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  • In this photo taken on Thursday, Nov.8, 2018 people walk on the Interpol logo at the international police agency headquarters in Lyon, central France. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

    Reputed Canadian drug kingpin, 57, arrested in Holland on Interpol warrant

  • Care home worker Pillay Jagambrun, 61, receives the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in The Vaccination Hub at Croydon University Hospital, south London, on the first day of the largest immunization program in the UK's history, Tuesday Dec. 8, 2020. (Dan Charity/Pool via AP)

    Nearly 6 million get first shot of coronavirus vaccine in UK as deaths approach 100,000

  • A police officer takes images of a torched coronavirus testing facility in the Dutch fishing village of Urk, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021, after it was torched Saturday night by rioting youths protesting on the first night of a nation-wide curfew. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

    Teens riot against curfew in Dutch village; burn down COVID-19 testing site

  • In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, rescuers carry a miner who was trapped in a mine to an ambulance in Qixia City in east China's Shandong Province, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. Eleven workers trapped for two weeks by an explosion inside a Chinese gold mine were brought safely to the surface on Sunday. (Chen Hao/Xinhua via AP)

    Eleven gold miners rescued more than two weeks after underground collapse in China

  • People stand in front of police officers during a protest against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021. Russian police on Saturday arrested hundreds of protesters who took to the streets in temperatures as low as minus-50 C (minus-58 F) to demand the release of Alexei Navalny, the country's top opposition figure. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

    3,000 arrested at protests demanding Navalny's release

  • Medical staff prepare take a COVID-19 test from a visitor to a drive through community based assessment centre in Christchurch, New Zealand, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

    New Zealand reports 1st community case in months

  • FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2021, file photo President Joe Biden signs a series of executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

    In first days, Biden flashes action as deep problems loom

  • Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a coronavirus press conference at 10 Downing Street in London, Friday Jan. 22, 2021. Johnson announced that the new variant of COVID-19, which was first discovered in the south of England, may be linked with an increase in the mortality rate. (Leon Neal/Pool via AP)

    Boris Johnson presses Biden for new trade deal

  • A Mega Millions playslip for those players preferring to choose the numbers they want to play is among the stacks of other lottery game playslips on display at a Smoker Friendly store, Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, in Cranberry Township, Pa. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

    Michigan Mega Millions ticket wins $1.05 billion jackpot

  • Bernie Sanders turned his inauguration meme into a sweatshirt for charity. (Friends of Bernie Sanders via CNN)

    Bernie Sanders turns inauguration meme into sweatshirt for charity

  • Government workers wearing personal protective equipment walk at the closed area of Jordan district in Hong Kong, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021. Thousands of Hong Kong residents were locked down Saturday in an unprecedented move to contain a worsening outbreak in the city, authorities said. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

    Thousands of Hong Kongers locked down to contain coronavirus

  • On the first full day of the Democratic majority in the Senate, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, is joined by Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., center, and Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., during a press event at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. The pivotal Georgia runoff election this month was decisive in handing Democrats the majority in the Senate. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

    Schumer: Trump impeachment trial to begin week of Feb. 8

  • Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks at 10 Downing Street in central London on January 15. (Dominic Lipinski/Pool/AFP/Getty Images via CNN)

    COVID-19 variant found in UK may be more deadly than others, says Boris Johnson

  • Residents wear masks as they past by a seamstress along an alleyway in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. Life appears to be back to normal on the eve of the anniversary of the 76-day lockdown in the central Chinese city where the coronavirus was first detected. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

    A year after Wuhan lockdown, a world still deep in crisis