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Isaias skirts Florida coast, bringing heavy rain and winds

Gradual weakening will take place as it moves north and the center of the storm is expected to travel over Western Massachusetts, he said. Another front appro...

Men rescued from uninhabited Pacific island after writing SOS in sand

The men were missing in the Micronesia archipelago east of the Philippines for almost three days when their "SOS" sign was spotted by searchers on Australian an...

Trade documents stolen from Liam Fox email account

The sources also said the hack had all the hallmarks of a state-backed operation. Neither Dr Fox, now No 10's nominee to head the World Trade Organisation, no...

Ram Mandir Bhoomi Poojan: Here's PM Modi's itinerary for August 5

Bharti took the decision as a precautionary measure amid COVID-19 outbreak. "And reach the site of Ramlala only after Narendra Modi and others have left", she...

Coronavirus in Australia, August 3, 2020: how the day unfolded

From Monday regional Victorians must wear a face covering in public. "If you've got that many cases - and they're not just in metropolitan Melbourne, they're ...

Connie Culp, 1st US partial face transplant recipient, dies

The Cleveland Clinic- where the face transplant operation took place- said that Culp died on Wednesday, July 29, at the clinic due to an infection that was unre...

Humpback whale injures Australian swimmer at Ningaloo Reef, reports say

As per WA Today , the 29-year-old woman was diving with a boat charter at the popular Ningaloo Reef near Exmouth, when she accidentally got sandwiched between ...

Australia imposes strict new virus measures in Victoria as early successes unravel

Victoria today counted a further 439 new coronavirus cases and 11 deaths, bringing the state's death toll to 147. Of the 13 deaths, eight were linked to out...

Netizens share memes and jokes on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan

Raksha Bandhan , a festival where sisters offer respects to their brothers, and the brothers in return offer a gift and promise to extend protection to them all...

Broward School Buildings Won't Reopen Until COVID-19 Cases Decrease

Recovery rate among COVID-19 patients has increased to 65.44 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry. Mortal Remains of Former SP Leader Amar Singh Bro...

Prime Minister puts lockdown easing on hold amid higher cases in England

While he understood that the new restrictions would cause further financial difficulties in the north-west, namely in Greater Manchester, East Lancashire and No...

'Murder victim' found alive in woods after going missing five years ago

Howeve, the puzzle was finally solved at the start of July when officers found out that Ricardas has been living in undergrowth in Wisbech, Cambs, UK. Police sa...

Egypt tells Elon Musk its pyramids were not built by aliens

When designing the Cybertruck , Musk admits Tesla did no market research to see if there was any interest in the vehicle, the CEO reportedly told Automotive...

Prosecutor seeking Trump's taxes cites probe of his business

District Court in NY. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr has filed a subpoena to obtain eight years of Mr Trump's personal and corporate tax returns, ...

Trump fires Tennessee Valley Authority chair

As the meeting continued, the president told reporters the CEO of the TVA called to indicate he's willing to reverse course on hiring foreign workers, prompti...

14 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Luzerne County; 565 statewide

There were no deaths reported today, leaving the national death toll at 1,763. The state fell just short of Governor Asa Hutchinson's goal of testing 200,000 Ar...

British paper publishes police bodycam video of Floyd arrest

While neither clip, originally obtained by the Daily Mail , includes scenes of graphic violence, they are nevertheless hard to watch. "The more video evidence ...

Experts anxious as fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest surge in July

Deforestation struck an 11-year high in 2019 and has jumped a further 25 percent in the first half of 2020. The figure is even more troubling since 2019 was a...

Turkey regrets USA firm's signing oil deal with YPG/PKK

There was no immediate comment from US officials on Sunday. "This act, which can not be justified by any legitimate motive, is utterly unacceptable", it added...

Spain's former king Juan Carlos to leave Spain after scandal reports

Spain's Supreme Court has said it aims to establish Juan Carlos's connection with the Saudi project after his abdication in June 2014. It was not immediatel...

USA prosecutor says 'extensive criminal conduct' at Trump organisation reason for investigation

District Court in NY. Even if NY prosecutors obtain Trump's tax records, it's unlikely that they will go public before the election, as grand jury investigati...

Latest Covid-19 figures

Milwaukee County has the highest number of deaths of all counties with 446. Above, we've pulled out the five largest counties by population to look at how cas...

Coronavirus: No further deaths, 46 new cases

The department is seeing significant increases in the number of COVID-19 cases among younger age groups, particularly 19 to 24-year-olds. The Madison County H...

Indian firm gets nod for COVID-19 vaccine human trials

The candidate, is however, yet to complete its trials. "Today's investment supports our latest vaccine candidate, an adjuvanted product being developed by S...

Israel army says killed 4 planting bombs at Syria border

An army spokesman said it was too soon to say if the squad belonged to any organisation, but that Israel held "the Syrian regime accountable". Israeli militar...

Northern Ireland's 'political giant' John Hume dies at 83

In this December 10, 1998 photo, Hume, right, looks at the Nobel Peace Prize diploma that he received from Francis Sejersted, left, chairman of the Norwegian No...

Fauci to testify before Congress as coronavirus cases surge in U.S.

Fauci said there's evidence the surge across the South may be peaking, but upticks in the Midwest are now a concern. Testing bottlenecks remain a major issue. ...

New Jersey could reverse its reopening as coronavirus cases grow again

At least one gathering has contributed to the spread, state officials have said. Murphy first declared the emergency on March 9, weeks before the COVID-19 pande...

Deborah Birx: COVID-19 cases 'extraordinarily widespread'

Birx's colleagues described her as dedicated and hardworking in the Times report , but said her model-based assessment did not account for how President Donal...

There may never be a silver bullet for COVID-19

The WHO Emergency Committee on COVID-19, convened by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus under the International Health Regulations (IHR), held it...