![Maradona led Argentina to a World Cup victory in 1986 [File: Carlo Fumagalli/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_761775293235.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
![Xi expresses the hope that the two sides will uphold the spirit of non-conflict and non-confrontation [File: EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/h_51129398-e1606319662365.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
![A man rides his bicycle cart past closed shops as Palestinians call for a general strike to protest against Bahrain's economic workshop for US's Middle East 'peace plan', in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, June 25, 2019 [File: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/a66aaae8e3c04a64b3488e08eb1c991c_18.jpeg?resize=120%2C80)
![In this frame grab from Iranian state television video, British Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert is seen in Tehran, Iran [Iranian State Television via AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_20330597753262.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![A surge in United States coronavirus cases and new lockdown measures in some communities have led to more layoffs, leading to a muted opening for Wall Street Wednesday [File: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/wallst-1.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![If the incoming Joe Biden administration has the political will, Iran-US relations could be very different, president says [AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/000_8UJ42X-1-e1606317754102.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![Local media reports said the bus was carrying 53 employees of a textile company [Juliano Oliveira/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_20330629636321.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![Relatives of Royal Sahnazarov, his wife Zuleyha Sahnazarova and their daughter Medine Sahnazorava, who were killed when a rocket hit their home, mourn during their funeral in the city of Ganja, Azerbaijan, October 17, 2020, during fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh [File: Bulent Kilic/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/000_8TA8UK.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![This handout photo shows Indian army fighter jets on the deck of an aircraft carrier during the second phase of the Malabar naval exercise in the Arabian sea [Indian Navy/ AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/000_8VF984.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![Xi expresses the hope that the two sides will uphold the spirit of non-conflict and non-confrontation [File: EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/h_51129398-e1606319662365.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
Ethiopia's Tigray conflict
![A member of the Amhara Special Forces watches on at the border crossing with Eritrea while where an Imperial Ethiopian flag waves, in Humera, Ethiopia, on November 22, 2020. [Eduardo Soteras/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/000_8VP6MA.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
![The United Nations says 4,000 people were crossing into Sudan from Ethiopia every day since the conflict began on November 4 [Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-23T230243Z_230372156_RC2B9K9CA6I6_RTRMADP_3_ETHIOPIA-CONFLICT.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
![Tigray refugees who fled the conflict arriving on the banks of Tekeze river on the Sudan-Ethiopia border [Nariman El-Mofty/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_20326620976103-e1606225061941.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
![Children play next to the market in Humera. [Eduardo Soteras/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/000_8VP6LT.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Israeli army soldiers attempt to detain injured Palestinian man
In footage captured in West Bank, Israeli soldiers are seen trying to remove a Palestinian man from an ambulance.
![The Jordan Valley is home to about 60,000 Palestinians [File: Ammar Awad/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/07ecfea2d6224bc7b70386c8b13c8469_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
Lebanon judge asks Parliament to probe ministers over port blast
Top investigator asks MPs to probe current and ex-ministers dating back to 2013, when ammonium nitrate arrived at port.
![About 25 people have been arrested and 33 charged in the blast probe so far [File: Hannah McKay/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-08-11T044119Z_411219996_RC2GBI9XBD9C_RTRMADP_3_LEBANON-SECURITY-BLAST.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Rollercoaster: Bitcoiners who missed rally feel relief and regret
Investing in cryptocurrencies is like playing roulette, some experts say, because no one really knows what’s happening.
![Unlike stocks or bonds, where business trends or central bank decisions can affect prices, cryptocurrency values remain somewhat of an enigma [File: Dado Ruvic/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/bitcoin.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Opinion
Germany’s Bertelsmann to buy Simon & Schuster in $2.17B cash deal
Bertelsmann says Simon & Schuster will become a unit within its book publishing division Penguin Random House.
![Bertelsmann, which also owns a broad portfolio of broadcast, music and online businesses, said it would buy publisher Simon & Schuster [File: Michael Sohn/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/bertel.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Biden says Trump admin not ‘begrudging so far’ in transition
The Trump administration has begun cooperating with Biden’s team, despite the president refusing to concede the race.
![President-elect Joe Biden has said the Trump administration is cooperating with the transition, but he has not heard from the president [Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_20329708239123.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Yemen: Houthis give UN permission to inspect stranded oil tanker
The safer tanker repair mission is meant to prevent a potential oil spill that could shut Yemen’s key port of Hodeidah.
![The UN has warned the Safer, stranded since 2015, could spill four times as much oil as the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster near Alaska [File: AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/000_8VT8K8.jpg?resize=570%2C380)