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Firefighters waged an allout ground and air campaign on Tuesday to save the famed Mount Wilson Observatory and an adjacent hub of communications towers from a wildfire roaring through rugged peaks overlooking the foothill suburbs north of Los Angeles.

The city government of Louisville, Kentucky, is expected to announce a $12 million financial settlement on Tuesday with the family of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman shot dead by police in March, the New York Times reported.

Teachers in the Spanish city of Bilbao staged a oneday strike on Tuesday to protest against their regional government's response to the COVID19 crisis, while health workers in Madrid took to the streets to demand better working conditions.

Greek authorities on Tuesday tightened restrictions to stem the spread of the coronavirus in the greater Athens area, saying the pandemic was showing "worrying signs of resilience".

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny shared a picture from hospital on Tuesday, sitting up in bed and surrounded by his family, with the message that he was now able to breathe independently following his suspected poisoning last month.

Earlier, a Reuters report quoted a senior government official as saying that such cables would provide forward troops with secure lines of communication to bases in the area.

The wildfires sweeping the Pacific Northwest assumed center stage on Monday in the U.S. presidential race, with President Donald Trump set to visit California after blaming the blazes on poor forest management and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, str...

All study participants received remdesivir, a Gilead Sciences drug previously shown to reduce the time to recovery, defined as being well enough to leave the hospital, by four days on average.

Scientists have spotted evidence of potential life on the planet Venus, though they emphasized that more work needs to be done to confirm whether or not life possibly aerial microbes exists or whether there is an alternative nonbiological explanation fo...

Gaining strength in the Atlantic Ocean, Hurricane Paulette bore down on Bermuda on Sunday with its core expected to pass over the island beginning early Monday morning, according to the latest advisory from the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC).

The mayor of Bogota begged forgiveness on Sunday and called for reconciliation after protests in Colombia’s capital the past week left 10 civilians dead and hundreds injured.

New Zealand will lift coronavirus restrictions across the country on September 21, except in its biggest city, Auckland, which is the epicentre of a second wave of infections, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday.

According to the prosecution, Das, along with his associates, killed his step-brother Anil Kumar Das, a retired teacher of a primary school in Tangail, and his wife Kalpana Rani at their home at Rasulpur on July 26, 2017, to grab their property.

South Korea on Sunday eased its tough social distancing policy for the next two weeks in the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area, with new daily novel coronavirus cases hovering stubbornly within triple digits.

Biden has hammered Trump for failing to lay out a national strategy to combat the pandemic, which has killed more than 193,000 people in the United States.

French authorities deployed a heavy police presence in Paris and used tear gas on Saturday as the "yellow vest" movement returned to the capital after being dampened by the coronavirus crisis.