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A thermometer at Death Valley's Furnace Creek in the Southern California desert has soared to 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4 Celsius), the highest global temperature in more than a century, the U.S. National Weather Service said.

After becoming dean of the University of Illinois business school in 2015, Jeffrey Brown worried that politics or a virus would choke off a major source of revenue for his school: Chinese graduate students.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 struck off the coast of southern Greece Monday morning, Greeces Institute of Geodynamics said. No damage or injuries were immediately reported.

Geoff Woolf gave his sons a love for literature. When he got sick with COVID19, they turned to books to help him and others.

Six correctional officers were taken to hospitals to be treated for injuries sustained in an inmate attack at a prison in California, the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said.

Poland is monitoring the situation at its border with Belarus, Deputy Defence Minister Wojciech Skurkiewicz said on Monday.

A judge in Mexico's Jalisco state who rejected prosecutors' calls for harsher charges against a police official accused of sexually abusing a 10yearold girl has been suspended after widespread outrage over the case.

Flash floods have ravaged swaths of Sudan for weeks, leaving at least 60 people dead and destroying thousands of homes since late July, authorities and the U.N. humanitarian agency said Sunday.

The UAE and Israeli foreign ministers held their first publiclyacknowledged call on Sunday after the Gulf state opened telephone lines to Israel as part of a normalisation of ties.

For decades, scientists have measured the moon’s retreat by firing a laser at light-reflecting panels that were left on the lunar surface, and then timing the light’s round trip. But the moon’s five retroreflectors are old, and they’re now much less effic...

New Zealand on Sunday reported 13 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus for the last 24 hours, as the country’s first outbreak in months continues to grow.

Israeli leaders on Saturday condemned the U.N. Security Council's decision not to renew a U.N. arms embargo on Iran, saying the decision would encourage Iranian aggression in the Middle East.

The number of new COVID19 infections in Turkey hit its highest level in 45 days on Saturday, the country's health minister said as he announced 1,256 new cases.

Pope Francis on Saturday urged Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to continue talks to resolve their yearslong dispute over a massive dam Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile that has led to sharp regional tensions and fears of military conflict.

The number of migrants reaching Italy by sea shot up from the previous 12month period, but in contrast to recent years, the majority of the arrivals didnt need rescue and made it to shore by themselves.

Plans are back on to beam twin columns of light into the Manhattan sky to represent the World Trade Center during next month's anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.