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Police said Thursday they had to help free an airplane that got stuck under an overpass on one of Mexico Citys busiest roads.

Television viewership Wednesday for the third night of the Democrats' virtual convention, which featured speeches by vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris and former President Barack Obama, rose to 22.8 million viewers.

Northern Ireland tightened restrictions on the size of gatherings as it faces a rise in new cases of COVID19.

With coronavirus cases surging and less than two weeks of the school holidays left, parents, teachers and opposition politicians in Spain are angry at the government's plans for reopening classrooms.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government's top infectious disease expert, underwent surgery Thursday to remove a growth from his vocal cord that was causing his notably raspy voice.

The United States on Thursday blacklisted senior Syrian government officials and leaders of several Syrian military units as Washington continues to impose sanctions aimed at cutting off funds for Syrian President Bashar alAssad’s government.

It's mostly quiet in the Alabama farming community of Thorsby aside from trucks and trains that rumble through bound for someplace larger. Remembering directions to the town's football stadium isn't hard; there aren't that many roads to take or turns to m...

Bannon, an architect of the nationalist populism that has defined Trump's presidency, has been charged with defrauding Trump supporters in a campaign to help build the president's signature wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

As a former culture minister and ambassador to France, Pavel Latushko is the most wellconnected member of a new council established by the political opposition in Belarus to facilitate a transition of power amid massive protests challenging the continued...

German federal police said on Thursday they had arrested a 55year old former Yugoslavian man who was sentenced 23 years ago in Croatia for crimes against humanity but who never served his prison term.

Thai police said on Thursday they had arrested eight more activists, including two popular rappers, in a crackdown after more than a month of protests against the militarybacked government that have also challenged the powerful monarchy.

In the biggest speech of his nearly 50 years in public life, Joe Biden will spell out his vision for the presidency on Thursday when he accepts the Democratic nomination to challenge Donald Trump in the Nov. 3 U.S. election.

Poland's foreign minister announced his resignation Thursday in the fourth highlevel departure this week from the country's rightwing government.

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was in a coma in a Siberian hospital on Thursday after drinking a cup of tea that his spokeswoman said she believed was laced with poison.

The case against former Nissan executive Carlos Ghosn may have taken another turn as Japanese media report allegations that the automaker declared as expenses 1.15 billion yen ($10.8 million) in his taxable personal income.

Police ordered a gathering near an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in the southern part of the U.S. city of Portland to disperse after declaring it an "unlawful assembly" on Wednesday.