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President Joe Biden visited a Mack Trucks factory in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, pledging to boost the number of American products bought with taxpayer dollars in a tougher "buy American" policy. But at one point during his speech he appeared to accidentally call former-President Barack Obama "President Trump," which he says was a Freudian slip.

A massive waterspout appeared off the coast of Ostia near Rome on Thursday (December 9) afternoon.

Soldiers who staged an uprising in Guinea's capital on Sunday said in a short broadcast on state television that they have dissolved the constitution and the government in the West African state, while videos shared on social media showed the country's president Alpha Conde being detained by army special forces. Lauren Anthony reports.

As Russian forces moved deeper into Ukraine on Friday, sports bodies moved quickly to strip Russia of events, with St Petersburg losing the Champions League final while the Formula One Grand Prix will not be held in Sochi. This report produced by Freddie Joyner.

Russia will not use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, foreign ministry spokesperson Alexei Zaitsev said on Friday (May 6), accusing those who suggested Moscow might launch a nuclear strike of "deliberate lies".

A group of American truckers began a cross-country drive from California to Washington on Wednesday to protest coronavirus restrictions, taking a cue from demonstrations that paralyzed Canada's capital city, Ottawa, for weeks.

Swimming's world governing body FINA has voted to restrict the participation of transgender athletes in elite women's competitions and create a working group to establish an "open" category for them in some events as part of its new policy. Olivia Chan reports.

Efforts to dislodge a giant container ship blocking the Suez Canal had allowed its stern and rudder to move on Saturday, but it remained unclear when it could be refloated, the head of the canal authority said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned weekend protests demanding the release of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny as dangerous and illegal, as the opposition politician's allies said they planned a similar protest for Sunday.

Former President Donald Trump condemned on Saturday Russia's invasion of Ukraine and said he was praying for Ukrainians, switching tone from his praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this week.

Police in cities across Ontario, Canada's most populous province, on Saturday refused to make random stops greenlighted by the provincial government seeking to impose a stay-at-home order amid a surge in COVID-19 cases. This report produced by Jillian Kitchener.

Military guards mysterious monolith which has appeared in south-eastern Turkey.

Graphics from a shipping tracking map shows the extent of traffic building in the Suez Canal behind a giant container ship that has run aground on Friday (March 26).

Tens of thousands of people gathered in the center of Brussels on Monday (June 20) to protest against the cost of living. Strikes forced the Brussels Airport to cancel all departing flights and halted many bus services across the country.

U.S. President Joe Biden joins candidate Terry McAuliffe in Virginia for a rally ahead of the November 2 gubernatorial election.

Protests against COVID-19 restrictions in the French island of Guadeloupe have resulted in burnt cars, debris and charred buildings.

Canadian police began clearing protesters blocking a key bridge linking Canada and the United States on Saturday (February 12), more than 12 hours after a court order came into effect that ended a blockade that had snarled international trade.

The Tau-Herculid meteor shower brought pieces of cosmic rocks into our atmosphere that shone in the night sky in the early hours of Tuesday.

Alec Baldwin was handed what was described as a safe "cold gun" on the set of his movie "Rust," but the prop gun contained live rounds when it was fired, according to details of the police investigation into the fatal shooting released on Friday. Flora Bradley-Watson reports.

Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard will become the first transgender athlete to compete at the Olympics after being selected by New Zealand for the women's event at the Tokyo Games. XXX reports.

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden's expected move to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline prompted Canada's main oil-producing province of Alberta on Monday to threaten to seek damages as Ottawa made efforts to save the troubled project. Bryan Wood reports.

Moderna has filed lawsuits against Pfizer and BioNTech for patent infringement concerning its COVID-19 vaccine development. It was an innovator in the messenger RNA vaccine technology, which enabled unusually fast progress on the shot. Lucy Fielder has more.

Netflix said on Thursday it is testing a new feature that could crack down on password sharing, by asking some viewers to verify if they live in the same household as the owner of accounts they use, in order to ascertain whether they have the permission to do so. Jayson Albano reports.

Liz Truss arrived at Balmoral Castle on Tuesday (September 6) to be formally appointed by Queen Elizabeth as Britain's next prime minister.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday (February 27) thanked special forces for "heroically fulfilling their military duty" in Ukraine.