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A Swiss team working to take a solarpowered plane to the edge of space says it has performed the first jump and free fall from an electric aircraft.

A wave of attacks across Afghanistan on Tuesday left at least 12 dead and wounded scores, officials said, including a Taliban truck bombing in the country's north that targeted a commando base for Afghan forces.

Hong Kong will ease some coronavirus measures from Aug. 28, allowing venues like cinemas and beauty parlours to reopen and restaurants to extend dining hours, authorities said on Tuesday, while cautioning against complacency.

Nerren from the International House of Prayer Ministries was arrested in Bagdogra, West Bengal last October on charges of travelling with USD 40,000 of undeclared currency.

South Korea on Tuesday ordered most schools in Seoul and surrounding areas to close and move classes back online, the latest in a series of precautionary measures aimed at heading off a resurgence in coronavirus cases.

The Australian state at the centre of the country's coronavirus second wave on Tuesday reported 148 new COVID19 cases, more than the previous day but well down from peak levels, and eight deaths.

More drylightning storms hit California on Monday after sparking 625 fires last week as authorities warned the state was trapped in a "megafire era" triggered by climate change.

The State Department did not immediately respond on Monday to a request for comment about whether Pompeo’s appearance violated the cabled instruction.

California braced for more lightning storms that could spark dozens of new blazes after over 600 wildfires in the last week burned an area three times the size of Los Angeles.

President Donald Trump adopted a grim tone in remarks to Republicans who formally backed his bid for a second term on Monday, warning without evidence that he could face a "rigged election" in November.

Fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and triggered a mass exodus, the Crescent City is bracing for new storms as it faces an entirely different crisis the beginning of a possible wave of evictions caused by the coronavirus pandemi...

A 150pound (68kilogram) tortoise who escaped from a Tennessee home has been returned after 74 days, managing to make it less than a mile during his slow and steady journey.

Twin blasts including a suicide bombing killed 15 people and wounded 75 others on a restive southern Philippine island on Monday, among them security forces and civilians, with Islamist militants suspected of being behind the attack.

Turkish rescue workers on Monday recovered the body of another victim of severe weekend floods that swept along Turkeys Black Sea coast, raising the death toll to seven, officials said. At least nine other people were reported missing.

Protesters marched through a Louisiana city holding signs and at times blocking traffic in response to the fatal police shooting of a Black man that has heighten tensions between community activists and local leaders.