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Coronavirus: China football captain donates 500,000 yuan to Wuhan

China's men's football team captain Hao Junmin has followed in the footstep of head coach Li Tie as the 32-year-old veteran donated 500,000 yuan (72,080 U.S. dollars) to support Wuhan's efforts to

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Trump and Putin made this the best week ever for Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech during a ceremony in Jerusalem, January 23, 2020. /AP Photo Editor's note:Andrew Korybko is a Moscow-based American political analys

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Celebrations and disappointment mark divided UK's EU departure

A souvenir store near Parliament Square in London, Britain, January 31, 2020. /Reuters Photo Editor's note:Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate o

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Spain's Health Ministry Confirms First Case of Coronavirus

Spain's Health Ministry announced late on Friday that the western European country had confirmed its first case of the Wuhan coronavirus.In a press statement Friday, th

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Maxar and NASA will demonstrate orbital spacecraft assembly with a new robotic arm

NASA has awarded Maxar an estimated $142 million contract to demonstrate in-orbit spacecraft refueling and assembly of new components using a custom robotic platform in space.The space infrastructure

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Transfer deadline day: Shanghai Shenhua striker Ighalo joins Man Utd

Shanghai Shenhua striker Ighalo dribbles during their FA Cup clash with Shandong Luneng in Shanghai, December 6, 2019. As the transfer window slammed shut on Friday, Manchester United pulled

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Wall Street records worst week in six months

Wall Street's major averages tumbled more than 1.5 percent on Friday, sealing its worst week in six months, as sluggish U.S. economic data, a mixed batch of corporate earnings and the spreading co

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78-year-old patient with severe coronavirus infection discharged

02:23 Lu Jinhuo, one of the oldest coronavirus patients in Hubei, was discharged from hospital on Thursday. The 78-year-old had a severe case of the infection and his health was compli

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Australia-UK trade agreement in place by end of year

Australian Trade Minister Simon Birmingham has declared that a free trade deal with Britain will be struck before the end of 2020.Birmingham told the Australian Financial Review (AFR) that the agricu

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Trump imposes travel restrictions, mandatory quarantines over coronavirus outbreak

The Trump administration on Friday declared the coronavirus a public health emergency in the United States, and announced that certain foreign nationals deemed to pose

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France's Macron calls Brexit "historic warning signal", urges strong European project

French President Emmanuel Macron, in a televised address on Friday, called Britain's departure from the European Union (EU) a "historic warning signal" that must be heard across Europe in order to

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Racing Point F1 team to become Aston Martin in 2021

Racing Point will become the Aston Martin factory Formula One (F1) team from 2021 after their Canadian billionaire owner Lawrence Stroll bought a stake in the ailing British sports-car maker on Fr

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GOP senators seek to acquit Trump without condoning conduct

There is no question, Sen. Lamar Alexander said, that President Donald Trump actions were “inappropriate” when he asked Ukraine’s leader to investigate Democratic rival

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Palestinians protest Trump plan, Gaza militants fire rockets

Palestinians held demonstrations across the region Friday to protest President Donald Trump’s Middle East initiative, while militants in the Gaza Strip fired rockets an

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UN: $76 million needed to fight locust invasion

Gregarious locusts congregate on some ground vegetation at Larisoro village near Archers Post. (Photo by TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images) Theworst locust outbreakthat parts of East Africa ha

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A 'floating wall' in the sea: Greece's answer to the migrant crisis

01:04 Greece wants to install a barrier off the coast of Lesbos in the Aegean Sea to stop migrants and refugees arriving on its shores through Turkey, according to government officials

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Jeff Bezos met FBI investigators in 2019 over alleged Saudi hack

Jeff Bezos met federal investigators in April 2019 after they received information about the alleged hack of the billionaire’s mobile phone by Saudi Arabia, the Guardia