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‘I haven’t done it before because I’ve been in a relationship,’ says actor

It comes just a short while after a Trump tweet that appeared to admit, for the first time, Joe Biden’s victory

The top U.N. official for Libya says its rival sides have wrapped up a week of talks in Tunisia without agreeing on a transitional governmen...

All care homes will be able to allow visits for Christmas, Matt Hancock says, amid growing criticism of delays in introducing safety measure...

U.S. retailer Walmart is selling 85% of its stake in its wholly owned Japanese supermarket subsidiary Seiyu, while retaining a 15% stake

Georgia’s secretary of state ordered recounting of the votes as the difference was 0.3 per cent 

One laboratory to be based in Leamington Spa and another in a to-be-decided location in Scotland

Pharmaceutical company Janssen starts phase 3 tests with 6,000 volunteers

Kindred says the respite provided by schools, which reopened in August, is preventing a crisis in families where a child has high care needs

UK is setting up ‘mega labs’ to double up the production of vaccines

A fast-strengthening Hurricane Iota is sweeping over the western Caribbean and predicted to become a very dangerous Category 4 storm as it h...

President-elect Joe Biden’s scientific advisers plan to meet with vaccine makers in coming days even as a stalled presidential transit...

Who is the president of Peru

Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, a career diplomat who became one of the country’s most prominent faces to the outside world durin...

Officials say an Alaska Airlines jetliner struck a brown bear while landing early Saturday evening, killing the animal and causing damage to...

President Donald Trump’s campaign is withdrawing a central part of its lawsuit seeking to stop the certification of the election results in...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration is ordering high schools and colleges to stop in-person classes, closing restaurants to indoor dining...

City authorities say a fire in a crowded residential district in Hong Kong has “caused a number of deaths and injuries."

Shares have started out the week on a strong footing after the Standard & Poors 500 hit a record high on Friday

Japan has reported its economy grew at an annual rate of 21.4% in the July-September quarter as some business activity recovered from the sh...

SpaceX's second crew includes two military officers who played college football, a former space shuttle flight controller and a longtime Sco...

There is much as stake, and Johnson will be keen to get rid of the Brexit albatross and put his administration and the country back in track...

Barack Obama has called on Donald Trump to concede the election, urging him to put the good of of the country above his own ego and self int...

It’s sartorial choices and chess matches across the board in Netflix’s latest drama – and both merge beautifully, writes Danielle Braff