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Britain's health minister said on Friday that the novel coronavirus was accelerating across the country with hospital admissions doubling every eight days but refused to say whether or not another national lockdown would be imposed next month.

Gold prices rose on Friday as gloomy U.S. jobs data cast a shadow over the economic outlook, and major central banks pledged to roll out further stimulus if required to revive their coronavirusbattered economies.

Peruvian President Martn Vizcarras job is on the line Friday as opposition lawmakers push through an impeachment hearing criticized as a hasty and poorly timed ouster attempt in one of the countries hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic.

Despite the Shiv Sena’s base among these sections, the party insists on quotas based on economic criteria, something that activists claim is a fallacy as caste is a stronger marker of discrimination. Unlike economic status, caste cannot be transcended.

Asian stocks inched up on Friday, despite Wall Street declines, but struggled to make deeper gains as worries about a faltering economic recovery kept investors to the sidelines or seeking safer harbour in assets such as the Japanese yen.

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Thursday bluntly contradicted President Donald Trump's suggestion that a coronavirus vaccine may be only weeks away, warning Americans they cannot trust the president's word.

Robert Pattinson, who plays the titular caped crusader in the superhero film, had contracted the coronavirus, following which production of 'The Batman' had reportedly come to a halt for two weeks.

The most affected states and union territories in the country are Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Delhi, said Minister of State (MoS) for Health Ashwini Choubey.

In a week when leading forecasters boosted their view of the U.S. economic recovery, data on retail store traffic, small business hiring and other highfrequency indicators largely worsened, signaling a potential decoupling in which growth presses ahead wh...

A Black man captured on video being repeatedly punched by a white Georgia sheriffs deputy during a traffic stop will be released from jail after being granted a signature bond by a judge.

President Donald Trump intensified efforts to appeal to his core base of white voters on Thursday by downplaying the historical legacy of slavery in the United States and blasting efforts to address systemic racism as divisive.

Christian Siriano, who turned his atelier into a maskmaking machine, took to his Connecticut backyard Thursday for a cozy fashion show complete with picnic baskets for his small inperson crowd, masks on the faces of his models and a dip in his pool for pr...

President Donald Trumps son Eric is willing to comply with a subpoena to testify in a New York investigation into the familys business practice, but only after the Nov. 3 election, the Trumps lawyers said in a court filing Thursday.

Poland's governing conservative party on Thursday suspended talks with its two junior coalition partners on a planned cabinet reshuffle, threatening to call early elections as internal political tensions spilled into the open.

The Miami Herald is investigating how it published a paid insert with what it called racist and antiSemitic commentary and distributed to readers of its Spanishlanguage sister paper.

Five more people succumbed to coronavirus in Chandigarh on Thursday, pushing the death toll to 106. The infection tally in the Union territory climbed to 9,256 with 288 fresh cases, as per a medical bulletin. An 81-year-old man is among the latest fat...