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The award ceremony for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, traditionally held at the Oslo city hall on Dec. 10, will instead be held in scaleddown form at the citys university because of the coronavirus outbreak.

A new report documenting antiSemitism in Berlin reveals that little progress has been made in combatting the problem in the German capital.

Heavily pregnant Taj Bibi prays for her fourth husband as the Afghan soldier sets off to battle the Taliban, hoping his fate won't be the same as that of his three brothers, her first three husbands, all killed fighting the militants.

The weekly number of new COVID19 cases in the United States rose last week for the first time after falling for eight straight weeks, an increase that health experts attributed to schools reopening and parties over the Labor Day holiday.

Tropical Storm Beta made landfall on the upper Texas coast late Monday night.

The year 2020 was supposed to be a big one for Pilgrims.

Rescuers were trying to refloat hundreds of whales stranded on a sandbar off the remote west coast of the Australian island of Tasmania on Tuesday, hoping to end one of the country's worst beaching events.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden appears to be leading President Donald Trump among likely voters in Wisconsin, while the two are about even in Pennsylvania, according to Reuters/Ipsos opinion polls released on Monday.

A tropical storm developing in the Pacific Ocean, was slowly sweeping toward Japan on Tuesday, threatening the main island of Honshu with heavy rainfall and harsh winds.

Two Virginia residents were arrested Monday after authorities said they were found walking on railroad tracks behind an Ohio airport with shovels, a pitchfork and a backpack containing a gun and ammunition.

For decades, women have dealt cards or served drinks in casinos, but they rarely got the chance to run the joint.

Canadian police on Monday searched an apartment in a Montreal suburb linked to the woman arrested for sending a ricinfilled envelope to the White House and to five other addresses in Texas, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday it had posted guidance on possible transmission of the new coronavirus through airborne particles in error and it will be updating its recommendations.

Italy's centreleft looked set to rebuff a strong challenge by the right in a regional vote, holding onto its historic Tuscan stronghold, early count projections showed on Monday, in a boost to the fragile coalition government.

The Latest on the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (all times local):

Toxins in water produced by cyanobacteria killed more than 300 elephants in Botswana this year, officials said on Monday, announcing the result of an investigation into the deaths which had baffled and alarmed conservationists.