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Residents of Germany's capital Berlin can do their bit to ensure the city's trees get enough water during the hot summer months as part of a new neighbourhood initiative.

The White House Rose Garden has been spruced up in time for its moment in the campaign spotlight.

China has approved human testing for a potential coronavirus vaccine cultivated within insect cells, local government in the southwestern city of Chengdu said on Saturday.

Authorities in Belarus have blocked an array of news media websites reporting on the country shaken by two weeks of protests against authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko.

Their final breaths are tormented. Rublas Ruiz has seen too many of them the last gasps of 17 men and women who died of the coronavirus.

The U.N. nuclear watchdog's chief Rafael Grossi will make his first trip to Tehran in that role on Monday to pressure Iran to grant inspectors access to two suspected former atomic sites after a monthslong standoff, he said on Saturday.

Prosecutors in the northern state of Para said the Air Force plane used to transport the group to Brasilia was originally deployed to fight environmental crimes in the Amazon region.

Western Europe has been enduring the kind of infection levels not seen in many months, particularly in Germany, France, Spain and Italy -- sparking fears of a full-fledged second wave.

Kim's regime faces several difficult issues to tackle this summer. It's trying to clean up parts of the country after deadly flooding while also keeping the coronavirus pandemic at bay. North Korea's economy is also believed to be in poor shape.

Australia's second most populous state, Victoria, reported 13 new coronavirus deaths in the 24 hours to Saturday morning, authorities said, while new infections in the hotspot state remained below 200 for the second consecutive day.

A former Dallas police officer has admitted that he surfed child pornography on police computers.

During the first four months of Europes coronavirus outbreak, the Mediterranean island nation of Malta recorded just 673 infections. By midJuly, it had all but eliminated COVID19 with only three active cases.

The Los Angeles city attorney has filed dozens of criminal charges alleging fire code and safety violations against the owner of a building that exploded in the city's downtown and injured 12 firefighters, officials announced Friday.

As many as 215,000 more people than usual died in the U.S. during the first seven months of 2020, suggesting that the number of lives lost to the coronavirus is significantly higher than the official toll. And half the dead were people of color Blacks, H...

Slovakias foreign minister on Friday condemned the violent treatment of a Slovak citizen by police officers at a Belgian airport and demanded a thorough investigation. The man, who was in distress, later died.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced the discovery of a large natural gas reserves off the Black Sea coast, days after he promised good news that would usher in a new era for the energy dependent country.