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Queen Elizabeth II has joined in the virtual unveiling of a new portrait commissioned by Britains Foreign Office to honor her services to diplomacy.

The Chinese order to close it was retaliation after the Trump administration gave China until 4 pm last Friday to vacate its consulate in Houston.

But the 32-year-old mother of three's story did not have a happy ending, as her husband Adolfo Mamani, 57, died on Tuesday.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Saturday condemned statements by Greek officials and a flagburning protest in Greece after the first Islamic prayers in nine decades were held at Istanbul's Hagia Sophia.

China's largest carrier rocket, the Long March 5 Y-4, blasted off with the probe at 12:41 p.m. from Wenchang Space Launch Centre on the southern island of Hainan.

Face mask has spread faster and wider than any other item in the history of dress, said Valerie Steele, chief museum curator at the Fashion Institute.

Regrets, he's had a few.

Seeking to address newly rising infection numbers, Washington, D.C., is mandating that anyone arriving in the nation's capital after nonessential travel to a coronavirus hot spot area must selfquarantine for 14 days.

McDonald's says it will be requiring customers to wear face coverings when entering its U.S. restaurants as the number of new virus cases continue to surge in many states.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that states that are currently coronavirus hot spots may need to delay reopening schools by a few weeks, but otherwise pushed for students to be able to return to classrooms en masse in the fall.

The nation's governors were priming for battle against the coronavirus as early as February, but President Donald Trump's lackadaisical approach to the spreading disease hindered a national response, according to Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, chairman of the...

A top Turkish court announced this month it annulled Hagia Sophia's status as a museum. Erdogan immediately turned back into a mosque a building which was a Christian Byzantine cathedral for 900 years before being seized by Ottoman conquerors and serving...

The Nationals and Yankees knelt in unison before the first game of the baseball season as part of an opening day ceremony Thursday night that featured references to the Black Lives Matter movement, the coronavirus pandemic -- including an off-the-mark fir...

The Senate on Thursday joined the House in defying a veto threat from President Donald Trump to approve defense legislation that would remove the names of Confederate officers from American military bases such as Fort Bragg and Fort Benning.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic forced the NBA to pause its season in March, the Celtics were a team still trying to figure out what it could be.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is scheduled to join hundreds of worshipers Friday for prayers inside the former Byzantine cathedral.