Footage showed the first miner to be rescued, a black blindfold across his eyes, being lifted out of a mine shaft in the morning.

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Authorities are working under the assumption that the case is the more transmissible variant of the virus.

While curfews make intuitive sense, it’s very hard to discern their precise effects on viral transmission. Scientists wonder if they might even increase the spread of the coronavirus.

China is battling its most severe outbreak of the coronavirus in 11 months – more than 2000 cases over the past five weeks.

A young American writer, who has spent the past year in Sydney, is about to return to the US - and he takes some heart from the ambitions of its new President.

The Deomocratic congresswoman has said she experienced “a very close encounter where I thought I was going to die” during the Capitol riots.

It is typical for landmarks to be named after past presidents, but the controversy generated by Donald Trump has raised doubts whether such traditions will be followed in his case.

The Health Minister tested positive to COVID just days after advocating the preventative powers of a syrup said to have been created by the Hindu goddess Kaali to save humanity from the coronavirus.

The vaccination of the top general who had attended daily coronavirus briefings has sparked anger in Spain.

Britain, which has Europe’s deadliest coronavirus outbreak, adopted the policy in order to give as many people as possible a first dose of vaccine quickly but it is not clear if the strategy is a good one.

Police detained over 1,000 people across Russia on Saturday and used force to break up rallies around the country as tens of thousands of protesters demanded the release of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, whose wife was among those detained.

Legendary talk show host Larry King has died. He was 87.

Left intellectuals have reacted with horror and bafflement to the 45th president's decision to commemorate an anti-Trump political theorist.

British ministers are to discuss on Monday further tightening travel restrictions, the BBC reported on Saturday, adding that people arriving in the country could be required to quarantine in hotels.

Everyone lives by faith to a large extent – we can’t empirically test every fact or claim we encounter.

The announcement is a stark acknowledgement of the national security threat posed by American extremists motivated by radical ideology.

Consumer distrust is being fuelled partly by statements from the government, which has taken steps to curb the risk of virus spreading via food imports.

The deal is a boost to the global program known as COVAX, as wealthy nations have snapped up most of the millions of coming shots.

After setting off the machine, Andy Harris was asked to step aside for further screening, then an officer discovered he was carrying the weapon.

“See you around campus,” the 67-year-old Austin said on Friday as he greeted reporters on the steps of the Pentagon.

It currently seems unlikely that Democrats will be able to convince the requisite 17 Republicans to vote to convict the former president of inciting the Capitol riot.

The development, which comes amid a surge of infections in the UAE, poses a direct challenge to the country’s mass testing regime.

Japan had been pinning its hopes on a coronavirus vaccine to help make the Olympics safer but more recently said vaccinations were not a prerequisite for athletes to participate.

China’s top legislative body, the National People’s Congress standing committee, passed the Coast Guard Law, according to state media reports.

Cult followers are regularly unmoved when a promised apocalypse fails to materialise, and simply seek a handy explanation that suits their cause. But what of Donald Trump's millions of cult followers now that Joe Biden is President?

Military prosecutors filed charges against an Indonesian known as Hambali and two other men in June 2017. They’ve been in US custody for 17 years.

As promised, China's government has highlighted Australia's record on war crimes, racial discrimination and indigenous treatment, amid the diplomatic row.

Authorities described the attack that killed at least 32 people in a crowded clothing market as a possible sign of the reactivation of the terror group.

Outpatient services have been suspended at Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Centre and Renji Hospital, also prompting the lockdown of surrounding residential communities.

But the United States, Britain, France and other nuclear powers have not signed the treaty and boycotted talks that led to it.

Japanese Prime Minister Suga and IOC President Bach this week strongly reaffirmed their commitment to the Tokyo Olympic Games going ahead in July this year.

The New York State Bar Association separately has opened an inquiry into whether he should be expelled from that organisation.

Some Cuban and Central American asylum seekers flocked to entry points, many carrying their belongings, hoping to end their waits in dangerous border towns.

An investigation’s findings were reportedly so “scathing” and “blistering” that it would have been virtually impossible for the former astronaut to stay in the role.

America’s leading infectious-diseases expert endured nearly a year of darts and undermining comments from Donald Trump. But his star is rising again.

The new US President is facing pressure from progressive Democrats to aim big, while Republicans are cautioning him not to veer too far from the political centre.

There is no sign of the sculpture in the Oval Office, where Biden's predecessor Donald Trump kept it close at hand.

Facebook's global head of policy said that Trump's ban would remain in place until at least after the board had ruled, which could take up to 90 days.

Britain's Government has rejected EU demands to offer João Vale de Almeida the trappings of statehood, drawing the ire of Brussels.

“We didn’t get into this mess overnight, and it will take months to turn this around,” Biden said.

With governments across the region still reeling from the surprise cuts, officials say the reductions are undermining their efforts to inoculate their citizens.

Representative Carolyn Maloney asked the FBI to review Parler’s financing and its ties to Russia after she noted the company had re-emerged.

Among many changes in the Oval Office, former president Donald Trump's light gold drapes have been replaced with a set that hung during Bill Clinton's presidency.

The carrier had blamed "the dynamic restrictions and requirements implemented by the different state authorities" for its earlier decision to suspend flights.

Exotic's lawyers were so confident their client would receive a pardon from Donald Trump that they hired a limo to pick up Exotic at prison. The pardon never came.

The Iraqi military said two attackers wearing explosive vests blew themselves up among shoppers at a crowded market in Tayaran Square in central Baghdad.

People dressed in black and with their faces covered broke windows and the glass door at the Democratic Party of Oregon business office in Portland, spray-painting an anarchist symbol over the party sign

While some QAnon disciples gave way to doubt as Trump's term ended, others doubled down on blind belief or strained to see new coded messages in the Inauguration Day’s events.

The 46th US President urged Americans to "start afresh" and find a way to look beyond their profound political, racial and religious differences.