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Former Real Madrid president Sanz dies after contracting coronavirus

The then Real Madrid president Lorenzo Sanz addresses a news conference at Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, May 12, 1998. /VCG Former Real Madrid president Lorenzo Sanz, wh

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Former Real Madrid president Sanz dies after contracting coronavirus

The then Real Madrid president Lorenzo Sanz addresses a news conference at Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, May 12, 1998. /VCG Former Real Madrid president Lorenzo Sanz, wh

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Startups Weekly: Investors also face a pandemic reckoning

Billions of dollars have flowed into startup investing this decade, but the era appears to be closing with the coronavirus pandemic. Limited partners are saying no to younger venture firms who are sti

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Original Content podcast: Apple’s ‘Amazing Stories’ is thoroughly unamazing

It’s been two-and-a-half years since the news first broke that Steven Spielberg would be rebooting his ’80s anthology series “Amazing Stories” for Apple’s then-unnamed st

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Here’s a wrap of the main tech-related Coronavirus news in the last 24 hours

Much of the world is waking up to a strange new reality. As the Coronavirus COVID-19 swept across the planet, today may go down in history as the day when huge numbers of countries were largely united

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Nine title contenders for postponed UEFA European Championship

The Henri Delaunay Trophy for champion team of the UEFA European Championship /VCG For first time since its foundation in 1958, the UEFA European Championship will not take place in the same y

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How has the coronavirus pandemic become a new historical divide?

As new confirmed cases of the pandemic novel coronavirus disease surge in the U.S., intellectuals are looking into how the outbreak may bring changes to society in a fundamental way, and expose some

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U.S. airlines call for cash grants in the bailout package

U.S. airlines called for cash grants rather than just tax payer-backed loans from the government on Friday, warning that around 750,000 jobs depend on the airline industry. /VCG U.S. air

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Hong Kong reports 17 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, 273 in total

Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) Saturday reported 17 additional confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 20 preliminary positive cases, most of which had oversea

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New Zealand implements alert system for COVID-19

New Zealand is currently at Alert Level Two in a newly implemented alert system corresponding to COVID-19, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Saturday in an off

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Airlines face reckoning as government help comes with strings attached

Shattered airlines were left counting the cost of government support as countries from the United States to New Zealand set out conditions for bailouts needed to absorb the shock of the coronavirus p

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Hollywood movie studios suspend release of box office data after coronavirus slump

Movie studios Walt Disney and Universal Pictures said on Thursday they were suspending the release of box office data because of the closure of movie theaters in multip

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Across China: Masked smiles in lens of Nepali photographer

Amar Shrestha takes photographs of an elerly doing exercises in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, on March 10, 2020. (Xinhua/Li Mengxin) Speaking Chinese with a Sichuan accent,

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Science Saturday 0321

In this week's Science Saturday, from space exploration to global warming, we take a look at science news making headlines around the world.ExoMars space mission delayed to 2022An ambitious Mars e

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Chinese local gov'ts issue over 1 trln yuan new special bonds

China's local government special bonds worth about 1.02 trillion yuan (about 144 billion U.S. dollars) had been issued as of March 19, according to a report from the C

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Nowruz - In the time of the coronavirus

Nowruz, the Persian New year, is the most festive and joyous holiday for Iranians around the world. Nowruz means 'new day' has been observed for 3,000 years. It marks the first day of Spring and depe

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France reports 12,612 coronavirus infection cases

France has confirmed 12,612 coronavirus infection cases, including 1,297 in intensive care, Director-General of Health Jerome Salomon said on Friday. A total of 450 people have lost their lives to t