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UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the government is expanding trials of two new tests a no-swab saliva test and another that gives results in minutes.

Malaysia on Thursday added at least nine more countries, including the United States, Britain and France, to its list of longterm immigration pass holders to be barred from the country, national news wire Bernama reported.

Two men from Britain and Australia have been arrested on Indonesia's resort island of Bali for possession of methamphetamine and ecstasy, police said Thursday.

South Korea, scrambling to control a second wave of COVID19, vowed on Thursday to double its criticalcare hospital beds amid a severe shortage, highlighting the strain of the pandemic on even wellequipped countries.

A ship carrying 43 crew and nearly 6,000 cattle from New Zealand to China capsized after losing an engine in stormy weather in the East China Sea, the only crew member rescued so far told Japan's coastguard on Thursday.

When Michael Cohen testified before Congress last year, Republican lawmakers worried aloud that President Donald Trump's former fixer would parlay the spectacle and his criminal exploits into a bestseller.

The beam of a police officers flashlight swept across a group of 15 people standing on the sidewalk in downtown Portland, Oregon, recording and taking photos of the nightly protests that have roiled the city for three months.

As the 2020 presidential race between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden heats up, Attorney General William Barr warned of the potential of substantial fraud in voting by mail but he omitted necessary context, and states that rely on the proce...

Minutes after pulling into a Florida strip mall parking lot, gunshots rang out in the darkness. Charles McMillon told his 10yearold son and another passenger to take cover. A white couple approached with guns in their hands. McMillon, who is Black, put hi...

Both President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden will commemorate the 19th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in rural Pennsylvania where one of the hijacked planes crashed in a field, the White House and Biden's campaign announced Wednesd...

A public school in Brooklyn is looking to show how classes can be moved outside to more safely facilitate inperson learning.

The sight of a huge oil tanker that has taken on water and is leaning to one side off a remote stretch of Venezuela's coast has triggered international calls for action.

A man who says he alerted authorities to a string of suspicious patient deaths at a West Virginia veterans hospital has filed a lawsuit claiming he was wrongfully suspended because of his actions, a newspaper reported.

The beachfront terrace at the Excelsior Hotel, usually hopping with movie industry VIPs and minor celebrities, is pleasantly quiet. The red carpet has a threemeterhigh (tenfoot)wall blocking the publics view. Veteran filmgoers walk away dejected after bei...

Tens of thousands of youngsters headed to sports arenas across Uzbekistan on Wednesday to sit university entrance exams in the open air due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Spain's coast guard rescued three boatloads of migrants from waters off Gran Canaria on Wednesday, bringing them ashore to join another 150 people forced to camp on the dockside as officials struggle to cope with a monthslong migratory surge.