When scientists first unearthed fossils of a horned dinosaur called Centrosaurus in the badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park in Canada's Alberta Province in 198

As a young girl growing up in northern Zimbabwe's mining community of Mashonaland, Beatrice Savadye watched as her friends were forced into child marriages and

A worker disinfects a public school in Brasilia, Brazil, July 30, 2020. (Photo by Lucio Tavora/Xinhua)
Brazil on Tuesday marked another grim milestone of the CO

Shops on Fifth Avenue are still closed on Monday as New York marks 100 days since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 appeared. On Monday, New York entered Pha

Damaged buildings are seen after the explosion at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, Aug. 4, 2020. The two huge explosions that rocked Lebanon's capital Beirut on Tue

Smoke rises from an explosion site at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, Aug. 4, 2020. The two huge explosions that rocked Lebanon's capital Beirut on Tuesday left do

Italy inaugurates a sleek new bridge in Genoa on Monday, though relatives of the 43 people killed when the old viaduct collapsed say the pomp and ceremony risk

The Holocaust Memorial is seen at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, California on Sunday. Photo: AFPEuropean Union (EU) chief Ursul

A marble lion is seen with a face mask in front of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue in New York, the United States, July 8, 2020. Photo: Xinhua
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US President Donald Trump wears a mask as he visits Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland on July 25, 2020. Photo: VCG

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Isaias roared closer to the Florida coast Sunday, threatening to bring strong winds, flash flooding and storm surges but no longer expected to regain hurricane

A US Marines Landing Craft Air Cushion hovercraft participates in a landing exercise as part of the Philipines-U.S. Balikatan 2019 in Zambales Province, the Phi

Mexican security forces on Sunday captured Jose Antonio Yepez, a notorious drug gang leader and fuel thief blamed for fanning a sharp surge in violence that has

Running shoes are placed at a makeshift memorial for victims near the finish line of the Boston Marathon bombings at the intersection of Newbury Street and Dart

A health worker collects sample for COVID-19 test from a prisoner tied with ropes at a hospital in Patna, capital of the eastern Indian state of Bihar on Aug. 2

Like many indigenous Australians, Pat Dudgeon grew up in the shadow of a mountain range that made her feel inferior and "conquered" on her own traditional lands

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reacts during a budget committee session of the upper house at parliament on Thursday in Tokyo. Photo: AFPTokyo would welcome

A Syrian woman, who was stranded following a border closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, waits with a child to cross into Iraqi Kurdistan from the Syrian side

Ten people died on Saturday when a crane collapsed, trapping them underneath, at a state-run shipyard in the southern Indian city of Visakhapatnam, a senior pol

Health workers collect COVID-19 test samples from people at a health centre in Hyderabad, India, on July 29, 2020. India's COVID-19 tally crossed the 1.5 millio

Medical workers collect a swab sample from a boy for COVID-19 test in Surabaya, Indonesia, July 20, 2020. (Photo by Kurniawan/Xinhua)
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A man gets registered before taking COVID-19 test at a mobile test site in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, June 16, 2020.
Kazakhstan's Ministry of Healthcare reported

A pedestrian wearing a face mask walks past the New York State Department of Labor office in the Brooklyn borough of New York, the United States, on May 8, 2020

A woman wearing a face mask walks past a billboard reading "Use face mask, protect yourself and others" in Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 2, 2020. Brazil's southeast s

A worker disinfects a public school in Brasilia, Brazil, July 30, 2020. Brazil on Thursday reported a daily increase of 1,129 in COVID-19 deaths, taking the nat