Australia's second-most populous state declared a state of disaster, with Melbourne entering a stricter lockdown including nightly curfews and limits on movement. This comes as the state confirmed 671 new COVID-19 cases and seven new deaths.

Two passengers who refused to wear masks were removed from a Delta Air Lines flight before it left Detroit for Atlanta on July 23. Last week, Delta CEO Ed Bastian said "If you board the plane and you insist on not wearing your mask, we will insist that you don’t fly Delta into the future."

More than two months after arriving at the International Space Station, US astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken will return to Earth, splashing down at the Gulf of Mexico, marking the first crew recovery at sea since 1975.

The Washington State Department of Agriculture announced that officials were able to trap the state's first Asian giant hornet, also known as the "murder hornet," following five previous confirmed sightings. The department said the next steps are to search for nests using infrared cameras and place additional traps to catch live specimens, which will be tagged and tracked back to their colony. Officials aim to find and destroy the nest by mid-September before the colony would begin creating new reproducing queens and drones.

According to TMZ, the diabetes campaigner and film actor for cult classics including Cocoon, The Natural and The Thing passed away on Saturday morning at his home in Utah.

The Associated Press reports that scientists are looking into COVID-19 outbreaks within mink farms in the Netherlands and Spain to see if it is possible for the virus to be transmitted back to humans. So far, more than a million animals have been culled after several outbreaks in fur farms.

The defending champions restarted their season on Saturday with a 107-92 win over the Los Angeles Lakers. Kyle Lowry had 33 points and a career-high 14 rebounds while OG Anunoby dropped 23 points. LeBron James had 20 points and 10 rebounds while Anthony Davis had just 14 points.

The Serum Institute, run by Indian billionaire Adar Poonawalla, plans to make hundreds of millions of doses of an unproven Oxford designed vaccine. “It’s a gamble with a huge upside. And huge risks,” according to the New York Times.

On Saturday night, stargazers around the world were able to capture images of Jupiter, Saturn and the moon all at once.

During a flight from Tampa on Friday, the president told press pool reporters traveling on Air Force One he plans to ban the Chinese-owned social media platform from operating in the United States as soon as Saturday. In response, TikTok’s US General Manager Vanessa Pappas recorded a message saying, “We’re not planning on going anywhere.”

Ongoing protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continued on Saturday night with an estimated tens of thousands taking to the streets in Jerusalem. Demonstrators have been marching for weeks against the leader's alleged corruption and his government's handling of the COVID-19 crisis.

The Department of Homeland Security halted the practice of compiling intelligence reports on journalists and removed the head of its Office of Intelligence and Analysis on Saturday. The removal of the officer from his post came a day after The Washington Post published an article about how the department had collected information on two American journalists who were covering the protests in Portland.

Warren led the @Pacers to a 127-121 win over the @Sixers with a career-high of 53 points, the third-most points scored in a single NBA game in the franchise's history. The Indiana forward is also the first player to make 50 points inside the new NBA bubble.

A mid-air plane collision killed seven people on Friday morning, including Alaska Rep. Gary Knopp, who was the pilot of one of the planes. Officials confirmed that there were no survivors of the crash, which occurred near the airport in Soldotna, a city on the Kenai Peninsula.

The New York Liberty guard and No. 1 pick is expected to miss a month of play after suffering a Grade 3 left ankle sprain on Friday, according to The Athletic's Shams Charania.

The Spanish attacker is due to join Serie A side Roma, but in his last few minutes in a Chelsea shirt, hurt his shoulder badly enough to need oxygen.

Demonstrators marched in Berlin on Saturday in protest of the measures imposed in Germany to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.