More than 280 toddlers were diagnosed with COVID-19 in the Indonesian capital on one day alone last week.

Voters largely stayed away from the ballot box - the abstention rate is estimated at 65.7 per cent.

The revelation adds years to the time they knew each other and was gleaned from more than 200 interviews as well as scouring court documents.

The death toll has risen to nine with more than 150 people still missing as questions swirled about the tower’s structural integrity.

The papers included discussion about the potential Russian reaction to the British warship HMS Defender’s travel through waters off the Crimean coast last week, the BBC said.

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A spokesman says the US is responding to an “ongoing series of attacks by Iran-backed groups targeting US interests”.

Danielle Anderson’s career has taken her all over the world, including to the Chinese research lab now at the centre of attention due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

The rare public comment on Kim’s health comes after foreign analysts noted that the autocratic leader appeared to have lost a noticeable amount of weight.

A San Francisco woman has successfully defended her colourful, bulbous-shaped house and its elaborate homage to The Flintstones family.

The journalist, arrested on suspicion of foreign collusion to endanger national security, was believed to be leaving for Britain when he was arrested.

Trump shunned the world. China angered it. Now Beijing and Washington are in a race to gain the greatest diplomatic clout.

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The US President has been forced to walk back his demands after he “understandably upset some Republicans”.

The Communist Party of China is 100. What are the benefits of membership? And who calls the shots?

The two nations are right now locked in open rivalry for world domination - but for many years, they tried to be allies.

Families frustrated with the slow pace of recovery efforts have demanded they be allowed to go to the scene and attempt a collective shout to find survivors.

UNESCO took the rare step this week of recommending Venice be placed on its list of World Heritage in Danger sites.

Video footage shows one police officer kneeling on the man’s neck for several minutes.

Europeans see Western animals as standard, disparaging Australian wildlife, says museum chief.

Matt Hancock resigned after pictures and video emerged showing him flouting social distancing rules.

Made in China by American company Innova, the pregnancy test-style kits are simple to use and are even being handed out on street corners.

Five people are dead after a hot air balloon crashed into a power line in Albuquerque.

The oceanfront condominium building that collapsed near Miami had “major structural damage” to a concrete slab below its pool deck that needed to be extensively repaired, according to a 2018 engineering report on the building.

As Harry and William prepare to reunite for the unveiling of the statue of Diana at Kensington Palace on Thursday, emotions are still running high.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani denied his government would fall within six months. “There have been many such predictions and they have all proven false.”

The family of Tzvi and Itty Ainsworth, who were renting an apartment in the building, are praying for a miracle after 48 hours without any sign of the couple.

Medecines Sans Frontiers said three aid workers “paid for their work with their lives in the latest attack on humanitarian workers in war-torn Tigray.

The day after she pleaded in court to be released from her court-mandated guardianship orders, the singer took to Instagram to address fans directly.

The World Health Organisation’s director of health emergencies says it’s scientifically possible but not proven that Delta can be transmitted within seconds.

The US government’s “X Files” have been released in a paper that says there’s not enough information to explain strange aerial encounters.

A Minnesota judge has sentenced former police officer Derek Chauvin to 22½ years in prison for the murder of George Floyd during an arrest last year.

An indictment of the Trump Organisation could mark the first criminal charges to emerge from an investigation by the Manhattan district attorney into Donald Trump and his business dealings.

The Tokyo Games will be a candidate for the most unpopular Olympics in history. This is how its people feel.

Missionary Richard Daschbach has admitted to sexually abusing countless young girls in an East Timorese orphanage – yet locals still support him.

Videos posted on social media showed pedestrians surrounding the attacker and holding him at bay after three people were stabbed to death in the southern city of Wuerzburg.

The death toll has climbed to four, according to local media, with rescuers spending the night listening for signs of life beneath the rubble.

Matt Hancock apologised for breaching coronavirus restrictions after a newspaper ran pictures of him embracing and kissing a woman with whom he allegedly had an affair.

Country leaders defend LGBT rights after Hungary approved a law they say reinforces prejudice and homophobia.

“It should make us worry,” said evolutionary biologist David Enard. “What is going on right now might be going on for generations and generations.”

A new mutation of the coronavirus Delta variant has been in the headlines. What is it, where has it been found and is it reason for concern?

The fragments of a skull and a lower jaw with teeth are 120,000 to 140,000 years old and could force a rethink of parts of the human family tree.

Marian Lopez thought an earthquake might have hit their home of 22 years. Alfredo thought maybe something had exploded at the hotel next door.

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A researcher at Florida International University said the building was constructed on reclaimed wetlands and was determined to be unstable a year ago.

Gitanas Nauseda, Lithuania’s president, told reporters in Brussels the idea was like “trying to engage the bear to keep a pot of honey safe”.

Winston Marshall took a break from the band in March after sparking a social media storm by tweeting admiration for a book by right-wing writer-activist Andy Ngo.

Emperor Naruhito’s warning will embarrass the government and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), but it has come too late to cause a change of heart among organisers.

A wing of a 12-storey beachfront apartment building collapsed in a town outside Miami early on Thursday morning, with at least one person dead and 99 still unaccounted for, officials said.

The remains were found at a now-defunct Catholic residential school, just weeks after a similar discovery rocked the country.