In Boston and in the Netherlands, scientists are racing to build a vaccine against the virus strangling the world.

Queen Elizabeth II knighted 100-year-old Tom Moore, a World War II veteran who raised $40 million for Britain’s National Health Service by walking 100 laps in his garden.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson set guidelines Friday to ease lockdown restrictions, but he warned that life will not be normal until November at the earliest.

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Mr. Dickey reported from war zones and published seven books, including a memoir about growing up with his famous father.

Six travel workers from Alaska to the Maldives talk about returning to the job. They are in a new world, with restrictions and health measures, uncertainty and new procedures.

A rusting vessel used for years to store oil off Yemen’s coast poses what the United Nations has called a dire and entirely preventable threat of ecological catastrophe.

Overhead surveillance is critical to fighting the Taliban, but the American military’s effort to equip Afghan forces has fallen short, according to an independent watchdog.

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