Новости за 07.08.2020

The number of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. military passed the 30,000 threshold this week, the Pentagon reported on Friday.

Authorities in Texas arrested a former Los Angeles Angels employee, accusing him of providing the fentanyl that led to pitcher Tyler Skaggs' overdose death last year, federal prosecutors said Friday.

A defense cooperation agreement between France and Cyprus, three years in the making, is now in force, the Cypriot government announced this week.

Palmerston, the British Foreign Office's famous feline "Chief Mouser," announced he is retiring to "spend more time relaxing away from the limelight."

Roughly one in three children hospitalized with COVID-19 across the country have required treatment in the intensive care unit, according to figures released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

An aerial combat simulation between an F-16 pilot and an artificial intelligence algorithm is part of the government-sponsored "Alpha Dog Trials" on Aug. 20.

By tracing the abundance of 'invisible' words -- pronouns, articles and other short words -- researchers were able to identify patterns shared by a diversity of stories, from Shakespeare to Spielberg.

An Air India Express jetliner carrying 190 people skidded off the runway while landing in southwest India on Friday, killing 20, local authorities said.

The percentage of adults who lacking access to healthy food has more than doubled in the United States over the past 20 years -- to 18% from 9% -- an analysis published Friday by JAMA Network Open revealed.

Medical staff members at a hospital in the Philippines found themselves dealing with an unusual non-medical emergency Friday morning -- a large lizard loose in the building.

Led by the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, the Air Force and Navy held joint training exercises this week near Japan, the 7th Fleet announced.

A cat brought into a Las Vegas shelter as a stray was reunited with his family 10 years after going missing from a friend's house.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday all New York school districts can reopen in the fall after meeting seven-day rolling infection rates in all 10 regions, but officials still have to sign off on individual plans.

K-pop group Twice shared footage from its rehearsals for its "Beyond Live - Twice: World in a Day" online concert.

The U.S. Air Force this week concluded a test of tactics with its highly classified RQ-170 surveillance drone with other stealth aircraft, including the B-2 bomber, F-15, F-22, F-35 and E/A-18G Growler.

The U.S. government on Friday sanctioned Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam and 10 others for complying with Chinese policies it says restrict the island's freedoms.

The return of 'Shark Week' with boxing great Mike Tyson and a new concert series from The Who are just some of the entertainment options streaming this weekend.

A new test for gonorrhea can determine whether those infected will respond successfully to the inexpensive oral antibiotic ciprofloxacin, according to a study published Friday by Clinical Infectious Diseases.

The Foo Fighters canceled their 25th anniversary tour after previously rescheduling the tour for October.

"Rebecca," a new film based on the Daphne du Maurier novel, will premiere Oct. 21 on Netflix.

A Canadian citizen was sentenced to death for manufacturing and trafficking illegal drugs in China, a few days after another Chinese court ordered the death penalty for a Canadian national detained on similar charges.

A federal court ruled Friday that congressional Democrats have the right to enforce subpoenas in court, affirming a previous order calling former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify.

If global warming is to be limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the authors of a new study insist that efforts to reverse the economic damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic must include climate policy measures.

People who have a severe heart attack are more than twice as likely to die during the COVID-19 pandemic than they would have been in 2018-19, before the disease impacted the United States, a new study says.

ITV moved "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!" Season 20 from Australia to the U.K. due to the COVID-19 pandemic.