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Presumptive Democratic party presidential nominee Joe Biden on Tuesday named 55-year-old Harris as his vice presidential running mate, making history by selecting the first black woman to compete on a major party's presidential ticket.

New Zealand officials were scrambling to trace the source of an outbreak of the coronavirus, reporting 14 new cases on Thursday, as long queues of people formed to escape a renewed lockdown in the country's biggest city or be tested for the virus.

China reported 19 new coronavirus cases on the mainland on Aug. 12, down from 25 on the previous day, the country's health authority said on Thursday.

France will increase its military presence in the eastern Mediterranean, President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday, calling on Turkey to halt oil and gas exploration in disputed waters that has heightened tensions with Greece.

Shortterm home rental company Airbnb Inc's quarterly revenue plunged 67% as fewer people traveled due to the COVID19 pandemic, but its plans for a stock market debut before year's end are still on, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matte...

Venezuela's oppositionrun congress has opened an investigation into an oil spill that continues to pollute palmlined beaches along the South American nation's Caribbean coast, legislator Maria Gabriela Hernandez said on Wednesday.

The British government on Wednesday changed the way it compiles coronavirus deaths, a move that reduced the countrys official death toll by more than 5,000.

National discount department store chain Stein Mart filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday after 112 years in business, and announced that it will close most, if not all, of its 280 stores.

Atletico Madrid take on RB Leipzig in the second Champions League quarter-final.

The five deceased passengers are Sheela, 35, and her two children, Samruddha, 5, and Sparsha, 8, Sheela's sister Kavita, 30, and her daughter Rishita, 3

Twitter Inc rolled out its new longawaited Application Programming Interface (API) software on Wednesday, nearly a month after the social media company delayed the platform's launch following the hack of several highprofile accounts.

The FBI is investigating the shooting of a military helicopter during a training mission this week in northern Virginia, injuring one crew member who was aboard, officials said Wednesday.

A train derailed in eastern Scotland on Wednesday, killing three people, in what Scottish premier Nicola Sturgeon described as an extremely serious incident.

Inspector M Damodharan of 141 battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) shot himself with his service weapon early on Wednesday in the camp located in the old building of Shergari police station.

Hina Khan said that Bollywood looks down upon TV actors. She also said that her Cannes red carpet appearance was unnecessarily criticised, which would not happen to a star-kid.

A woman who survived an explosion that leveled three Baltimore row homes said she smelled gas before hearing a loud boom on Monday morning.