File photo taken on Jan. 1, 2020 shows Park Won-soon, mayor of South Korea's capital Seoul, extending New Year greetings in Seoul, South Korea. Park was found dead hours after his daughter filed a missing report to police earlier Thursday, multiple local media said citing police.

A giant, yellow "Black Lives Matter" mural was painted Thursday on New York City's Fifth Avenue right in front of Trump Tower, a skyscraper that serves as the headquarters for the Trump Organization.

A Long March-3B carrier rocket carrying the commercial telecommunication satellite APSTAR-6D blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province, July 9, 2020. China successfully sent the satellite into a planned orbit on Thursday.

"A broad consensus" has been reached to rebuild the spire of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in the French capital as it was before the blaze in April last year, Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot told France Inter radio on Thursday, adding that the final decision belongs to President Emmanuel Macron.

WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show revealed on June 23 that Anthony Fauci, the director of the United States National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, believed the US should be noted that “the first wave of cases came from Europe as ‘everybody was looking at China’”.

Examinees leave the exam venue after finishing the national college entrance exam at the No. 3 Middle School in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, July 8, 2020. The national college entrance exam concluded in some parts of China on Wednesday.