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A woman named Carol Hover has been trying to unravel the mystery behind the decades old letters she has been receiving at her house in New York.

A new report by the US government's Drought Monitor has revealed that the water levels in California's two biggest reservoirs have dropped to "critically low levels."

A man who was reunited with his biological mother after 30 years of separation confessed to his wife that he was in love with his mother and that they enjoyed 'mind-blowing' sex several times.

The Alabama prison officer and the inmate who disappeared last week were in a "romantic relationship," and the officer willingly participated in the murder suspect's escape, according to the prison authorities.

Germany decided Tuesday to withhold certification for completing the project

Foreign visitors to China will have to undergo an anal swab test or give a stool sample to test for COVID-19.

Autopsies are underway, but identification of the corpses will be complicated due to their condition, a source from the prosecutor's office said.

Experts predict that the final 2020 tally would be 400,000 more than the total number of deaths in 2019.

Figures additionally showed the only region where cases and deaths declined last week was Southeast Asia.

The APEC forum, held online this year because of the pandemic, brings together 21 Pacific Rim countries including the world's two biggest economies.

Honor has been purchased by a group of 40 companies comprising agents, distributors and other businesses dependent on the brand's survival.

China was previously among a handful of major countries including Russia and Mexico that had not congratulated the president-elect Joe Biden.

In the book, "Promised Land," which comes out Tuesday, Obama writes that Rahul Gandhi has "a nervous, unformed quality about him.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has repeatedly played down the link between climate and the bushfires.

Hopes that a treatment for the killer disease will be rolled out as soon as this year put a rocket under stocks such as airlines.

The situation is particularly worrying in the border city of El Paso in western Texas, a state where coronavirus cases have exceeded one million.

The shuttering of bookshops ahead of the busy Christmas period is particularly hard for independent booksellers.

Biden promises to be more measured in tone and knit back tattered alliances on the global stage -- that could carry a sharper geopolitical threat to Beijing.

Pfizer said tests involving more than 40,000 people had provided results that were a "critical milestone" in the search for a vaccine.

On the campaign trail, Biden said he would not meet with Kim without preconditions and accused Trump of "emboldening" the North Korean leader.

The US is in dire need of a fresh rescue package as the disease flares up again, threatening an already stuttering recovery in the world's top economy.