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Britain's Prince William will on Thursday launch a multimillionpound global prize aimed at solving some of the world's greatest environmental problems.

Tunisian authorities will impose a curfew in the capital Tunis to slow a surge in coronavirus cases, months after stopping a first wave with an expensive lockdown that the government says it cannot afford to repeat.

In normal times, vice presidential debates don't matter much. But in an election year as wild as 2020, everything is magnified.

Mario Molina, winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1995 and the only Mexican scientist to be honored with a Nobel, died Wednesday in his native Mexico City. He was 77 years old.

Saudi Arabia's former intelligence chief and ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz, said the kingdom must focus on its own interests and security while supporting the Palestinian cause.

Jordans King Abdullah II on Wednesday designated his chief policy adviser to form a new government amid criticism of the previous government's handling of the virus pandemic.

A man accused of a series of killings that terrorized a Tampa neighborhood in 2017 will face four separate trials, a judge ruled Wednesday.

Relatives and supporters of a Palestinian man held without charge by Israel said he was in critical condition in an Israeli hospital Wednesday following a hunger strike of more than 70 days.

A calligraphy scroll by former Chinese leader Mao Zedong estimated to be worth millions of dollars was cut in half after it was stolen last month in a highprofile burglary in Hong Kong, police said.

Europe's treatment of its Roma people has been inexcusable" over the past decade, a top European Union official said Wednesday as she presented a 10year plan to improve life for the large ethnic minority.

Tasmanian devils, the carnivorous marsupials whose feisty, frenzied eating habits won the animals cartoon fame, have returned to mainland Australia for the first time in some 3,000 years.

Lawyers for Dr. Rick Bright said he was sidelined at the National Institutes of Health, where he had been transferred this spring after being ousted as head of a biodefense agency.

The mother of a 2yearold girl whose body was found in a Houston bayou in August and the womans boyfriend have been arrested for their roles in her death, police announced Tuesday.

President Donald Trump is back to making false comparisons between COVID19 and the flu, contradicting science and even himself.

Still sickened by COVID19, President Donald Trump plunged back on Tuesday into playing down the disease that hospitalized him for three days and has so far killed more than 210,000 Americans. He compared it anew to the seasonal flu and signaled he plans t...

Evoking the UK's recovery from the Second World War, he said he wanted to build a "new Jerusalem", with opportunity for all, improved housing and healthcare.