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Philippe SIUBERSKI/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A research station in Antarctica is battling a COVID-19 outbreak despite being located in one of the most remote corners of the world. Since mid-De...

iStock/CatEyePerspective(NEW YORK) -- A document Prince Andrew claims should prevent him from being sued by an alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein was unsealed Monday by a federal judge in New York. The...

GETTY/ George Pachantouris(NEW MEXICO) -- More than 20 people became trapped overnight in a tram car on the Sandia Peak Tramway in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as rescue efforts are underway for one ...

SAUL LOEB/POOL/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday -- their second conversation this month amid heightened fears of a full-s...

Chesnot/Getty Images(LONDON) -- France this week became the latest European country to tighten its coronavirus restrictions, with nations across the continent posting record numbers of COVID-19 infect...

Anthony Kwan/Getty Images(HONG KONG) -- Hong Kong’s national security police arrested six people linked to Stand News, an independent online media outlet, in another sign that the city’s o...

NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images(MOSCOW) -- In what has been described as a watershed moment for President Vladimir Putin's crackdown on dissent, Russia's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the ...

iStock/narvikk(NEW YORK) -- SydPath, an Australian-based lab, sent hundreds of patients the wrong test results, due to a "data processing error," it said in a statement. The lab announced in a stateme...

Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images(MOSCOW) -- Russia's deputy defense minister warned foreign ambassadors of a "high risk" of conflict between the country and its neighbor Ukraine -- one day after President...

iStock/nirat(LONDON) -- After a failed appeal earlier this month, Britain's The Mail on Sunday included a front-page notice on Dec. 26 to readers that it lost the legal battle over publishing parts of...