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After protests from players and the backing of celebrity support, the International Handball Federation will no longer mandate bikini-style uniforms for female beach players, however, they must still wear pants “with a close fit,” according to the updated rules.

Musk's tweet comes at a time some politicians call on billionaires to start to pay more in taxes.

After testing everyone, the park will remain shut on Monday and Tuesday as it continues to cooperate with pandemic prevention efforts, Shanghai Disneyland said in a statement Monday.

President Joe Biden is taking a markedly more humble tone for a U.S. leader on climate change.

The COVID-19 death toll worldwide has topped 5 million people less than two years into the crisis.

The results showed that those who were vaccinated had a similar viral load of the delta variant as those who were unvaccinated.

The Tokyo Fire Department said 17 passengers were injured, including three seriously.

Jayson Magan of Burol Elementary School made life-size cutouts of his students and posted them around his classroom.

The U.N. climate summit in Glasgow has opened Sunday, kicking off two weeks of intense diplomatic negotiations by almost 200 countries on how to tackle the common challenge of global warming.

Leaders of the world’s biggest economies committed to reaching carbon neutrality “by or around mid-century” as they wrapped up a two-day summit that laid the groundwork for the U.N. climate conference in Scotland.

While President Joe Biden regularly receives Communion in his home dioceses in Washington and Delaware, it was significant that he also received Communion in Rome.

Amid skyrocketing revenues of some multinational businesses, leaders of the world’s biggest economies have endorsed a global minimum tax on corporations as part of an agreement on new international tax rules.

President Joe Biden says international negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program will resume.

“I think what happened was — to use an English phrase — what we did was clumsy," President Joe Biden said, adding the submarine deal “was not done with a lot of grace.”

Despite the concerns of some of the delegates from around the world, the British government says the conference will be safe and argues that world leaders must meet face-to-face in order to act now to prevent catastrophic global warming.

Two weeks of intense climate change negotiations start Sunday, and some leaders say humanity's future is at stake.

Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II has been advised to rest for at least the next two weeks.

President Joe Biden is joining other leaders for the G-20 summit this weekend in Rome to discuss the post-pandemic economic recovery and more.

While other Asian countries inch toward reopening, Japan looks likely to keep its borders shut for some time to come.