Three among the band of critically endangered western lowland gorillas at the wildlife park have shown symptoms of the respiratory virus, such as coughing.

The 11th hour ruling, granted late in the night, was based on evidence that Lisa Montgomery could not understand the government's rationale for her execution.

But security forces are preparing for armed protesters in several states and perhaps a 'million militia march' to disrupt the ceremony.

The new passport enlarges the word "Taiwan" in English and removes "Republic of China".

"I think we've run out of adjectives to describe how serious this is," Irish health chief Paul Reid said.

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The coach of the New England Patriots wrote Trump a letter of support during his 2016 campaign but now says he needs to "remain true to... the country I love".

Despite warnings that a US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan would be like the fall of Saigon, Trump's administration is pushing ahead.

Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, Boris Johnson and Justin Trudeau are among the leaders pledging to save the world's biodiversity, like marine ecosystems.

According to a senior administration official, Donald Trump and Mike Pence "pledged to continue to work on behalf of the country for the remainder of their term". 

Being impeached twice would single out Trump as a uniquely dangerous aberration in US history. But there are potential downsides for Biden's agenda.

Congressional Democrats have begun a push to force US President Donald Trump from office in the final days of his time in the White House.

Parisians have fallen out of love with the two-kilometre promenade and a rescue mission is under way to save it.

Adam Johnson was arrested on Friday night on charges of government property theft, violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.

Alarms placed on people's doors ping neighbourhood guards if they are opened. Security cameras or sticker seals guard at the entrances to homes to enforce quarantine.

Captain Emily Rainey is assigned to a Psychological Operations group that uses information and misinformation to shape the emotions, decision-making and actions of US adversaries.

Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shukry said the establishment of an independent Palestinian state should not threaten Israel’s security.

The long-time Democrat who helped her Republican brother and nephew get elected president died of complications of the coronavirus.

Pope Francis has changed church law to explicitly allow women to do more things during Mass, while continuing to affirm that they cannot be priests.

The video adds a new layer of evidence documenting the brutal violence the pro-Trump mob unleashed during the attempted insurrection.

Melania Trump says that she is “disappointed and disheartened” by the deadly riot, but also lashed out at people she said have used the tragic event to spread “salacious gossip".

Indonesia is banking on vaccinating 180 million people in 15 months to bring the worst COVID outbreak in south-east Asia under control.

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Earth Treaty initiative calls on companies to make a $10 billion commitment to a sustainable "recovery plan".

China has been accused of a cover-up that delayed its initial response, allowing the virus to spread.

The WikiLeaks founder's supporters are seeking to rally supporters across the political spectrum before Joe Biden arrives in the White House.

Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web, wants to help individuals take power back from the tech giants.

Democrat David Cicilline, a leader of the House effort to draft impeachment articles accusing Trump of inciting insurrection, said his group had 200-plus co-sponsors.

She believed January 6 would be "the storm", when QAnon mythology holds that Trump would capture and execute his opponents. The former member of the Air National Guard was the one shot instead.

Four people have been killed in the country's worst snowstorm in decades. Authorities have cleared 500 roads but are worried about COVID-19 vaccines deliveries.

Tens of thousands of farmers are choking Delhi's four main entry points. They want new laws that reshape how farming has been done for decades to be reversed.

At least two police departments and two fire departments have reported to federal authorities allegations that some of their members may have been present when the mob broke into the Capitol.

Some 74 million people voted for a man who no longer has a place on Facebook or Twitter, and a sizeable proportion of them will now look elsewhere.

After all, the president had responded to a right-wing plot to kidnap a governor last year with the comment: “Maybe it was a problem. Maybe it wasn't.”

Iranian officials are pressing South Korea to release some $9 billion tied up in South Korean banks. The country says it needs the funds for COVID-19 vaccines.

It differs from highly infectious variants first found in Britain and South Africa that have driven a surge in cases, the Japanese government said.

Trump is confident Vice-President Mike Pence and members of his cabinet won’t attempt to remove him under the 25th Amendment, sources say.

In a video message, the former Republican California governor warns of the dire consequences of misleading people and says Trump will go down in history as the worst President ever.

The number of confirmed deaths in Britain has passed 80,000, the government has reported.

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A major technical fault in Pakistan's power generation and distribution system caused a massive power outage that plunged the country into darkness.

Indonesian authorities said they had also located the black boxes belonging to the Boeing 737-500 which crashed into the Java Sea.

The documents quote the President as saying he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos' by flooding the United States with cocaine”.

Two men – one wearing a horned, fur hat and the other carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern – have been charged, the latest arrests in the Capitol riot mayhem that left five people dead.

Of all the egregious words to have fallen from the lips of Donald Trump or poured from his tweeting fingers during his presidency, these must surely be the worst.

The bank said it was treating the matter with “the highest priority, and acting with urgency”, as it investigates the breach.

The emergency law will allow the Swedish government, which has long shunned lockdowns and face masks, to introduce restrictions on gatherings and to fine individuals for breaking coronavirus rules.

The pro-independence SNP has cast Brexit as "an unnecessary act of economic vandalism, which has been inflicted against Scotland's will".

The Queen and her husband, Prince Philip, have received vaccinations against COVID-19, Buckingham Palace said on Saturday.

It is one of at least three phone calls where Trump sought help from high-level Georgia officials in subverting the election.