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British police said Wednesday that three historically and religiously important bronze sculptures are being returned from the U.K. to a temple in India from which they were stolen more than 40 years ago.

About 12 million people in South Africa have probably been infected with the coronavirus, but that startlingly high number has not caused a similarly high death rate and might indicate a widespread level of immunity, the country's minister of health says.

As fire crews continued to battle deadly wildfires sweeping the western United States, thousands of evacuees in Oregon and other states faced a daily struggle while scientists in Europe tracked the smoke on Wednesday as it spread on an intercontinental sc...

A Tennessee law requiring doctors to inform women that druginduced abortions may be reversed is critical for women who may change their minds halfway through the procedure, the state's top legal chief said.

DNA tests on a knife and other evidence must be performed in the case of a Tennessee death row inmate facing execution in December for the stabbing deaths of a woman and her daughter 33 years ago, a judge ruled Wednesday.

A drug company says that partial results from a study testing an antibody drug give hints that it may help mild to moderately ill COVID-19 patients from needing to be hospitalized, a goal no current coronavirus medicine has been able to meet.

West African leaders have emphasized that Malis junta should nominate civilian transitional leaders within days to lead the nation toward elections, Ghanas president said following a regional summit.

A top European Union official strongly denounced the stigmatization of LGBT people by authorities in Poland, saying on Wednesday that LGBTfree zones that have been declared in parts of the country have no place in the EU.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday will consider whether Harvard University discriminates against AsianAmerican applicants in a closelywatched case that could impact whether U.S. colleges can use race as a factor in admissions.

The Global Times — a nationalist state-run tabloid — has published a series of articles branding him an "anti-China rioter" and portraying him as the face of alleged anti-Chinese racism in Australia.

A UNled aviation task force aims to make a recommendation by late October on the use of COVID19 testing to reduce long quarantine requirements that have decimated air travel, two sources said, following a meeting of the group on Tuesday.

Seven deaths related to COVID19 have been tied to an Aug. 7 wedding and celebration that took place in the vacation town of Millinocket in central Maine, local media reported on Tuesday.

Mali's military coup leaders must hand over power to a civilian transitional government immediately, the chairman of the West African regional bloc said on Tuesday, as a deadline expired for the ruling junta to appoint interim leaders.

Neighbouring Lithuania violated international law when it recognised opposition politician Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya as Belarusian leader on Sept. 10, Belarus' upper house of parliament said in a statement on Tuesday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Interior Minister Horst Seehofer have agreed to take in around an additional 1,500 migrants from the Greek islands after a fire left thousands homeless, German government and coalition sources said.

Australia's northern tropical rivers are reknowned for being crocodileinfested, so the appearance of migrating humpback whales in one waterway has baffled marine scientists, who assume they simply took a wrong turn and got stuck.