The peak of the hurricane season is just days away and forecasters on Sunday have their eyes on four potential areas for development out in the Atlantic basin.
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un made a recent visit to an area in the Hermit Kingdom that was slammed by a typhoon, firing a top official there as communist party officials have warned other local leaders they must follow orders when such storms strike, state media reported Sunday.
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is responding “optimally” to COVID-19 treatment as he remains hospitalized but is the most vulnerable type of patient because of his age and is in “the most delicate phase” of the virus, his personal doctor told reporters Sunday.
Police in England are searching for a lone suspect after a series of late-night stabbings in the city of Birmingham left one man dead and seven others injured, police said Sunday.
Groups of far-left environmental activists blockaded two British printing presses on Saturday, preventing a number of newspapers being delivered -- a move that drew criticism from across the political spectrum and was condemned by Prime Minister Boris Johnson as “completely unacceptable.”
Students were dragged from the fourth week of protests against the contested re-election of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, by masked men who hauled them into vans, reported Reuters Saturday.
Japanese residents braced for impact on Saturday as the powerful Super Typhoon Haishen barreled through unusually warm waters towards the Okinawa islands.
Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has the early stages of double pneumonia after being hospitalized for testing positive for coronavirus, the country's national news agency reported Friday.