to do what they can to prevent community transmission of COVID-19 amid a rise in cases. The health authority says in a news release that 288 infections have been recorded in th...

Victoria police arrested 23 people Wednesday in a daylong project focused on locating individuals wanted on warrants in Victoria and Esquimalt.The men and women were wanted for a variety of offences, including assault, sexual interference involving a...

A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for a 25-year-old man last seen in Victoria.Police say Steven Hagen is wanted for violating the conditions of his statutory release from prison.He’s currently serving a sentence of more than two years for multi...

West Shore RCMP have arrested a man and a woman in connection with a series of break-ins at apartment buildings in Langford. Police say thieves broke into two apartments on Hoylake Avenue on Jan. 18. In each case, video surveillance showed the cu...

Nanaimo RCMP are investigating after a woman in her 60s was assaulted in the parking lot of the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital in an attempted car-jacking on Wednesday. The woman was getting into the driver’s seat of her vehicle when she was...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021.There are 766,103 confirmed cases in Canada._ Canada: 766,103 confirmed cases (57,020 active, 689,419 resolved, 19,664 deaths).*The total case coun...

OTTAWA — The federal government will work with Indigenous leaders to co-develop legislation aimed at giving First Nations, Metis and Inuit people control over the delivery of health care in their communities.Indigenous Services Minister Marc Mille...

Vancouver Coastal Health is urging residents and visitors in Whistler, B.C., to do what they can to prevent community transmission of COVID-19 amid a rise in cases.The health authority says in a news release that 288 infections have been recorded in ...

NEW YORK — A small painting by Sandro Botticelli sold at Sotheby's in New York on Thursday for $92.2 million, an auction record for the Renaissance master.The work, "Young Man Holding a Roundel," from about 1475, depicts a young nobleman holding a ...

Corky Lee, a photojournalist who spent five decades spotlighting the often ignored Asian and Pacific Islander American communities, has died. He was 73.Lee died Wednesday in New York City's Queens borough of complications from COVID-19, his family sa...

NEW YORK — ABC News President James Goldston said Thursday that he will leave the network at the end of March, after seven years of leading the news division.The low-profile Goldston leaves at a time ABC's flagship newscasts, "World News Tonight" a...

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Country music superstar Kenny Chesney's No Shoes Reefs organization is helping to install an artificial reef off of Florida's Atlantic coast.The organization and other marine groups such as the non-profit Coastal Conservation A...

NEW YORK — Netflix is once again the top contender at the GLAAD Media Awards with 26 nominations, snapping up film nods for "Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom" and "The Prom," comedy series nominations for "Dead to Me" and "Big Mouth" and drama TV nods fo...

A breakthrough in DNA profiling has helped solve a nearly 54-year-old missing persons case involving a man from the B.C. Interior whose remains washed up on a beach on Saturna Island.The 41-year-old man was last seen in Coquitlam on May 27, 1967. His...

Montreal police say they have arrested a suspect after an officer was injured when a traffic stop turned violent.Const. Jean-Pierre Brabant says the injured officer is recovering in hospital and his life is not in danger.Police initially reported the...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The police chief of Ohio's capital and largest city was forced out Thursday after the mayor who hired him said he'd lost confidence in the chief's ability to make needed changes to the department, weeks after the police killing of ...

HOUSTON — The families of a couple killed in a 2019 drug raid by Houston police have alleged in newly filed lawsuits that the deaths of their loved ones were the tragic result of a narcotics unit that for years was rife with corruption and no accou...