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The 83-year-old pope, who lost part of a lung to a respiratory illness as a young man, has never canceled so many official audiences or events in his seven-year papacy.

Several thousand people attended a rally in the southwestern English city of Bristol to see Thunberg, the teenage activist who has reprimanded governments across the world over climate change.

Conspiracy theories have long circulated suggesting that Russia's President Vladimir Putin had died and been replaced by a lookalike.

South Korea reported 334 new cases of the coronavirus on Thursday, bringing the national tally to 1,595.

Harvey Weinstein, who produced multiple Oscar-winning films, was accused of sexual assault and rape by numerous women in revelations which sparked the #MeToo movement in late 2017.

Dr Ronny Jackson is one of 15 candidates in a crowded Republican primary. And the White House hasn’t gone out of its way to help.

In a video broadcast on state television, the deputy minister put on a brave face as he admitted he was infected. "I too have been infected with coronavirus," Harirchi said in the video apparently shot by himself.

Some of the protesting officers went as far as to seize the keys to the UN force's few vehicles and use them to block some roads.

Shah Mahmood Qureshi said the Afghan peace process was a complex one and there was no military solution to the conflict till Pakistan played its role in the successful negotiations.

Currently, passengers from China, Hong Kong, Thailand, South Korea, Singapore and Japan are screened at 21 designated airports in the country for a possible exposure to the novel coronavirus.

A set of 50 simple surgical masks can sell for up to HK dollar 300 (US $40), while the top of the range N95 variety is going for as high as HK dollar 1,800 a box.

The five things that you need to know about US President Donald Trump’s maiden official visit to India.

The new sultan of Oman has vowed to uphold his predecessor's foreign policy approach, which was based on non-interference.

The 12-member team, which arrived in China on Monday, was initially designated to visit only Beijing, Guangdong and Sichuan provinces as the Hubei province and its provincial capital Wuhan was conspicuously absent from the list.

According to the study, published in the Biodiversity Data Journal, the newly discovered species belongs to the so-called caenogastropods -- a group of land snails known to be sensitive to drought, temperature extremes, and forest degradation.

In a major setback for Pakistan, the country will remain on the FATF Grey List till June 2020.