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Two NHL teams have combined to give ice hockey fan Nadia Popovici a $10,000 scholarship for medical school as a thank you for advising Vancouver Canucks assistant equipment manager Brian "Red" Hamilton to get a mole behind his neck checked out.

Riot police with batons and shields tried to break up a crowd of several thousand who had gathered in the Dutch capital on Sunday to protest against Covid-19 lockdown measures and vaccinations.

What's Elon Musk doing with the billions he's collected in the past two months from selling shares in Tesla?

The stock market just wrapped up one of its best years on record. Can it repeat its stellar performance in 2022, even when faced with inflation concerns and rising interest rates?

Mali's interim authorities proposed to its West African neighbors that a transition back to democracy following a 2020 military coup be extended by five years, the foreign minister said in comments broadcast on Saturday.

The Omicron variant's rapid spread across France has prompted the government to slash Covid-19 isolation times for vaccinated people and move to further isolate the unvaccinated from public venues in a bid to ease the financial and social burdens of the outbreak.

America's oldest folk parade returns Sunday after coronavirus shut down the New Year's Day tradition that has come under scrutiny for racist and other offensive costumes worn by some participants throughout the years.

Footprints discovered on a beach in Wales are believed to have been made by an early dinosaur more than 200 million years ago, experts say.

Belal Khohestani wishes the United States would feel like home. The former pilot for the Afghan Special Mission Wing -- the elite of Afghanistan's military -- recently moved from Fort Pickett in Virginia to Chicago, where he has found a place to live and a roommate.

In 2022, the European Union must confront some of the most difficult challenges it faces if it is ever to become the geopolitical power its leaders so desperately want it to be.

Three people have been killed and four others injured at a New Year's Eve party in Mississippi when multiple people started shooting following a physical altercation.

You soon won't be able to use that old BlackBerry phone sitting at the bottom of your drawer somewhere.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu's family and friends gathered for his official state funeral on New Year's Day in Cape Town, capping a week of events honoring a man long considered the moral compass of South Africa.

A total of 874 vehicles were set ablaze across France on New Year's Eve as part of a decades-old tradition.

"Where we're going, we don't need roads."

Prince Andrew has been asked to provide documents proving his "alleged medical inability to sweat" in a court filing by attorneys for Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who has accused the royal of sexual assault in a US civil lawsuit.

President Joe Biden will return to the White House from an abbreviated winter break facing a set of hurdles that will test his political, diplomatic and management skills at a trying moment for his presidency.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has again admitted there is a "food problem" in the country, during a speech which brought an important five-day meeting of his Korean Worker's Party to a close.

Pope Francis has condemned violence against women as an "insult to God" in his New Year's Day homily.

A stampede at one of India's holiest shrines left at least 12 people dead on New Year's Day, a local official said.

Depicting a heap of screaming faces and contorted torsos, the "Pillar of Shame" was not just a reminder of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre -- it was, for many, an emblem of free speech in Hong Kong.

Tony Blair, the former UK prime minister is to be knighted with the highest possible ranking in the New Year's Honours List, Buckingham Palace announced Friday.

Colorado resident Hunt Frye was shopping for his sick wife when suddenly told to evacuate Costco as fast moving fires were moving through the community.

Actor Henry Winkler remembers the life of Betty White. The former Golden Girl and national treasure has died at age 99, her longtime agent said in a statement to People.

Warren Buffett, the ninth-richest person on the planet, says it's not up to him to settle a strike by 450 steelworkers at a company he owns.

Betty White, former Golden Girl and national treasure, has died at age 99, her longtime agent said in a statement to People magazine.

A vicious wildfire that began Thursday morning in Boulder County, Colorado, swallowed about 1,600 acres in a matter of hours, burning hundreds of homes and prompting orders for some 30,000 people in two communities to evacuate.

Residents of two towns outside Boulder, Colorado were forced to evacuate due to wildfires driven by wind gusts as high as 115 mph.

Omicron is now the dominant variant in France

Every family has its breakdowns, but the outside world doesn't usually hear about them. The royal family doesn't like to air its dirty laundry in public either, traditionally preferring to adopt the Queen's mantra of "never complain, never explain." So, when there's a wobble in that stiff upper lip, people lap up every detail.

After a woman tested positive for Covid-19 midflight, the bathroom became her seat for the next few hours.

Hong Kong has confirmed its first Omicron cluster, bringing an end to its long streak of zero locally transmitted cases and prompting fears of a wider outbreak as the city prepares to ring in the new year.

Just a day after the US reported its highest average daily Covid-19 case number, the country shattered that record again Thursday, with an average of 355,990 new infections reported every day in the past week, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

2021 wasn't supposed to end like this.

The quick spread of the Omicron variant is putting a damper on New Year's Eve celebrations around the world. While some smaller events are still taking place, it will be a grim start to another year of the coronavirus pandemic. CNN's Hala Gorani takes a look at how major cities around the world plan to ring in 2022 in the shadow of the Omicron variant.

People around the world are beginning to wave goodbye to 2021 and welcome 2022.

"Historic" 80-100 mph winds, with gusts as high as 115 mph, fed wildfires that injured at least six people, prompted a hospital to send patients elsewhere and forced the evacuation of two towns near Boulder, Colorado.

President Joe Biden urged his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on Thursday to take steps to ease an unremitting crisis on Russia's border with Ukraine, warning again of dire economic consequences should Putin proceed with an invasion.

A Māori journalist has made history in New Zealand by becoming the first person with traditional facial markings to host a primetime news program on national television.

The flurry of lawsuits filed in recent weeks trying to stop the House January 6 committee's subpoenas are revealing, in many ways, the opposite: That the House has been largely successful at sweeping up documents for the probe and interviewing dozens of major witnesses.

In a recently published New York Times op-ed piece, Dr. Daniela Lamas warned of "compassion fatigue" amongst hospital healthcare workers toward unvaccinated patients.