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Russian scientists are poring over the wellpreserved remains of a woolly rhinoceros that likely roamed the Siberian hinterland more than 12,000 years ago after it was found in the diamondproducing region of Yakutia.

U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden and Vice Presidentelect Kamala Harris will travel to Georgia early next month to campaign for Democratic candidates in runoff elections that could determine who controls the U.S. Senate and the fate of the incoming administra...

Responses to the coronavirus pandemic and police brutality dominated legislative sessions in 2020, leading to scores of new laws that will take effect in the new year.

At least five people were killed and dozens more wounded in an attack on Aden airport on Wednesday, a security source said, shortly after a plane carrying a newly formed cabinet for governmentheld parts of Yemen arrived from Saudi Arabia.

Chinese tourists, millions of whom have shunned overseas travel because of the global pandemic, are limiting their journeys further to nearby cities and avoiding leaving their provinces.

A former U.S. Navy analyst who served 30 years in prison for spying on behalf of Israel emigrated there on Wednesday to a warm but lowkey welcome by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

South Korean authorities scrambled to contain a cluster of coronavirus infections in a Seoul prison as inmates waved signs through barred windows pleading for help.

The Justice Department announced Tuesday that it would not bring federal criminal charges against two Cleveland police officers in the 2014 killing of 12yearold Tamir Rice, saying video of the shooting was of too poor a quality for prosecutors to conclusi...

Emergency response crews were searching on Tuesday for the driver of a truck that plunged into the water after crashing on the Chesapeake Bay BridgeTunnel.

The European Union will buy an extra 100 million doses of Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID19 vaccine, bringing the total from the two firms to 300 million doses, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday.

Riot police in Russia arrested a renegade priest in the early hours of Tuesday in a raid on a convent he had seized control of and accused him of driving children to suicide, according to his lawyer.

Bangladesh moved a second group of Rohingya Muslim refugees to a lowlying island in the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday, despite opposition from rights groups worried about the new site's vulnerability to storms.

The United States military has begun its first wave of COVID19 vaccinations in Japan, prioritising frontline medical workers.

A U.S. judge on Monday denied bail to Ghislaine Maxwell, citing the risk the British socialite might flee from charges she assisted in the late financier Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking of girls.

South Africa on Monday tightened COVID19 restrictions, banning alcohol sales and extending a nationwide curfew, as infections shot through the one million mark owing to a fasterspreading variant of the disease discovered in the country.

Russia said late on Sunday it had sent more military police to an area in northern Syria where fighters backed by Turkey have clashed with Kurdish forces near a strategic highway patrolled by Russian and Turkish troops.