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Next comes the bit that may be even trickier: forging a new relationship, which means a trade deal, but also agreements covering everything from security to telecoms policy.

The president was not at the resort at the time although he is scheduled to arrive there later on Friday.

Britain's 47-year membership of the bloc will end on the stroke of 2300 GMT -- midnight Brussels time, three and a half years after a shock referendum vote to leave.

Wage gains for women have been driven by the rapid increase in jobs requiring "social" skills and higher skills, such as critical thinking, where women now represent a majority, according to the report by the Pew Research Center, an independent American r...

All the deaths so far have been in China, where the virus originated in an illegal wildlife market in Wuhan city, as have the vast majority of the more than 8,100 cases of the flu-like illness detected globally, according to official data.

Mike Pompeo's remarks came as Washington presses Britain and other European states to exclude China's Huawei tech giant from their next-generation 5G mobile networks.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Korea confirmed two more cases Thursday, bringing the total six.

The genetic sequences of the samples were nearly identical, which indicates a very recent emergence of the virus into humans, according to the researchers.

Scientists in Antarctica have recorded, for the first time, unusually warm water beneath the Thwaites glacier.

The vote at the parliament in Brussels, which came after an emotional debate, was passed by 621 to 49, prompting MEPs to burst into a chorus of 'Auld Lang Syne', a traditional Scottish song of farewell.

The Chinese government has always adopted an open, transparent and responsible attitude to timely release of information on the epidemic to domestic and foreign countries, Xi Jinping said.

The fire that engulfed the whole building caused its roof to collapse and damaged the structure located adjacent to it, a report said.

A special court in Islamabad on December 17 last year handed down the death penalty to the 74-year-old retired general, now based in Dubai, after six years of hearing the high-profile treason case against him.

Air India has kept a 423-seater jumbo plane ready in Mumbai for evacuating Indian citizens from Wuhan city, an official source said Tuesday.

The Mata Deval Bhittani temple in a village near Thar's Chhachro town in Sindh province was vandalised by four men on Sunday night.

All four, including two children, are in stable condition. They are tourists from Wuhan who entered Malaysia for a holiday via neighbouring Singapore.