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Russias status as an Olympic team, and its reputation as a serial cheater in international sports, goes on trial next week in more legal fallout from the country's statebacked doping saga.

Twitter had initially labeled Mahathir Mohammad’s tweet with a disclaimer stating that the tweet violated the rules because it was in public interest. Later, Twitter deleted the tweet but left the thread on social media intact.

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Meghan, the wife of Britain’s Prince Harry, won her bid to have a privacy action against a tabloid newspaper postponed until next Autumn after a judge heard a confidential reason from her lawyers for seeking a delay.

JJ Williams, the winger who starred for the great Wales and British and Irish Lions rugby sides in the 1970s, has died. He was 72.

China will speed up and promote green lowcarbon development and be more efficient in its use of resources, the ruling Communist Party said in a communique published by state news agency Xinhua on Thursday.

A company in Singapore has developed a breathalyser test for the new coronavirus which it says will enable people to know whether they are infected in under a minute.

Britain should act sooner rather than later if it is going to follow Germany and France and take nationwide steps to slow a second wave of the coronavirus, said Steven Riley, author of an Imperial College study into the spread of the disease.

Vietnam was on the hunt for survivors on Thursday after landslides triggered by Typhoon Molave, one of its strongest storms in decades, lashed a central region already reeling from weeks of heavy rains that have killed at least 160 people.

The action by the justices – with their new colleague Amy Coney Barrett remaining on the sidelines – means a Sept. 17 ruling by Pennsylvania’s top court allowing mail-in ballots that are postmarked by Election Day and received up to three days later to be...

Azerbaijan and Armenia accused each other of killing civilians by shelling cities in and around NagornoKarabakh on Wednesday, in an escalation of a monthlong conflict over the mountain enclave that has defied three ceasefires.

The blast occurred around 8:30 am on Tuesday at a local mosque, which also serves as a religious school in Dir Colony in interior Peshawar, while students were reading the Quran. There was no claim of responsibility for the blast in the city, bordering wa...

The companies said on Wednesday they have signed a statement of intent with vaccine alliance GAVI, which is coordinating the global plan known as COVAX.

Life sentence for Keith Raniere, 60, comes after he was found guilty of coercing women into having sex with him as the charismatic leader of Nxivm, a life-coaching group that attracted a coterie of rich and famous devotees.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to agree at a meeting with leaders of the states on Wednesday to close all restaurants and bars from Nov. 4 in a bid to curb coronavirus infections but keep schools and nurseries open, newspaper Bild reported.

The Netherlands' current partial lockdown, introduced two weeks ago amid sharply rising coronavirus infections, will likely remain in place until December, the Dutch prime minister and health minister said Tuesday, but they did not announce any new restri...