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The list released Wednesday identifies the words that proved most challenging for newsreaders and people on television to pronounce this year.

U.S. drugmaker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech said on Wednesday that documents related to their development of a COVID19 vaccine had been "unlawfully accessed" in a cyberattack on Europe's medicines regulator.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday vowed to intervene in a longshot lawsuit by the state of Texas filed at the U.S. Supreme Court trying to throw out the voting results in four states he lost to Presidentelect Joe Biden as he seeks to undo the outcome of...

Britain's medical regulator will examine all the data from trials of the COVID19 vaccine developed by Oxford and AstraZeneca, including which dosing regimen is best to use, the regulator's chief executive said on Wednesday.

Indonesians streamed into polling stations to vote in regional elections on Wednesday, with health experts warning of the risk of new coronavirus clusters emerging across the archipelago after authorities ignored calls to postpone the vote again.

France's foreign minister told his Turkish counterpart on Tuesday that a renewed constructive relationship with the European Union could only happen if Ankara clarified its position on several subjects.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday he'll wait his turn for the COVID19 vaccine, as officials detailed a plan that prioritizes health care workers and the elderly to receive the first doses of the vaccines.

AstraZeneca and Oxford University have more work to do to confirm whether their COVID-19 vaccine can be 90% effective, peer-reviewed data published in The Lancet showed on Tuesday, potentially slowing its eventual rollout in the fight against the pandemic...

The Philippines has received 1.4 billion pesos ($29 million) worth of military equipment from the United States, its defence minister said on Tuesday, part of efforts to bolster the country's external defence and counter terrorism capabilities.

Former All Blacks captain Richie McCaw and France star Jessy Trmoulire have been voted the mens and womens rugby players of the past decade.

Turkey will not bow to threats in its dispute with Greece and Cyprus over maritime claims in the eastern Mediterranean, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday as European Union foreign ministers met in Brussels to discuss the issue.

Asian equities recorded their biggest foreign inflow in at least 12 years in November, data showed, as promising developments related to COVID19 vaccines bolstered expectations of a faster regional recovery from the pandemic.

A sizeable minority of people believe conspiracy theories about the coronavirus and COVID19 vaccines, some experts have warned, just as countries prepare to launch mass inoculations to get the pandemic under control.

The chief adviser for U.S. efforts to develop a coronavirus vaccine said on Sunday he planned to meet with Presidentelect Joe Biden's team this week to discuss the program before the expected first round of vaccinations this month.

Former Hong Kong lawmaker Ted Hui said on Sunday his local bank accounts appeared to have been frozen after he said he would seek exile in Britain to continue his prodemocratic activities.

Tuqqa Abdullah and her Iraqi family have wandered from one displaced people's camp to the next in the past three years, buying time and hoping they will one day be able to go home.