
US President Joe Biden called Chokwe Antar Lumumba, the Mayor of Jackson in Mississippi state, over the ongoing running water "crisis" in the city....

A nationwide three-digit suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline in Canada will come into effect in 2023, the country's broadcasting and telecom regulator announced....

Private companies in the US added 132,000 jobs in August, indicating a slower growth in a tight labour market, a payroll data company said in a report....

Life expectancy in the US fell in 2021, for the second year in a row and the biggest drop in almost 100 years, a report said....

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 jolted south of the Fiji Islands at 9:45 p.m, the US Geological Survey said. ...

The Public Health Agency of Canada confirmed 1,251 cases of monkeypox, including 35 hospitalisations in the country....

Germany's BioNTech SE and its US partner Pfizer Inc. have gained emergency US approval for their booster vaccination for the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in the US. ...

Some 'Indian Americans' are switching to self-identifying themselves as 'Hindu Americans' and plan to announce the rebranded entity as a political force at a 'summit' on Capitol Hill, home to the US congress, late September to deliver their message directly to the lawmakers....

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that despite current downward trend in new Covid-19 cases, more hospitalisations and deaths are expected in the coming months as colder weather approaches....

The US Justice Department virtually tore into ex President Donald Trump for his statements seeking the material seized in the FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago (Florida) residence....