Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York warned that the borough's coronavirus positivity rates are on track to overburden hospitals and push it into the highest lockdown level in the state, where cases are spiking.

On Friday, Georgia election officials certified that President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. won the state's electoral votes after a hand recount was concluded.

Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organization's regional director for Africa, said gatherings were fueling a 'concerning uptick' in cases in some African countries.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his counterpart from Bahrain joined Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in celebrating a U.S.-brokered normalization deal.

Riot police in Berlin used water canons to disperse crowds at a demonstration against coronavirus restrictions organized by coronavirus deniers, vaccine skeptics and right-wing extremists on Wednesday.

Archaeologists unearthed more than 100 painted wooden coffins up to 2,500 years old in the Saqqara burial ground, many containing mummies.

President Trump lauded progress being made on coronavirus vaccine candidates on Friday, and ignored surging virus rates across the country. At the same event, Vice President Mike Pence acknowledged the increase.

Officials said two men were killed in an explosion at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Connecticut Friday morning while performing routine maintenance on a leaking steam pipe. Three others were injured.

Top congressional Democrats renewed calls for a sweeping coronavirus relief package on Thursday, citing record-breaking coronavirus infections and the presidential election results, to justify a larger relief package.

President Trump participated in a brief, silent Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.