Pedestrians wearing protective masks walk in front of a closed store in Paris, France, March 15, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note: Djoomart Otorbaev is the former Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Repub
Valencia's Goncalo Guedes in action during the Champions League clash with Atalanta at the San Siro Stadium, Milan, February 19, 2020. /VCG Valencia have announced that about 35 percent of the
This week brings another batch of Democratic primaries, this time in Arizona, Florida, Illinois and Ohio. But a lot has changed since Super Tuesday. Lately, a lot changes every hour.In a joint stateme
UN teams around the world are working with national authorities to meet health priorities in the battle against the coronavirus outbreak and address broader social and
Longitudinally tracking in histopathology and chest X-ray. /Figure screenshot from study Researchers discovered that monkeys infected with SARS-CoV-2, known as the new coronavirus, are relativ
Earlier today, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced a shelter-in-place order in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19. The order legally requires people to stay home as much as possible unle
An engineer from Charter, one of the largest phone and internet providers in the U.S., sent an email blast to a senior vice president and hundreds of engineers on Friday.In the email, Nick Wheeler, a
GitHub, the developer repository owned by Microsoft, made a little deal of its own this morning when it bought JavaScript packaging vendor npm for an undisclosed amount.As GitHub CEO Nat Friedman wro
Pop idol Wang Yuan's new fantasy series The Great Ruler released the finale episode on this weekend, making a splash on China's social media platforms.Adapted from novelist Tiancan Dudou's
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin began on Sunday a series of consultations with all parties elected in the parliamentary election before tasking someone with forming th
Researchers from the University of South Australia have found that elderly people who have pets are less likely to take their own lives. In a study published on Monday, researchers surveyed Australi
In a surprise announcement, the U.S. Federal Reserve on Sunday cut its benchmark interest rate by a full percentage point to near zero and pledged to boost its bond ho
An employee of German biopharmaceutical company CureVac, demonstrates research workflow on a vaccine for the COVID-19 disease at a laboratory in Tuebingen, Germany, March 12, 2020. /Reuters Be
By APD writer AliceThe US tech giant Apple has shut down all of its retail stores worldwide, exept those in mainland China until March 27 to prevent the spread of the c
02:03 U.S. airports have been beset with long lines of people rushing to return home from Europe.In Chicago, more than 3,000 people were stuck for hours inside O'Hare airport Saturday.
Editor's note: The decree of the Italian government putting the country under lockdown went into effect on Tuesday, in a bid to prevent the ongoing coronavirus epidemic from spreading. Below is a
Y Combinator said that it may make its Summer 2020 accelerator program entirely virtual, proving that even the world’s premiere accelerator isn’t immune to having its business reshaped by