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Yang descends and hangs off the steep cliff face, patiently picking up rubbish thrown off the side by tourists. His colleagues at the top hold firmly onto his rope, attached to hooks in the rock.

There will be no glitzy banquet honouring winners in Stockholm or Oslo as the global pandemic curtails the usual celebrations.

Nepal recalculates the height of Mount Everest at 8848.86 metres, the country's Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali announced.

The UK will be the first country in the world to start using the Pfizer vaccine after regulators approved its use last week.

The United States continues to be the most affected country by the virus with its total cases nearing 15 million.

Fraser Island lies just off the east coast of Australia.

"The car bomb was detonated outside the central police station of Daman district at around 10.30 a.m. Initial information found 24 people, including 13 civilians were wounded by the explosion," a provincial police spokesman told Xinhua news agency.

The name 1337 centre comes from a system of modified spellings used by hackers and gamers to show their "elite" status

Wen Junhong has a soft spot for all voiceless animals

The ministry also reported 21 new deaths and 1,910 more recovered cases in the country, raising the death toll from the infectious virus to 12,432 and the total recoveries to 493,567

Biden is expected to make the announcement in coming days, along with choices for other key health posts, including head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The coronavirus-related deaths in Britain rose by 231 to 61,245, the data showed on Sunday, Xinhua news agency reported.

In its latest update on Monday, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 67,009,962 and 1,535,107, respectively.

They were making some headway, but the pandemic has halted progress in its tracks

Toumeyella parvicornis operates like a little vampire, sucking with its syringe-like mouth the sap from the tree's needles and bark

A small group of residents and religious leaders participated in the tree-lighting ceremony at Manger Square near the Church of the Nativity, where Christians believe Jesus was born.

The cargo capsule carrying lunar rocks and soil lifted off from the surface on Thursday, and docked with the orbiter on Sunday morning, the official Xinhua news agency said.

As of 5 p.m. Saturday, 43 close contacts had been quarantined in designated places and 109 were under observation at home, according to the Harbin epidemic response headquarters.

Britain on Wednesday gave emergency approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, with health officials set to use criteria based on age and vulnerability to decide the order of people to receive it.

The accident took place on Friday evening when workers were dismantling equipment in the pit, trapping 24 workers underground.

India comes in second place in terms of cases at 9,608,211, while the country's death toll soared to 139,700.

A military takeover of the China-Pakistan economic corridor means a tighter embrace between both countries and mightier concerns for India

The measure will come into effect on Saturday and remain in force throughout December, the mayor said on Twitter.

Gold, in any crisis, would be the key asset to look out for, feel locals