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MOSCOW -- The Russian capital on Thursday started a nonworking period intended to stem coronavirus infections as new daily cases and deaths from COVID-19 surged to all-time highs. The government coronavirus task force reported 1,159 deaths in 24 hours, the largest daily tally since the pandemic began. The country's official death…

Since their discovery, the ancestry of hundreds of mummified bodies buried in boats in an inhospitable desert region of northwest China has puzzled and divided archaeologists. Found in the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang mostly in the 1990s, the mummies' bodies and clothes are strikingly intact despite being up to 4,000 years old.…

Amirite, or amirite? As the world evolves, words follow, which is why Merriam-Webster has added 455 new ones to the dictionary this month. TBH, many have emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic that has shaped so much of people's lives over the past 20 months. In 2020, the English word of the year was not surprisingly "pandemic."…

TORONTO -- Bell Island in Newfoundland and Labrador is set to lose its only doctor come December, meaning inhabitants will have to take a ferry to the mainland for medical care. Named for the large bell-shaped rock off its west end, the island in Conception Bay, five kilometres off the Avalon Peninsula, was one of the world’s major…

OKLAHOMA CITY -- A federal appeals court granted stays of execution on Wednesday for two Oklahoma inmates who were scheduled to receive lethal injections in the coming weeks. A three-member panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued the stays for death row inmates John Marion Grant, who was scheduled to die on Thursday,…

WASHINGTON -- A sample of Sitting Bull's hair has helped scientists confirm that a South Dakota man is the famed 19th century Native American leader's great-grandson using a new method to analyze family lineages with DNA fragments from long-dead people. Researchers said on Wednesday that DNA extracted from the hair, which had been…

Neil Mellor has nothing but admiration for Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah and thinks he could win the Ballon d'Or. Speaking in an interview with Sky Sports, former Liverpool forward spoke of his admiration for Mohamed Salah. He praised Salah's football prowess at Anfield.The now Sky Sports pundit added playing under Jurgen Klopp is getting the…

WASHINGTON -- A lawyer for a Guantanamo Bay detainee says the U.S. Supreme Court should wait to decide a case involving his client until it's clear what the Biden administration will let the man say about his torture abroad by the CIA. The lawyer for Abu Zubaydah told the Supreme Court in a letter Monday that a case involving his…

HARRISBURG, PA. -- Pennsylvania prosecutors have dropped a felony theft charge against a man who underpaid for a bottle of Mountain Dew by 43 cents. Prosecutors in Perry County dropped the theft charge this month against Joseph Sobolewski, 38, and downgraded another charge, the Patriot-News reported Tuesday. In August, Sobolewski…

French President Emmanuel Macron has told Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison he has broken the trust between their two countries and it is up to Canberra to repair relations, the Elysee Palace says.In the call on Thursday, which came ahead of a UN climate change summit in Glasgow, Macron also urged Morrison to commit to halting coal mining…