EU and UK trade talks inched onwards under renewed pressure Monday as transport chaos triggered by the emergence of a more contagious variant of the coronavirus

A woman wearing a face mask walks on a street in Brasilia, Brazil, Dec. 16, 2020. (Photo by Lucio Tavora/Xinhua)
Brazil's southeast state of Sao Paulo, the epic

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Due to pandemic prevention reasons, the Chinese Visa Application Service Center in London suspends its operations from Tuesday: the Chin

Silicon Valley is working behind the scenes to secure senior roles for tech allies in lesser-known but still vital parts of president-elect Joe Biden's administ

In the US last week, someone died from COVID-19 every 33 seconds.

The disease claimed more than 18,000 lives in the seven days ending on Sunday, up 6.7 percent

The White House Photo: Xinhua

US lawmakers on Monday approved a $900 billion relief package for the world's biggest economy that will provide a long-sought b

Health workers perform COVID-19 tests at a drive-through testing center at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia on Sunday. Sydney was isolated from the rest of Aust

Photo taken on July 29, 2020 shows the construction site of the China-Laos Railway in northern Laos. (Photo by Pan Longzhu/Xinhua)

With the cast of the last c

The New Zealand man who murdered British backpacker Grace Millane committed violent sex crimes against two other women, a court revealed Tuesday, as the killer

People wait to receive COVID-19 tests in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand, on Dec. 22, 2020. (Xinhua/Rachen Sageamsak)

COVID-19 cases continued to rise in Thai

Photo taken on Dec. 21, 2020 shows Eurostar trains at empty St. Pancras International Station in London, Britain. Eurostar announced it was canceling trains bet

Lebanon's parliament Monday approved a bill that suspends banking secrecy laws for one year to allow for a forensic audit of the central bank, a key demand of i

A "stop covid" sign is seen during the Proryv extreme sports festival in Moscow, Russia, Dec. 5, 2020. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr/Xinhua)


A total

People walk around under the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, the United States, Dec. 21, 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Ying)

The Wadsworth Laboratory in Albany has begun agg

Rosemary DiCarlo (front), United Nations undersecretary-general for political and peacebuilding affairs, addresses a Security Council meeting on the situation i

Tunisia arrested a dozen people including its environment minister Monday in a scandal over hundreds of containers of household waste shipped from Italy to the

Israeli lawmakers on Tuesday rejected a bill to give the government more time to pass a budget, raising the likelihood that parliament will dissolve and force a

When Jesus strode through the ancient Jewish temple in Jerusalem, his feet met hewn-stone, earth-tone tiles that were geometric in design and cool, dappled and

The White House is seen in Washington D.C., the United States, on May 21, 2020.Photo:Xinhua


US House of Representatives passed a 900-billion-USD COVID-19 re

A vendor wearing a face mask sells vegetables and fruits at a market in Bogota, Colombia, March 18, 2020. (Photo by Jhon Paz/Xinhua)
Colombia plans to launch a

US President-elect Joe Biden Photo: AFP
US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine during a televised event in hi

Medical workers work at a drive-through COVID-19 testing site in Dallas, Texas, the United States, March 21, 2020.(Photo: Xinhua)

Mayor of the US city of Hous

A pedestrian walks on Times Square in New York, the United States, Dec. 16, 2020. A snow storm hit New York on Wednesday. (Xinhua/Wang Ying)

The number of COV

US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks during a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, the United States, November 17. Photo: Xinhua
US

Boeing 737 Max airplanes sit parked at the company's production facility in Renton, Washington DC, the US on November 18. Photo: VCG

Boeing's 737 MAX is set t