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Mass testing of Russia's first potential COVID19 vaccine to get domestic regulatory approval will involve more than 40,000 people and will be overseen by a foreign research body when it starts next week, backers of the project said on Thursday.

Just a few months after Epe Fish Market was under lockdown to stem the spread of the new coronavirus, vendors at the site in the southern Nigerian state of Lagos are back buying, selling and trading animals.

German authorities said Thursday that a 30yearold man accused of deliberately driving his car into other vehicles along a major Berlin highway wasn't previously on the security services' radar.

The presence of Chinese bombers in the disputed Paracel islands in the South China Sea "jeopardises peace" in the region, Vietnam's foreign ministry spokeswoman said on Thursday.

Chris Byrne and Khadijah E. Olonade worked hard to get into medical school, but the computer said no.

Scientists said high levels of cytokines increased inflammation, and created a feedback loop in which immune cells produced more of these molecules in a proce.

In the winter of 1964, Makhluf Abu Kassem was born in this agricultural community newly created at the far end of Egypts Fayoum oasis. His parents were among the villages first settlers, moving here three years earlier from the Nile Valley to carve out a...

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is in a serious condition in a Siberian hospital after suffering severe symptoms of what his spokeswoman on Thursday said she believed was a deliberate poisoning.

Former U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday assailed his successor, Donald Trump, as deeply unfit for the office he occupies and argued that voting for his former No. 2, Joe Biden, was necessary to ensure the survival of American democracy.

U.S. Senator Kamala Harris received the Democratic Party's nod to be Joe Biden's vice presidential running mate at its national convention on Wednesday, becoming the first Black woman and AsianAmerican on a major U.S. presidential ticket.

The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID19, the illness caused by the virus.

The third night of the Democratic National Convention features a lineup of highwattage political star power: former President Barack Obama, 2016 presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and 2020 vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

At least 14 people drowned and more appeared to be missing after a packed sailboat sank in a channel between mainland Haiti and an outlying island Wednesday, a Haitian official said.

Michigan has reached a $600 million agreement to compensate Flint residents whose health was damaged by lead-tainted drinking water after the city heeded state regulators advice not to treat it properly, multiple news outlets reported Wednesday.

A Syrian refugee in Germany spoke of his relief after being able to testify Wednesday at the trial of two exmembers of Syria's secret police who are accused of crimes against humanity, the first highprofile case worldwide against former officials during t...

In an interview with The Associated Press, Evans said the church voted last Sunday to apologize to the family and create a memorial fund in Alexanders honor to provide funeral flowers and food — something Alexander often helped with.