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The suspected white supremacist who killed 51 Muslim worshippers last year, a massacre that prompted a global campaign to stamp out online hate, arrived in Christchurch on Sunday ahead of sentencing hearings.

Scientists, including those from the University of California (UC) - Davis in the US, used genomic analysis to compare the structure of the ACE2 receptor protein which the novel coronavirus uses to enter cells across 410 different species of vertebrates.

The Italian government is not considering new lockdown to curb coronavirus infections, Health Minister Roberto Speranza said in a newspaper interview on Sunday, despite a steady rise in new cases over the past month.

The mother of a man fatally shot by Louisiana police said her son was intelligent, shy and had sought therapy for social anxiety. Her lawyers said they plan to sue over the death of Trayford Pellerin, who police said had a knife and was trying to enter a...

Standing in a graveyard on the outskirts of Mexico City decked out in a cowboy hat to cover his rugged features from the sun, guitar player Eberardo Vargas this week had fewer funerals to play at than he has for most of the coronavirus pandemic.

Nearly a fifth of 11,000 people enrolled so far in a 30,000volunteer U.S. trial testing a COVID19 vaccine from Pfizer and German partner BioNTech are Black or Latino, groups among the hardest hit by the coronavirus virus pandemic, a top Pfizer executive...

Italy's health ministry on Saturday reported 1,071 new coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours, exceeding 1,000 cases in a day for the first time since May when the government eased rigid lockdown measures.

By all accounts, Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum has been a fast-rising political star in Oklahoma.

Complications pummeled Ohio Republicans this week as they sought to put up a united front headed into the GOP's national convention.

Activists said it was vital for Navalny to be taken to Berlin as soon as possible so that German doctors can establish the reason for his illness, which Russian medics had blamed on a possible blood sugar disorder.

Rather than go online or seek an alternate venue, Trump will give his speech from the White House itself.

A Florida tax collector already facing charges of stalking a political opponent and making fake driver's licenses for himself was charged Friday with the sex trafficking of a minor.

Democratic attorneys general in six more states and the District of Columbia sued the Postal Service on Friday over changes they say have undermined mailin voting ahead of the November election.

A Spanish region on Friday ordered all brothels to close after recent coronavirus clusters highlighted the difficulties of tracking contagion in these premises.

The research, published in The Lancet Rheumatology, noted a roughly 36 per cent decrease in hospital-related mortality among the ICU patients who received tocilizumab, as compared with patients in the ICU who didn't receive it.

The move was sharply criticised by church leaders and some Western countries, who said that reconverting Hagia Sophia exclusively for Muslim worship risked deepening religious rifts.