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Hondurans will choose a successor to deeply unpopular President Juan Orlando Hernández on Sunday in elections that could oust his National Party after 12 years in power [...]

But designers still aren’t sure what these virtual worlds may ultimately look like. [...]

The nation’s most ambitious engineering projects are mired in postponements and skyrocketing costs. Delivering $1.2 trillion in new infrastructure will be tough. [...]

The country has also added all African nations except Egypt and Morocco to its coronavirus “red list.” [...]

Governments are scrambling to close their borders to travelers from southern Africa, where a potentially dangerous new variant was first found. [...]

Australian officials are racing to conduct further tests on passengers arriving from southern Africa who tested positive for COVID-19 to determine if they are carrying the omicron variant as nations around the world tighten controls against the worrying new strain [...]

Swiss voters are having their say in a referendum Sunday on legislation which imposed the use of a special COVID-19 certificate that lets only people who have been vaccinated, recovered, or tested negative attend public events and gatherings [...]

Israel has approved barring entry to foreign nationals and the use of controversial technology for contact tracing as part of its efforts to clamp down on a new coronavirus variant [...]

Australia, Canada and Thailand are among the latest countries to restrict travelers from the region over concerns about the Omicron variant. [...]

Britain, Israel and others implemented new security measures as some health experts urged caution. [...]

Two decades ago, Spain was the new France, leading gastronomic innovation. Now two iconic chefs have joined forces in Paris. [...]

The world is racing to contain a new coronavirus variant that is potentially more dangerous than the one that has fueled waves of infection on nearly every continent [...]

Bloomberg — Black Friday deals ranked among the least generous in years as more U.S. consumers headed back to stores on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.Retailers appear to have the “lowest level of clearance goods in five years or more,” Oliver Chen, an analyst at Cowen [...]

Passengers on two flights that left South Africa on the eve of new restrictions faced a nightmarish situation. [...]

PORTLAND, Maine — The last holiday season was far from the most wonderful time of the year for the U.S. Postal Service: Sick and quarantined workers, a flood of packages from shoppers loath to set foot in stores and a last-minute dump of packages from overwhelmed private shippers. Postal workers who [...]

LONDON — Britain became the latest country Saturday to report cases of the new potentially more contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus as governments around the world sought to shore up their defenses by slapping restrictions on travel from nations in southern Africa. Amid fears that the recently identified new variant [...]

The country’s health secretary said the infected individuals were self-isolating as contact-tracing is done. [...]

Bria Ali and her family have twice tried to make it to Germany, desperate for a better life. They are now back home with thousands of others who made it to Europe in recent months only to be deported. [...]

The World Health Organization began naming the variants after Greek letters to avoid public confusion and stigma. [...]