From doodle sessions to zoo tours, here's a week of online activities to keep your kids learning during the school shutdown

Authors, scientists and others are offering fun livestream lessons and performances to keep kids engaged during isolation

Learn hip-hop dance or do citizen science without leaving home this week, thanks to the internet's many intrepid artists and educators

Steeds who made headlines for winning races now get to enjoy their final years at a slower pace

Despite historic setbacks similar to today's, Americans have become more dedicated travelers

Helping health care workers treat patients and public safety officials contain the pandemic, these robots offer lessons for future disasters

Graffiti artists and muralists are sending messages of hope and despair with coronavirus public art

Schools are shuttered, but kids can dance with New York's Ballet Hispánico and listen to a story from a certain former First Lady

“Care Package” showcases Asian American and Pacific Islander artists, writers and scholars as sources of solace during the Covid-19 pandemic

Why not use quarantine as an opportunity to have your homeschoolers master woodworking or engine repair?

The National Book Award winner's new book delves into matters of family grief and loss

vitality

Taken during the Banpo fountain light show

Two girls run up the rounded walls of the Heydar Aliyev Center in the heart of Baku.

Elder Rabari , camel breeder in Rajasthan.Light his cigarette in the middle of the night.

A macro depiction of a beetle called Epilachna chrysomelina

The water-floating farms in the Inle Lake, Myanmar.

This photo shows the beautiful landscape of Capital Reef National Park with its amazing old orchards in foreground. Capital Reef has many old orchards of peaches, apples and apricots. The park lets you eat all you want if you eat it in the orchard.

Hidden behind mountains, charming village,on the edge of the cliff with waterfall. What a place to live

In South Asia, chillis are dried on the ground, before they are preserved or made into spices. The process requires workers (usually ladies) to lay out the chillis in the sun, and flip them every now and then to ensure a consistent drying process.

A sled in the Smithsonian collections marks the historic race

The hair-care magnate at the center of the new Netflix series 'Self Made' left her imprint on the city where she launched her career

Tour a gallery of presidential portraits, print a 3-D model of a fossil or volunteer to transcribe historical documents

It all began when three frustrated women sought the no-bounce zone

In the hours after disaster struck Anchorage, an unexpected figure named Genie Chance came to the rescue

From virtual museum tours to space exploration, ancient worlds and natural phenomena, this hub has you covered

Sketches from the workshop of French engineer Gustave Eiffel suggest a different plan for Lady Liberty’s upraised arm

Plague, war and politics have altered the yearly pilgrimage to Mecca throughout history

Sheltering in place doesn’t mean you can’t study up for your next European adventure

During the Nazi occupation of France, many valuable works of art were stolen from the Jeu de Paume museum and relocated to Germany. One brave French woman kept detailed notes of the thefts

Henry Ford spent the majority of the war as a pacifist. By 1917, however, his state-of-the-art assembly line was churning out vital engine parts to feed the war machine.

A female leopard is risking life and limb by trying to steal food from another male leopard. One wrong move and the male, a third bigger than she is, could make her pay.

A trio of teenage lions are desperate to cross the shallows of the Luangwa River, in order to reunite with their pride. One problem: The river is infested with crocodiles, waiting for an easy meal.

Hadrian’s Wall was a 73 mile barrier stretching from coast to coast, splitting the warlike north of Britain from the more docile south. It was the Roman Empire’s way of imposing peace in a hostile land

New Something Awful smilies

Residents can now order up to two bottles of wine, 24 cans of beer or more than a litre of spirits from local restaurants and bars.

The government of the Northwest Territories is releasing $8.7 million in federal funding to five airlines in the N.W.T. offering schedule-based passenger service.

The N.W.T. and Nunavut Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission says it filed multiple charges in the Nunavut Court of Justice under the Nunavut Safety Act on May 1.

A trio of young northern violinists recently joined their contemporaries across Canada for a project that aims to bring people together through music — while being apart.

The remote cabin could be the difference between life and death for travellers stuck on the territory’s long winter road. It was built to remember Stella Barnaby, who would have been 55 this Saturday.

The government of the Northwest Territories has made an exemption on border restrictions for a veterinarian from Alberta to practice in the territory, after he received public and political support.

Now that the New Brunswick COVID-19 curve is flat, risk lies at the borders. What’s considered essential and non-essential travel, and how is New Brunswick making sure people coming in are following safety rules?

Days before Saint John council passed a motion to ensure Saint John Energy could not be sold, the Ontario cities of Peterborough and Orillia both got approval to sell their municipally owned power distribution companies.

Some New Brunswick business owners already facing a cash crunch because of COVID-19 have received an unwelcome shock from NB Power: electricity bills that don’t take into account how little energy they’ve been consuming.

Canadians helped liberate the Netherlands 75 years ago this week.

A 17-year-old boy from Riverview, N.B., has died after the small motorbike he was riding collided with a minivan in Lower Coverdale, a settlement southeast of Moncton.