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CHICAGO: Large crowds clashed with police as rioters vandalized stores in downtown Chicago overnight Sunday, with officers returning fire after being targeted by gunfire, police said. Looters broke into a Chicago mall and are looting the place clean tonight. #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/wKJZbcvpoZ — Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 10, 2020 Local media ...

A crow stands on a roof as a partial solar eclipse is observed in Nairobi, Kenya. PHOTO: REUTERS , A Covid-19 testing lab built with an air-inflated structure went into trial operation on Monday at a sports venue in Daxing District of Beijing to address the city’s rising demand for nucleic acid tests after ...

PARIS: Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg can add to her list of personal accolades, including TIME Person of the Year, a group of spiders named after her. Thunberga gen. nov. is a new genus of huntsman spiders from Madagascar, described by German arachnologist Peter Jager, and named after the wunderkind in ...

. PRESTATYN: Local residents and police officers take part in a workout and dance session aimed at helping people cope with the coronavirus outbreak in Prestatyn in north Wales, Britain. Local police officer Rich Fishlock (L) takes part in a workout and dance session with local residents organized by resident ...

© Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP via Getty Images A health worker uses a swab to collect a sample from a woman on a mobile coronavirus (COVID-19) testing unit, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on April 18, 2020. © Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images Cars pack a street in Tehran, Iran, on April 18, 2020, after ...

. Volunteers fumigate a street in Nairobi to curb the spread of COVID-19 (AFP photo) .

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LONDON: The 69th Miss World competition has returned to London for its finale taking place on December 14, 2019. Here are the pictures of contestants arriving in London. The England Miss World contestant Bhasha Mukherjee. (Image: AP) The Sweden Miss World contestant Daniella Lundqvist. (Image: AP) The New Zealand Miss ...