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Hes broken his pledge never to take a vacation or play golf for pleasure. His plan to update the nations infrastructure has become a running punchline and hes dropped his threat to throw Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl out of a plane without a parachute. But...

Scientists, including those from the University of California (UC) - Davis in the US, used genomic analysis to compare the structure of the ACE2 receptor protein which the novel coronavirus uses to enter cells across 410 different species of vertebrates.

The chief medical officers of the United Kingdom have said children should return to school after the summer holidays, warning that missing out on their education posed much bigger risks to them than catching COVID19.

Four candidates vied to replace outgoing Andrew Scheer, including two former ministers, the first Seventh-day Adventist ever to be elected to parliament, and an outsider seeking to become the first black woman to lead a major federal political party in Ca...

An Interior Ministry statement said the revellers tried to squeeze en masse through the only entrance door and became trapped between the door and a staircase leading to the street.

The mother of a man fatally shot by Louisiana police said her son was intelligent, shy and had sought therapy for social anxiety. Her lawyers said they plan to sue over the death of Trayford Pellerin, who police said had a knife and was trying to enter a...

Ireland's prime minister and deputy minister asked European Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan, Ireland's representative on the EU's executive, to consider his position over his attendance at an event being investigated for breaching COVID19 regulations.

About 2,000 people in northeastern Brazil were living away from their homes Saturday after a pipe in a water diversion project ruptured, damaging a dam and flooding the project's power plant, authorities said.

A California court ordered President Donald Trump this week to pay $44,100 in attorney fees to porn actress Stormy Daniels to pay for her legal battle over her effort to cancel a hush money deal brokered to keep her quiet about their sexual relationship a...

Residents of Germany's capital Berlin can do their bit to ensure the city's trees get enough water during the hot summer months as part of a new neighbourhood initiative.

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said on Saturday he would close factories that have seen worker protests, the Russian RIA news agency reported, his latest attempt to quell a wave of opposition rallies since contested elections this month.

Anticipating a wave of mailin voting this fall, New York state will now give voters a chance to correct missing signatures and other clerical errors so their absentee ballots can be counted but the exact provisions haven't yet been made public after last...

Turkish air and naval forces conducted joint training exercises in the Aegean Sea, the countrys Defense Ministry said Saturday, amid strains with neighbor Greece over hydrocarbon discoveries.

The Democraticled U.S. House of Representatives will vote on Saturday on providing the cashstrapped Postal Service with $25 billion and block policies that have stirred concerns about mailin balloting ahead of the Nov. 3 election.

Senior South Korean and Chinese officials on Saturday reaffirmed plans to arrange a summit between their leaders at an early date once coronavirus concerns subside, Seouls presidential office said.

"Navalny's condition is stable," said Jaka Bizilj, the head of the Cinema for Peace NGO after the flight touched down at Berlin's Tegel airport.