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German police say French urban climber Alain Robert faces a criminal investigation and fine after scaling one of Frankfurt's tallest buildings Thursday.

The University of Cambridge said Thursday that it will kick all fossil fuel investments out of its portfolio within the next decade as part of a plan to end the emissions of greenhouse gases it's responsible for by 2038.

Madrid will carry out a national order restricting mobility in large Spanish cities with rapid virus spread but its regional president announced Thursday she will fight the Spanish governments resolution in the courts because she deems it arbitrary.

Two people were killed and 18 others were hurt in a clash among migrants in the northwestern part of the country, Bosnian police said Thursday.

A prominent Belarus opposition figure and an imprisoned Iranian human rights lawyer on Thursday were awarded the Right Livelihood Award, sometimes referred to as the Alternative Nobel, together with activists from Nicaragua and the United States.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam cheered the city's "return to stability" during China national day celebrations on Thursday, as hundreds of police in riot gear patrolled the route of a banned antigovernment march by prodemocracy activists.

In the space of a few minutes, on a prerecorded video filmed thousands of miles from where it was shown, the tech-savvy president of El Salvador captured the two strikingly different sides of this years unprecedented and virtual gathering of world leade...

By a sweeping bipartisan vote Wednesday, the Senate sent President Trump a bill to fund the government through Dec. 11, averting the possibility of a government shutdown when the new fiscal year starts Thursday.

New York City restaurants welcomed patrons back inside for the first time in months on Wednesday as authorities scrambled to contain COVID19 outbreaks in some neighborhoods and negotiators in Washington wrangled over a coronavirus relief package.

Investigators have arrested and charged a man in connection with the shooting of two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies earlier this month as they sat in a squad car, authorities said Wednesday.

All states allow some form of early voting, be it by casting votes in person at polling places, voting by mail, or both.

VIRUS-OUTBREAK-RESTAURANTS-SALES Chart. The National Restaurant Association says nearly 100,000 U.S. restaurants have shut their doors since the pandemic began. Monthly U.S. restaurant sales hit their lowest point in April, when they plunged to $30 billi...

A study has concluded that the founding director of the Berlin International Film Festival made a not insignificant contribution to the German film system under Nazi rule and later covered up his role, festival organizers said Wednesday.

Timothy Ray Brown, who made history as the Berlin patient, the first person known to be cured of HIV infection, has died. He was 54.

An Indian court has acquitted all 32 people who had been accused of crimes in a 1992 attack and demolition of a 16th century mosque that sparked HinduMuslim violence leaving some 2,000 people dead.