Katarina Holtzapple

A video of Lebanese doctor Israa Seblani's wedding was seen across the world when she was nearly blown away by the Beirut port blast. Almost a year later, she and her husband revisit the square where it happened and reflect on the sadness the day represents.

Members of the Refugee Olympic Team told media they hoped their participation at the Tokyo Olympic Games would help bring attention to the plight of the more than 80 million people forcibly displaced worldwide.

In a video posted by his office, Tunisian President Kais Saied told those who called his decisions to disband Parliament and fire the prime minister to "revise your constitutional lessons".

Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz took first place in the women's 55-kilogram class, bringing home the first ever gold for the Philippines since the country began competing in the Olympics in 1924.

Members of Japan's Burmese community protested outside of the National Stadium, the main site of the 2020 Games, to protest and bring attention to the coup in Myanmar.

A week after requiring vaccinations or weekly testing for public health care workers, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced all municipal workers must get a coronavirus vaccines by mid-September or face weekly Covid-19 testing. The rule is expected to affect about 340,000 city employees, making the city one of the largest employers in the US to take such action.

The Tokyo Olympics were declared open in an eerily empty stadium on Friday after a year-long pandemic delay and lingering coronavirus threats that will make them perhaps the most unusual Games in history.

Videos posted by the UC Davis and the Truckee and Meadows fire departments show firefighters driving through the Tamarack blaze.

A joint police team from Bulgaria, Hungary and Greece arrested an alleged people smuggling gang that would drive at top speed in high-end cars to evade officers.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei received his second dose of the domestically produced Covid vaccine. He said the difficulties of obtaining vaccines have shown Iran that they must not rely on others.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke at the National Summit on Islamophobia, part of the Federal Anti-Racism Secretariat’s National Anti-Racism Summits Series.

British right-wing extremist Tommy Robinson lost a libel case in which he said a Syrian-born pupil attacked local girls and was 'not innocent' after a video of the boy being attacked went viral in 2018.

Dr Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, urged Americans to get vaccinated as she warned the US is at a 'pivotal moment'.

Unprecedented downpour dumped a year's worth of rain in only three days on the city of Zhengzhou, China, with the resulting floods claiming at least 33 lives.

Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty in a Los Angeles court to all 11 charges of rape and sexual assault against five women.