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China stopped classifying homosexuality as a mental illness in 2001, but its mostly closeted LGBT population still encounters discrimination and lacks legal safeguards.

Prime Minister Erna Solberg told Norwegian children on Thursday she was confident a vaccine against the novel coronavirus will be found and that the disease could become one of the many diseases kids are vaccinated against.

The White House Coronavirus Task Force coordinator, Dr. Deborah Birx, on Wednesday dismissed the notion that the Trump administration was considering a strategy of allowing Americans to become infected with coronavirus in order to reach "herd immunity."

South Korea reported its first drop below 200 new coronavirus cases in more than two weeks on Thursday, but the country's strained hospitals were treating more seriously ill patients after the prolonged recent surge in infections.

After the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy famously compared his 1,000day presidency to Camelot, a popular Broadway musical about the legend of King Arthur crafting a wistful shorthand for the Kennedy tenure, and by ext...

Power crews were working to restore electricity across stormdevastated Louisiana, road crews were clearing debris and thousands of tarps were being distributed to patch over wrecked roofs. But Gov. John Bel Edwards cautioned his state's residents Wednesda...

A second Trump administration appointee has been ousted at the Food and Drug Administration in the wake of the agency's botched announcement about an experimental therapy for COVID19, which medical experts said damaged the health regulator's credibility w...

Relatives of a man fatally shot by Chicago police after gunshots were fired at an unmarked police car don't believe he fired those shots and want to see police body camera footage of the incident.

Qatar's ruler Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad alThani told White House adviser Jared Kushner on Wednesday that Doha supports a twostate solution, with East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state, to end the conflict with Israel, his cabinet said.

Antilockdown protesters and facemask refusers can be called "Covidiots", German prosecutors said on Wednesday, dismissing legal complaints against Social Democrat coleader Saskia Esken who used the term on Twitter.

Millions of Americans are counting on a COVID-19 vaccine to curb the global pandemic and return life to normal.

The Nobel laureates, winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Medicine and Physics, stressed the importance of elected leaders making decisions based on science, particularly during a global pandemic.

Serbian officials have denied that Serbia and its president have interfered in Montenegros parliamentary election that was narrowly won by proBelgrade and proRussian political groupings.

Mali's ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita was hospitalised in the capital Bamako on Tuesday evening for an overdue checkup with his doctor, a source said, six days after he was released from detention by the country's new military leadership.

Hindered by frayed ties with Europe, limited leverage and doubts about President Donald Trump's devotion to democracy in Belarus, the United States is gingerly trying to nudge the former Soviet state toward new elections without provoking Russia.

Pope Francis held his first weekly general audience in public in six months on Wednesday, smiling and chatting with some of the crowd as they pressed forward to greet him.