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DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — With restaurants and bars all closed due to pandemic restrictions, a Duesseldorf brewery found itself with 6,000 liters (1,585 gallons) of its copper-colored “Altbier” unsold and nearing its expiry date. But with trying times come novel…

President Joe Biden shut down oil and gas sales from the nation’s vast public reserves over worries about climate change. Now the administration has to figure out what do with that multi-billion dollar program without crushing a significant sector of the U.S. economy. On the campaign trail, Biden pledged to end leasing and new drilling permits for public lands and waters. The leasing ban announced Jan. 27 is only temporary, and it’s unclear how much legal authority the government has to stop drilling on about 23 million acres previously sold. 

MOSCOW (AP) — Three members of a Russian bomber's air crew died Tuesday when their ejection seats accidentally activated during preflight checks, the military said. The Russian Defense Ministry said the incident happened at an airbase in the Kaluga region,…

A fire at an assisted living center in suburban New York has killed one resident and sent two firefighters and multiple residents to hospitals. Rescuers are combing through rubble for a third firefighter who is missing after the blaze early Tuesday at the Evergreen Court Home for Adults in Spring Valley. That's about 30 miles north of New York City. Rockland County Fire coordinator Chris Kear says the missing firefighter issued a mayday call while rescuing a resident on the building’s third floor. Other firefighters rushed to help but couldn’t because the flames were too intense. Investigators are trying to determine the fire's cause.

A new poll finds most parents fear their children are falling behind in school while at home during the coronavirus pandemic. The poll from The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds 69% of parents are at least somewhat concerned their children will face setbacks in school because of the pandemic, including 42% who say they’re very or extremely worried about it. But nearly as many, 64%, say they're at least somewhat concerned in-person instruction will lead to more people being infected.

BRUSSELS (AP) — Since the coronavirus started spreading through Europe over a year ago, NATO's headquarters in Brussels has been off-limits to the media and others, but the military alliance now aims to get ahead of Belgium's vaccine program and…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Sinovac said its COVID-19 vaccine is safe in children ages 3-17, based on preliminary data, and it has submitted the data to Chinese drug regulators. More than 70 million shots of Sinovac’s vaccine have been given…

Airbnb is being asked to drop its sponsorship connections to next year's Beijing's Winter Olympics by a coalition of 150 human rights campaigners. The coalition is headed by groups that oppose rights violations in China. Airbnb is one of the International Olympic Committee's leading 15 sponsors. An open letter asking Airbnb to withdraw its connection to Beijing was sent to CEO Brian Chesky. The top 15 IOC sponsors paid about $1 billion in the last full Olympic cycle to be associated with the games. Rights groups are pressuring IOC sponsors and planning diplomatic boycotts of the games to call attention to alleged abuses against Uyghurs, Tibetans and and others in China.

BEIJING (AP) — China looked to Europe as an amicable partner as the continent's leaders resisted being drawn into President Donald Trump’s conflicts with Beijing over trade, technology and human rights. On Monday, that image shattered when the European Union…

A day after upsets were all the rage at the NCAA Tournament, the second round wrapped up with just one mild surprise and the rest all blowouts. Led by overall No. 1 Gonzaga, the rest of the higher seeds in action Monday clobbered their opponents by an average of 18 points. Bulldogs big man Drew Timme said, “You gotta bring that fire. Because all it takes is one good game and you can be out.” But right now, even very good might not be enough to knock a calm, confident and comfortable Gonzaga team off its perch.   

The U.K. has a lot to reflect on a year after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson first announced that the country would go into lockdown to slow the fast-spreading coronavirus. A national day of reflection taking place on Tuesday will remember more than 126,000 people who died after contracting the virus. The U.K. has the highest pandemic death toll in Europe and the fifth-highest worldwide. Few foresaw that scale of death and grief when Johnson made a prime-time televised address instructing the British people to stay at home. The prime minister nonetheless has faced criticism for delaying the first lockdown, as well as the current one that remains in effect.

Among the economic victims of the coronavirus pandemic in Spain are newly homeless residents who saw their jobs dry up or their marriages collapse and now have nowhere to live but their cars. One 65-year-old man who has spent three months sleeping in his Renault Clio says that before was evicted from his apartment he wouldn't have been able to fathom ending up homeless after five decades of manual labor. The pandemic has been particularly hard on Spain’s economy due to its reliance on tourism and the service sector. The country’s left-wing government has maintained a furlough program to reduce the impact, but over a million jobs have been wiped out.