(Bloomberg) -- The World Trade Organization postponed its in-person ministerial conference in Geneva as Switzerland tightened travel restrictions following the discovery of a new strain of the coronavirus, people familiar with the situation said.

A COVID-19 variant in South Africa has been dubbed "omicron" and classified as a highly transmissible "variant of concern."

At least 52 people have died from a Siberian coal mine fire that resulted from a gas leak, Russia’s TASS news agency reported Thursday.

For a limited time only, police are helping drivers bring home the turkey, not tickets.

Critical as the legal win is, it is also an admission that the fatal shooting of a Black man by white men determined to see him as a threat should never have happened at all.