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Partial lockdown in Beijing over COVID-19 outbreak
Seven cases were reported in the city on Wednesday, including six in southern Daxing district.
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US President Trump pardons 73 people in 11th-hour clemency spree
US President Donald Trump pardoned his ex-strategist Steve Bannon and rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black along with scores of others.
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UK coronavirus variant detected in at least 60 countries: WHO
With the global death toll now well past two million, and new variants of the virus causing deep concern, countries across the world are grappling with how to slow infections until vaccines become widely available.
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Biden leads COVID-19 memorial on eve of inauguration
The US on Tuesday recorded another 2,482 deaths due to the virus, according to Johns Hopkins University's tally.
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Trump halts deportation of Venezuelans for 18 months
The 'Miami Herald' said the order could aid up to 200,000 Venezuelans who live under threat of detention and deportation.
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Portugal govt under fire over record COVID-19 figures
Portuguese health authorities said they had recorded 218 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours -- the first time the figure has exceeded 200 in the country of 10 million people.
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Navalny releases investigation into 'Putin's palace'
The investigation, published on the opposition figure's blog with an accompanying two-hour YouTube video recorded before his return to Russia, claims the property cost $1.35 billion and was paid for "with the largest bribe in history".
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Trump spends last day in White House, Biden goes to Washington
Trump has not appeared in public for a week and, suspended from Twitter in the wake of his encouraging supporters to march on Congress, has been uncharacteristically silent.
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Lebanon returns two stolen 18th-century icons to Greece
The paintings were stolen from an exhibition in Athens in 2016, and Greece put out an international notice calling for their return.
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Trump decorates Bahrain king on last full day in office
Trump, who sees Arab recognition of Israel as a key overseas achievement of his presidency, already conferred the same award on King Mohammed VI of Morocco last week for his move to restore ties.
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Pandemic reveals hidden poverty in wealthy Japan
The world's third-largest economy has seen a relatively small coronavirus outbreak so far, with around 4,500 deaths and largely without the drastic lockdowns seen in other countries.
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Chinese city rushes to build massive COVID-19 quarantine centre
The facility is expected to have enough rooms to hold more than 4,000 people once it is completed, CCTV said Tuesday.
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Trump mulling pardons on last full day in power
On Wednesday at noon, Joe Biden will be sworn in and the Trump presidency will end, turning the page on some of the most disruptive, divisive years the United States has seen since the 1960s.
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Biden facing 'competing crises' as he takes office
Perhaps the biggest is the coronavirus pandemic, which has left some 400,000 Americans dead.
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In farewell video, Melania Trump says be passionate, but not violent
The Trumps' departure has been fractious, with the president refusing for months to accept the election result due to false allegations of fraud, and declining to congratulate his successor Joe Biden.
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Vaccine drive expands as COVID probe criticises global response
Both the WHO and Beijing could have acted faster when COVID-19 first surfaced in China a year ago, the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response concluded in a report.
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FBI says Capitol rioter allegedly hoped to sell Pelosi laptop to Russia
The complaint, filed late Sunday in US District Court in Washington, seeks the arrest of Riley June Williams of Pennsylvania on grounds including "violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds."
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Immune system 'remembers' coronavirus for at least 6 months: study
Researchers in the United States and Switzerland studied dozens of people who had recovered from COVID-19 and found that while their antibodies may fade over time, they maintained levels of specific memory B cells.
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WHO, China could have acted more quickly: pandemic response probe
COVID-19 was first detected in the central city of Wuhan in late 2019, before seeping beyond China's borders to wreak global havoc, costing more than two million lives and eviscerating economies.
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Meet the Bidens: America's new 'first family'
Joe Biden has made his family a major focus throughout his career, and his 2020 presidential campaign thrust them fully into the spotlight.
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Merkel condemns Navalny arrest, demands release: spokesman
Police seized Alexei Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's most prominent opponent, at a border control post at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on Sunday.
