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The United States entered the final month of the year with expectations that promising vaccine candidates will soon be approved to halt the rapidly spreading coronavirus after 4.2 million new cases were reported in November.

Hundreds of Papuans held rallies across at least eight cities in Indonesia on Tuesday to renew calls for independence, as a separatist group declared it had established a provisional government in exile.

Mitree Chitinunda was such a devoted Thai royalist that he had the king's portrait cut into his hair last year, but politics like fashion and hairstyles is changing in Thailand.

In a season of few Champions League wins or points for teams trying to break into the elite, two newcomers get a rare chance Wednesday.

A few hundred people marched in central Mexico City on Monday to protest the killing of a French businessman and his Mexican colleague over the weekend, the latest violent crime to inflame concerns about security in the country.

The British government on Monday rejected calls to hold a public inquiry into the 1989 murder in Northern Ireland of human rights lawyer Pat Finucane, whose death remains a lightning rod for anger over state collusion with proBritish paramilitaries.

The German soccer federation is sticking with Joachim Lw as coach of the national team despite the 60 loss to Spain.

Governments across Europe are trying to navigate between avoiding spreading the coronavirus over the Christmas holiday season and allowing people to celebrate with family and friends.

The Kremlin on Monday rebuffed calls by Moldova's incoming president, Maia Sandu, for Russian troops to withdraw from the breakaway region of Transdniestria, saying it would be seriously destabilising.

America the Beautiful is this year's Christmas theme at the White House.

Ethiopian farmer Berhan Halie came to Sudan 35 years ago to escape hunger.

Vaccine maker Novavax Inc said on Monday it has pushed back the start of a U.S.based, latestage trial for its experimental COVID19 vaccine and now expects it to begin in the coming weeks instead of November.

Homeland Security Investigations officials are preparing for a crush of new scams when the coronavirus vaccine is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which could come in a few weeks.

Hollywood legend Sean Connery died in his sleep from pneumonia, heart failureand old age, his death certificate has revealed. The Legendary Scottish star, who became a global sensation as the first James Bond and featured in a string of cult hits in his...

Doctors are studying the impact of COVID19 on pregnant women and their unborn babies in Singapore, where an infant delivered by an infected mother earlier this month had antibodies against the virus but did not carry the disease.

Britain is at risk of suffering a third wave of coronavirus infections if it does not get the approach to lockdown restrictions right, foreign minister Dominic Raab said on Sunday.