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As nearly 100 employees went back to work in the office of a Dubai media company, managers found a way to avoid awkwardness around social distancing colourcoded bracelets indicating how staff want to be greeted.

The number of foreigners staying in Spanish hotels rose in July to over 1.1 million after the country came out of one of Europe's strictest coronavirus lockdowns in late June, but was still only about onesixth of last year's levels, data showed on Monday.

Democrats and Republicans chose Wisconsin and North Carolina, two battleground states that will help decide the Nov. 3 presidential election, to host their nominating conventions before the coronavirus forced them to scale back the events.

China's prime minister pledged on Monday to share more water management data from its portion of the Mekong River with its neighbours in Southeast Asia after U.S. criticism that it was "hoarding" water and hurting livelihoods downstream.

Austrian authorities say a suspect has been arrested after an assault on the head of the Jewish community in Graz, the country's secondbiggest city.

Canada's main opposition Conservative Party on Monday elected Erin O'Toole, a former cabinet minister and armed forces veteran, to be its new leader and the primary challenger to Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Republicans will make their case this week that the United States' economic and political future depends on the reelection of Donald Trump at a party convention designed to highlight his prepandemic record as president and sow doubt about opponent Joe Bid...

Some Houston residents say they endured difficult, often hazardous living conditions while waiting months, even years for help from the city to fix flooddamaged homes after Hurricane Harvey.

At the small apartment where 4yearold LeGend Taliferro was shot dead in his sleep, the sliding glass door is riddled with bullet holes. Glass is still strewn on the patio outside, the shards crunching under the feet of Attorney General William Barr and Po...

Store windows in the fivestorey Huqiu Wedding Dress Mall in the Chinese city of Suzhou gleam with the reflection from rows and rows of elaborate gowns to entice potential buyers.

U.S. President Donald Trump's top homeland security official said on Sunday that his department does not have the authority to send law enforcement to polling sites during the November election despite Trump's suggestion that federal officers could be dep...

Coastal residents in lowlying areas of Louisiana and Cuba were evacuating on Sunday, while roads turned to rivers in Haiti's capital city, as twin hurricanes threatened the Caribbean and U.S. Gulf Coast.

The Trump administrations secondhighest ranking diplomat will travel to Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine and Austria this week for talks on arms control and other matters, including allegations of Russian election meddling and the crisis in Belarus after disput...

Several hundred firefighters battled a massive fire at a large warehouse in north Philadelphia early Sunday, and one firefighter was reported injured.

Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin has assumed the leadership of her own party eight months after taking the top job in the Nordic nation in December, when she became the worlds youngest serving head of government at 34.

In the study, published in the journal eLife, the scientists developed a new X-ray technique which enables high resolution and three-dimensional imaging of lung tissues infected with the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.