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  • A health-care worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a UHN COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Toronto on Thursday, January 7, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

    Countries urge drug companies to share vaccine know-how

  • Assistant Principal Janette Van Gelderen, left, welcomes students at Newhall Elementary School Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, in Santa Clarita, Calif. Elementary school students returned to school this week in the Newhall School District. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

    Deal reached to get California children back in classrooms

  • Police tape is pictured in this file photo.

    One student hurt in school shooting in Arkansas

  • A view of St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, Monday, March 1, 2021. Buckingham Palace says Prince Philip has been transferred to another London hospital to undergo testing and observation for a pre-existing heart condition as he continues treatment for an unspecified infection. The palace says Philip, the 99-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth II, was transferred from King Edward VII's Hospital to St Bartholomew's Hospital. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

    Prince Philip moved to specialized London heart hospital

  • In this Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021 file photo, customers use the light from a cell phone to look in the meat section of a grocery store that was without power, in Dallas. Brazos Electric Power Cooperative Inc., the oldest and biggest generation and transmission power cooperative in Texas has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection following last month’s winter storm that left millions without power. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

    Texas power company seeks bankruptcy protection after storm

  • People wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus walk out of a site for mass COVID-19 testing in a central district of Beijing, Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. Beijing has ordered fresh rounds of coronavirus testing for about 2 million people in the downtown area following new cases in the Chinese capital. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

    Japan asks China to stop using anal COVID-19 test swabs on its citizens

  • Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy leaves the courtroom Monday, March 1, 2021 in Paris. A Paris court on Monday found French former President Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of corruption and influence peddling and sentenced him to one year in prison and a two-year suspended sentence. The 66-year-old politician, who was president from 2007 to 2012, was convicted for having tried to illegally obtain information from a senior magistrate in 2014 about a legal action in which he was involved. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

    Former French President Sarkozy convicted in corruption case; handed 1 year jail term

  • Protesters set up barricade during an anti-coup protest march in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, March 1, 2021. Defiant crowds returned to the streets of the country's biggest city on Monday, determined to continue their protests against the military's seizure of power a month ago, despite security forces having killed at least 18 people around the country just a day earlier. (AP Photo)

    Protesters take to streets in Myanmar, police respond with deadly force

  • New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a press conference before the opening of a mass COVID-19 vaccination site in the Queens borough of New York, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. This FEMA run site, along with another in Brooklyn, gives priority to local residents in an effort to equitably distribute the vaccine. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool)

    Cuomo sorry for remarks aide 'misinterpreted' as harassment