Brazil has recorded over 170,000 coronavirus deaths, according to an AFP tally, behind only the United States.

Hundreds of Nigerian artefacts, including Benin bronzes stolen during pre-colonial and colonial period, are in museums in Europe and the United States.

Four straight wins have taken Spurs to 20 points after nine games, ahead of Liverpool on goal difference, but Frank Lampard's Chelsea are just two points behind them.

Russia was the first country to announce the registration of a coronavirus vaccine in August - dubbed Sputnik V after the Soviet-era satellite - but did so ahead of large-scale clinical trials.

The government closed its borders, schools, and mosques when the virus first hit in March, as well as banning large gatherings and travel between cities, and imposing a night-time curfew.

Napoli made sure the fans gathered outside to pay their respects to Maradona weren't disappointed by the current team as an Armando Anastasio own goal and a simple Hirving Lozano finish sealed the points.

China - Australia's biggest trade partner - has threatened economic retaliation since Canberra called for an inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic, and has already suspended some timber and beef imports.

The Electoral College, which determines the White House winner, will meet on 14 December to certify Joe Biden's victory, with Biden receiving 306 votes to Trump's 232.

Britain has secured access to 100 million doses of the vaccine produced by the British drug manufacturer in partnership with the University of Oxford.

Many of the mourners were in tears, and some wore the World Cup winner's number 10 Argentina jersey as they gathered at the Casa Rosada presidential palace in Buenos Aires to see his coffin.

In early November, Denmark announced it would cull all of the country's more than 15 million minks after a mutated version of the novel coronavirus was discovered and believed to jeopardise the effectiveness of future vaccines.

Scientists have trekked to the remote location for decades to study the chimps' remarkable use of tools.

Netflix said the show, which follows the turbulent career of a fictional female child prodigy in the 1950s and 1960s, has become its most-watched ever and is currently the number-one ranked programme in 63 countries.

Ahly have won the Champions League eight times and been crowned Egyptian Premier League champions on 42 occasions.

Wellington Takavarasha, head of the Zimbabwe Miners Federation, told AFP the miners were working inside the disused Ran Gold Mine when a shaft caved in.

Three other pupils were charged with complicity earlier this month over the beheading last month of Paty, who had shown his students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad as part of a lesson on free speech.

On 2 April more than 3.9 billion people - half of the world's population - are forced or called on to confine themselves, according to an AFP count. The same day the threshold of one million cases is crossed.