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Peng Shuai says allegation was 鈥渆normous misunderstanding鈥�

February 6, 2022 at 9:37 p.m.

Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai has told a French newspaper that international concern over her well-being is based on 鈥渁n enormous misunderstanding鈥� and she denied having accused a high-ranking Chinese...

A employees works at NG Biotech, a start-up that makes an array of medical tests, including kits for use at home and by medical professionals to detect COVID-19 infections , in Guipry, western France, Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. With France breaking records in Europe for coronavirus infections, manufacturers are working flat-out to try to meet the huge demand for tests. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez)

鈥淎 hurricane鈥�: COVID storm sends test-makers into overdrive

January 7, 2022 at 9:15 a.m.

As countless millions of people in Europe waste hours in lines for COVID-19 tests and scour their nasal passages with self-test kits at home, at the other end of the...

Erin Tridle holds a video chat with her boyfriend Jordan Commarrieu living in Paris from their favorite French restaurant “Petit Trois” in Los Angeles on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. Travel restrictions that have separated couples and relatives living in different countries are about to end. New rules go into effect Monday, Nov. 8 that allow air travel from previously restricted countries as long as the traveler has proof of vaccination and a negative COVID-19 test. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

US reopens to international travel, allows happy reunions

November 8, 2021 at 5:26 p.m.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Parents held children born while they were stuck abroad. Long-separated couples kissed, and grandparents embraced grandchildren who had doubled in age.

UNICEF: Battered by pandemic, kids need mental health help

October 4, 2021 at 9:55 p.m.

Governments must pour more money and resources into preserving the mental well-being of children and adolescents, the U.N.'s child protection agency urged in a report Tuesday that sounded alarms about...

Tokyo Olympics skateboarding preview: New friends, put to the test

July 1, 2021 at 11:41 a.m.

For skateboarding, a sport where the No. 1 rule is that there are no rules, the straight jacket of the Olympic Games, with its dense thickets of tradition and regulation,...

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COVID-defying nun toasts 117th birthday with wine and prayer

February 11, 2021 at 7:12 a.m.

Question: How does one cram enough candles onto a birthday cake for one of the world's oldest survivors of COVID-19? Answer: With 117 candles, you can't.

FILE – In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, cemetery workers carry the remains of 89-year-old Abilio Ribeiro, who died of the coronavirus, to bury at the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil. The global death toll from COVID-19 has topped 2 million. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)

“This is not a game”: Global COVID-19 death toll hits 2 million

January 15, 2021 at 2:38 p.m.

The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 2 million Friday, crossing the threshold amid a vaccine rollout so immense but so uneven that in some countries there is real hope...

Spain’s Rafael Nadal celebrates winning the ...

Perfect in Paris, Rafael Nadal overwhelms Novak Djokovic at French Open to tie Roger Federer

October 11, 2020 at 3:49 p.m.

All the years of work, all the many wins, led to this moment, with Rafael Nadal preparing to serve against Novak Djokovic, one point from a 13th French Open championship,...

Perfect in Paris, Nadal overwhelms Djokovic to tie Federer

October 11, 2020 at 1:47 p.m.

All the years of work, all the many wins, led to this moment, with Rafael Nadal preparing to serve against Novak Djokovic, one point from a 13th French Open championship,...

Olivia de Havilland, star of “Gone With the Wind,” dies at 104

July 26, 2020 at 1:18 p.m.

Olivia de Havilland, the last remaining star from the 1939 epic film "Gone With the Wind" and a two-time Academy Award winner who for decades was seen as the essence...

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