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The duo was honoured "for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats," the jury said.

BEIJIJNG Chinas government says all 9 million people in the eastern city of Qingdao will be tested for the coronavirus this week after nine cases linked to a hospital were found.

Austria's main center-left party has won a regional election in Vienna that saw the far-right Freedom Party lose more than two-thirds of its support and its former leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, apparently fail to make a political comeback.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he had fully recovered from COVID19 and was not an infection risk for others, freeing him to return to holding big campaign rallies during the final weeks of the race for the White House.

Leader Kim Jong Un watched the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) roll through Kim Il Sung square -- named after his grandfather -- in Pyongyang at the climax of an unprecedented night-time parade on Saturday.

The Czech government will announce stricter measures within days to curb soaring coronavirus infections and hospitalisations but will seek to avoid the kind of blanket lockdown imposed in the spring, a deputy prime minister said on Sunday.

A blue tarp covered a hole in their roof, torn open when the last hurricane blew through. Friday night, the next hurricane tried to rip the tarp away.

An ultralight airplane collided on Saturday with another small plane, killing five people as the two aircraft fell into gardens around a town southeast of France's capital.

With more than 4,200 votes, Republicans in one New Hampshire county nominated an unconventional candidate for sheriff: a self-described satanist whose campaign slogan disparages the police.

The executive director of a Virginia economic development commission bent rules to forgive a sixfigure grant to a politically connected developer whose planned biofuel project didnt pan out, documents obtained by The Associated Press show.

Malaysia's maritime authorities said on Saturday they had detained 60 Chinese nationals and six Chineseregistered fishing vessels they said were trespassing into the Southeast Asian country's waters.

Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces in NagornoKarabakh were due to halt hostilities later on Saturday after a deal was struck in Moscow between Baku and Armenia to allow prisoners and the bodies of the dead to be exchanged.

NEW DELHI Indias confirmed coronavirus cases are nearing 7 million with another 73,272 reported in the past 24 hours.

Delta, now a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, hit land at 6 p.m. Friday near the Gulf Coast town of Creole, the NHC said.

The debate, originally scheduled as a town hall-style encounter in Miami, was intended to be the second of three presidential debates.

The head of the World Food Program said winning the Nobel Peace Prize while he was visiting the impoverished and warweakened Sahel was a message to the world that it should not forget the region.